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2017 MD READERS POLL—VOTING’S OPEN! THE WORLD’S #1 DRUM MAGAZINE WIN A $6,000 TAMA/MEINL IMPROVE PACKAGE YOUR PRACTICE SANTANA’s MICHAEL SHRIEVE RalphRalph PetersonPeterson StillStill Stunnin�Stunnin� HOW A JAZZ SURVIVOR BEAT BACK THE DEMONS AND TRIUMPHED DECEMBER 2016 + PLUS + JOHNNY CRAVIOTTO REMEMBERED • ARGENT’S BOB HENRIT CALLE 13’S ISMAEL CANCEL • BRITISH HITMAKER ASH SOAN GRETSCH, CANOPUS, ZILDJIAN, AND TAMA REVIEWED mfg U.S.A. 12 Modern Drummer June 2014 MCD Chain Drive Pedal Ad- 2016 (MD).indd 1 7/25/16 3:18 PM ™ Stage or Studio Audix is the pioneer of application-specific microphones for drums and percussion. The result, award-winning microphones which perfectly balance tone and attack across your entire kit. Photo of Anthony Jones, Pink Martini Audix. Today’s Mic. audixusa.com ©2016 Audix Corporation All Rights Reserved. Audix and the Audix Logo are trademarks of Audix Corporation. D2 D4 D6 ADX51 i5 ™ Stage or Studio Audix is the pioneer of application-specific microphones for drums and percussion. The result, award-winning microphones which perfectly balance tone and attack across your entire kit. Photo of Anthony Jones, Pink Martini Audix. Today’s Mic. audixusa.com ©2016 Audix Corporation All Rights Reserved. Audix and the Audix Logo are trademarks of Audix Corporation. D2 D4 D6 ADX51 i5 INTRODUCING MAPLE COMPLETE The thin shell 100% maple drums you’ve been waiting for. Jen Ledger ROBERT DOWNS PHOTOGRAPHY DOWNS ROBERT Masters Maple Complete features our all new EvenPly-Six Shell configuration providing six ultra thin .9mm plies of cross laminated pristine Maple. This is the lightest, most resonant and affordable Masters Series ever. Shell packs start at just $1349. INTRODUCING MAPLE COMPLETE The thin shell 100% maple drums you’ve been waiting for. Jen Ledger ROBERT DOWNS PHOTOGRAPHY DOWNS ROBERT Masters Maple Complete features our all new EvenPly-Six Shell configuration providing six ultra thin .9mm plies of cross laminated pristine Maple. This is the lightest, most resonant and affordable Masters Series ever. Shell packs start at just $1349. CONTENTS Volume 40 • Number 12 34 On the Cover Ralph Peterson “I’m a better player. My energy is used to uplift the people I play with now, instead of beating them down in some testosterone-induced display of musical machismo.” The jazz drummer and educator was chuckling as he said those words, but there’s a seriousness between the lines that tells of hard battles, and sweet successes. by Ken Micallef Cover and Contents photos by Paul La Raia FEATURES 18 THE 2017 MODERN DRUMMER READERS POLL Cast your vote in the drumming world’s most prestigious ballot! 22 Catching Up With…JERRY MAROTTA and 56 WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT…BOB HENRIT? BILLY FICCA That’s him playing the oddball, contagious beat on Argent’s perennial FM fave, “Hold Your Head Up.” But it’s 46 MICHAEL SHRIEVE. At twenty, Santana’s “classic just the tip of the iceberg. lineup” drummer cut an image at Woodstock that still by Will Romano de nes the era. But the past is the past…or is it? by Je Potter 60 SETTING SIGHTS: ISMAEL CANCEL. While the world-renowned Puerto Rican group Calle 13 takes a 50 ASH SOAN. The highly in-demand British drummer breather, its drummer explores the unknown with never takes his eye o the singer, or the song. singer iLe. by Robin Tolleson by Ilya Stemkovsky Red Mist EDUCATION EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENTS 66 Teacher’s Forum 26 Product Close-Up 8 An Editor’s Overview More Eff ective Learning Gretsch Renown RN2 Drumset and Tell Them How Good You Are… Improving Practice Skills, Memory, Full Range Hammered Black by Adam Budofsky and Drumming Steel Snare by Marc Dicciani Zildjian Avedis Series Cymbals 10 Readers’ Platform Canopus Yaiba II Maple, Yaiba II Birch, Favorite Drum Shells 68 Basics and Black-Nickel Brass Snares Fundamental Fills, Tama Iron Cobra and 14 News 100% BIRCH Part 5: Six-Stroke Stickings Speed Cobra Pedals On Tour with the Pretty Reckless and by Donny Gruendler John Brown’s Body, new albums by BEST OF Three GIVEAWAY! 62 Gearing Up Blonde Redhead and Dance Gavin ...STRAIGHT FROM THE LAB 70 Strictly Technique Fear Factory’s Mike Heller Dance, and more The new Unity Birch drum kit from that produces a satisfying, resonant One-Two-Threes Exercises for Control 78 New and Notable 16 It’s Questionable Sound Percussion Labs starts with tone while keeping all of its attack by Bill Bachman Mind Matters: Playing in a Band or Solo? all-birch shells for exceptional and punch, and all under $500. by Bernie Schallehn tone, and then adds SPL’s new Includes chrome plated, double- 71 JazzTAMA, MEINL, Drummer’s & Modern Drummer are Workshop offeringRhythmic one lucky winner Conversions their choice of OPTION 1 Enter to win one of three 80 Showcase Arch-Tech™ bearing edge one of these new Retro finish Limited Edition 4pc 14x22˝BD limited edition Starclassic design braced stands, chain drive pedal, Performer B/B kit complete with hardware StarclassicPart Performer 3: B/BHalf-Note kits. 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One Red Mist 100% BIRCH ...STRAIGHT FROM THE LAB The new Unity Birch drum kit from that produces a satisfying, resonant Sound Percussion Labs starts with tone while keeping all of its attack all-birch shells for exceptional and punch, and all under $500. tone, and then adds SPL’s new Includes chrome plated, double- Arch-Tech™ bearing edge design braced stands, chain drive pedal, Black Mist for a warmer, richer sound and easier cymbals and throne. Check one out tuning. You’ll also find a matching, today, and experience the new SPL solid wood bass drum hoop and — straight from the lab. world-renowned Remo heads. The result is a complete, 5-piece drum kit Available exclusively at: Silver Mist 1612_MD_100percentBirch_From_The_Lab.indd 1 8/31/16 9:43 AM AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Founder Senior Art Director “Best service I’ve received from ANY store!” Tell Them How Good Ronald Spagnardi Scott G. Bienstock 1943–2003 Robby, Vista, CA Editorial Director You Are… Publisher/CEO Adam J. Budofsky Isabel Spagnardi he second part of that title is Managing Editor Senior Vice President Michael Dawson …Just Be Cool About It. T Lori Spagnardi Make what you will of this, but I’ve Associate Editor always viewed much of life through Vice President Willie Rose cool-colored glasses. Blame it on Kevin W. Kearns Clyde. Walt “Clyde” Frazier was the Editor at Large included stand not stand, and hi-hat Kick pedal, snare Associate Publisher Billy Amendola super-smooth NBA guard who, in Tracy A.