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John Good Circa 1973 DW’s heritage was the inspiration for the Santa Monica Series™ drum shell. ,WDOOVWDUWHGZLWKSOLHVRIVHOHFW1RUWK$PHULFDQ+DUG5RFN0DSOHÀWWHG with a matching 6 ply reinforcement hoop. The sound was always resonant, focused and incredibly versatile. That sound has been faithfully recaptured by the DW California Custom Shop for a new generation to experience. Customize one today and make it your own, 12 Modern Drummer June 2014 it’ll only get better with age. ©2019 Drum Workshop, Inc. All Rights Reserved. June 2013 Modern Drummer 1 Volume 44 • Number 1 CONTENTS Cover images by Keith Leroux Photoshop composite by Eddie Twist Contents photo by Nicola Ciccarone 36 THE ARISTOCRATS’ MARCO MINNEMANN He makes seemingly impossible techniques appear eff ortless. But he also enchants with songcraft and the alchemy of instrumental interaction. by Mike Haid ON THE COVER 44 SKILLET’S JEN LEDGER 22 KISS’S ERIC SINGER Her drumming journey has taken her It’s the end of an era, as the from Coventry, England, to Kenosha, world’s most notorious Wisconsin, to touring the world with hit rock act takes its fi nal bow. Christian-rock group Skillet. We look back, and forward, by Ilya Stemkovsky with their long-serving timekeeper. 50 GUNNAR OLSEN Bonus: A Kiss drummer timeline Bringing art and craft to YouTube, Bruce by Ilya Stemkovsky Springsteen, and all points between. by Patrick Berkery 62 INFLUENCES: DAVID GARIBALDI The funkster who infl uenced generations of drummers. Bonus Lesson: Classic Tower Beats. by Jeff Potter LESSONS DEPARTMENTS 66 STRICTLY TECHNIQUE 4 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW The Ancient European Rudimental Codex, Part 2 by Claus Hessler The 2020 Modern Drummer Readers Poll: Something New by Adam Budofsky 68 JAZZ DRUMMER’S WORKSHOP Metric Modulation Magic by Mike Alfi eri 6 READERS’ PLATFORM What’s Your Favorite David Garibaldi Track? 70 ROCK PERSPECTIVES Rhythmic Problem Solving by Aaron Edgar 8 OUT NOW Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science’s 74 TEACHER’S FORUM Waiting Game Feedback-Balanced Creative Practice by Marc Dicciani 10 ON TOUR BJ Miller with Health EQUIPMENT 82 CRITIQUE Aquiles Priester DVD and more 14 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP 20 GEARING UP 84 BOOKINGS Zildjian FX Stacks Galactic’s Stanton Moore Bobby Morris’s My Las Vegas Remo External Sub Muff ’l Bass Drum System 60 IN THE STUDIO 86 THE 2019 CHICAGO DRUM SHOW British Drum Company Merlin and Toby Keith’s Dave McAfee Big Softy Snares 88 BACK THROUGH THE STACK 78 NEW AND NOTABLE Roy Haynes, February, 1986 MODERN DRUMMER 2020 READERS POLL The ballot’s open—go to moderndrummer.com/vote EDITOR’S OVERVIEW The 2020 Modern Drummer Founder Ronald Spagnardi Readers Poll: Something New 1943–2003 President/CEO Isabel Spagnardi Senior Vice President Lori Spagnardi his year we’ve made some adjustments to our Tannual Readers Poll at moderndrummer.com, Publisher David Frangioni so if you’ve voted in the past, you’ll notice that Vice President Kevin W. Kearns things look a little diff erent. Associate Publisher Tracy A. Kearns First off , whereas for the past several years Advertising Director Bob Berenson we’ve supplied nominees in each category, for our 2020 Poll we’re putting the process back in Advertising Assistant LaShanda Gibson your hands. Besides the Hall of Fame category Senior Art Director Scott G. Bienstock (we can’t let you have all of the fun, you know), Jim Esposito Editorial Director Adam J. Budofsky you now choose all the nominees. We think Managing Editor Michael Dawson this gives all of us drummers a more accurate idea of who is truly exciting and inspiring us at this particular point in history. This Editor at Large Billy Amendola is actually the way we did things during our fi rst few decades of publication, and it provided a direct line to readers’ feelings that THE MD PRO PANEL/ADVISORY BOARD: Chris Adler, Kenny Aronoff, Eddie we’ve missed during the past few Polls. We hope you appreciate Bayers, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Bill Bruford, Will Calhoun, Terri Lyne our new/old approach, and we’re extremely excited to see who you Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Daniel Glass, Benny choose—and, of course, who tops each category! Greb, Matt Halpern, Horacio Hernandez, Gerald Heyward, Taku Hirano, Susie Speaking of “this particular point in history,” we’ve also made a Ibarra, Jim Keltner, Paul Leim, Peter Magadini, George Marsh, Pat Mastelotto, few changes to our categories, to fully refl ect the multitude of ways Allison Miller, Rod Morgenstein, Andy Newmark, Stephen Perkins, Dafnis Prieto, Rich Redmond, Brian Reitzell, Jim Riley, Antonio Sanchez, Gil Sharone, that we all rate the players and teachers who entertain and educate Chad Smith, Steve Smith, Todd Sucherman, Billy Ward, Kenny us today. 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