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Check out Export at your local Pearl Dealer and let it all begin for you. CONTENTS Cover and contents Volume 37, Number 11 photos by Alex Solca EDUCATION 54 O the Record Ilan Rubin On the Cover Choice Cuts From Paramore and Exhibit A by Ken Micallef 58 Strictly Technique Chops Builders Hemiolas, Part 2 by Bill Bachman 42 Ray Luzier by Mike Haid 60 In the Pocket The “new” guy? Not so much. In fact, Korn has enjoyed the talents of Funk Drumming Training Camp this supremely hard-working shredster for six years now, and before Part 5: Paradiddle-Based Grooves by Mike Adamo that, David Lee Roth tapped his talents for eight. One thing’s for sure: Luzier’s passion behind the drums is as intense today as it’s ever been. 64 Rock Perspectives Double Bass Workout Part 4: Advanced Grooves by Todd Vinciguerra 12 Update 66 Jazz Drummer’s Workshop Sebadoh’s Bob D’Amico • Sigur Rós’s Orri Páll Dýrason Approaching Standards A Framework for Musical Practice, Part 2: Melody and Form by Steve Fidyk 72 In the Studio 28 Woodshed Dylan Wissing by Joe Gorelick Seeing Sounds Part 5: Specialty Mics by Donny Gruendler At his own Triple Colossal Studios, this New Jersey–based drummer has cranked out tracks for top R&B and pop stars, including Alicia Keys, Drake, and Kanye West. Here, we get a tour of his space and EQUIPMENT walk through a typical recording session. 18 Product Close-Up • Mapex Saturn IV MH Exotic Drumset and Nomad Snare • Paiste Signature Precision Cymbals 30 Encore The Power Station by Ken Micallef An unlikely 1985 alliance between a veteran rock crooner, an • Spaun Tamo Ash Drumset iconic new-wave band, and an R&B drummer par excellence • Gibraltar Lightning Rod Telescoping resulted in one of the heaviest, funkiest albums of the decade. Single-Braced Hi-Hat Stand • Swan Percussion Black Swan • Canopus 8x14 Zelkova Snare Drum 32 Get Good: Backing Soloists by Robin Tolleson 25 Electronic Review Gorilla Ears GX-3B Monitors MD Pro Panelists Kenny Washington and Dafnis Prieto help make one of our toughest drumming challenges a little easier. 26 Gearing Up Pink’s Mark Schulman 34 Steven Drozd 84 New and Notable and Kliph Scurlock by Adam Budofsky The Flaming Lips have always gone about things a bit di erently DEPARTMENTS from everyone else. This month, the group’s dynamic drumming duo shed light on the making of their latest artistic triumph, The Terror. 8 An Editor’s Overview Live the Dream! by Billy Amendola 10 Readers’ Platform 76 First Person Deep listening makes for deep drumming—at least that’s 14 Ask a Pro Kenny Arono , Alan White the argument that drummer and Meinl USA artist relations manager Chris Brewer makes here. Listen up, iTunes junkies! 16 It’s Questionable Mind Matters: Emotional Problems, or Just Quirky? 78 Portraits David Langlois by Michael Parillo 88 Showcase Featuring Drum Market Unless you’re already familiar with this fascinating player, you’ve probably never seen—and de nitely not heard— 96 Critique Taking the Reins the unique percussive world he’s created for himself. Stratospheric rhythms from the salt of the earth. 100 Inside Methods Aquiles Priester 102 Backbeats Muscle Shoals Documentary 92 What Do You Know About...? Frank De Vito by Je Potter 104 Kit of the Month A Journey to Remember “The late ’50s into the ’60s was a golden era—I wasn’t ‘number one,’ but I worked a lot.” The combination of realism and work ethic that the L.A. Will Calhoun’s studio vet convey s with that statement is just the type of attitude that drumset, $ has kept him employed for more than half a century. valued at , WIN 5900pg 91 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Founder MODERN DRUMMER ADVISORY BOARD: Kenny Aronoff, Eddie Bayers, Bill Bruford, Ronald Spagnardi Harry Cangany, Dennis DeLucia, Les Live the Dream! 1943–2003 DeMerle, Len DiMuzio, Peter Erskine, Vic Firth, Bob Gatzen, Danny Gottlieb, Jim Keltner, Paul Leim, Peter Magadini, George t feels like such a short time ago that Publisher/CEO Isabel Spagnardi Marsh, Rod Morgenstein, Andy Newmark, II was wishing MD readers a happy Neil Peart, Steve Smith, Billy Ward, Dave Weckl, Paul Wertico. summer, and here we are already at the Senior Vice President beginning of autumn. Time fl ies when Lori Spagnardi CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: you’re having fun! Patrick Berkery, David Ciauro, John Emrich, Mike Haid, Dr. Asif Khan, Rick Mattingly, Ken I hope you had the chance to get out Vice President Micallef, Mark Parsons, Martin Patmos, Jeff and see a few live shows this summer; Kevin W. Kearns Potter, Will Romano, Bernie Schallehn, Ilya there were certainly some great acts on Stemkovsky, Stephen Styles, Robin Tolleson, Lauren Vogel Weiss, Paul Wells. tour. Look for our Facebook post “What Associate Publisher were your favorite concerts from the past Tracy A. Kearns MODERN DRUMMER magazine (ISSN summer?” and let us know who you dug 0194-4533) is published monthly by Editorial Director MODERN DRUMMER Publications, Inc., the most. Adam J. Budofsky 12 Old Bridge Road, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009. 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