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Features 30 Encore Shudder to Think’s Pony Express Record. by David Jarnstrom 32 Catching Up With… Simon Kirke /// Steve Fidyk /// Bob Pantella 34 Tim Very Owning it with Manchester Orchestra. by Ben Meyer 36 Tal Bergman Joe Bonamassa’s funky, f ery foil. by Robin Tolleson 56 Inf uences Bill Stevenson, punk drumming godhead. by Stephen Bidwell 58 Rudy Royston The bold jazzer makes his solo statement. by Ken Micallef 64 Ryan Brown Tackling Zappa Plays Zappa. by David Brensilver 88 Up & Coming Maya Tuttle of the Colourist. by Adam Budofsky Education Equipment Departments 67 Basics 18 Product Close-Up 8 An Editor’s Overview Power Triplets • Tama Silverstar Cocktail Jam Drumset Highway Star Putting the Roll in Your Rock • CRX Xtreme Brilliant Cymbals by Billy Amendola by Rich Redmond • Cympad Moderator Cymbal Washers • Gibraltar 9600 Series Thrones 11 Readers’ Platform 68 Strictly Technique • Sabian Stick Flip Duple/Triple Single-Diddle Gear Shifters 12 News Part 1: 8th-Note Triplets and 16ths 26 Electronic Review by Bill Bachman Drum Earz DRM-1X In-Ear Monitors 16 It’s Questionable Mind Matters: The Unglamorous 71 Around the World 28 Gearing Up Side of Gigging Samba Starter The Faint’s Part 4: The Mocidade School Clark Baechle 84 Showcase by Adam Osmianski Featuring Drum Market 80 Collector’s Corner 72 Rock ’n’ Jazz Clinic Big Bertha 90 Critique Groove Freedom Part 3: 32nd-Note Patterns 82 New and Notable 94 Backbeats by Mike Johnston 2014 Chicago Drum Show 74 Jazz Drummer’s Workshop 96 Kit of the Month Syncopation Revisited Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Part 5: Afro-Cuban Applications by Steve Fidyk 78 Concepts Artistry Versus Commerce Balance Is Everything by Russ Miller page 81 Over $10,000.00 in Value! 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Sponsored by Modern Drummer Publications, Inc., 271 Route 46 W, H-212, Fairfield, NJ 07004, 973-239-4140. 11. This game subject to the complete Official Rules. For a copy of the complete Official Rules or the winner’s name, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Modern Drummer Publications/THE MIKE JOHNSTON DREAM GIVEAWAY/Official Rules/Winners List, 271 Route 46 W, H-212, Fairfield, NJ 07004. 006_TOC_OCTOBER_ 2014.indd 7 7/24/14 12:24 PM AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Founder MODERN DRUMMER ADVISORY BOARD: Highway Star Ronald Spagnardi Kenny Aronoff, Eddie Bayers, Bill Bruford, Harry Cangany, Dennis DeLucia, Les 1943–2003 DeMerle, Len DiMuzio, Peter Erskine, Vic Firth, Bob Gatzen, Danny Gottlieb, Jim hen I was a teenager in the ’70s, Publisher/CEO Keltner, Paul Leim, Peter Magadini, George Wradio was popular and always Isabel Spagnardi Marsh, Rod Morgenstein, Andy Newmark, breaking new bands. Back then, FM Neil Peart, Steve Smith, Billy Ward, Dave Weckl, Paul Wertico. radio played album cuts—not just the Senior Vice President hits—which really encouraged us to Lori Spagnardi CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: get more deeply into the latest groups. Patrick Berkery, David Ciauro, John Emrich, Vice President Mike Haid, Dr. Asif Khan, Rick Mattingly, Ken And those groups made some of the Kevin W. Kearns Micallef, Mark Parsons, Martin Patmos, Jeff greatest music of all time. I don’t think Potter, Will Romano, Bernie Schallehn, Ilya Stemkovsky, Stephen Styles, Robin Tolleson, it’s just because I came up around Associate Publisher Lauren Vogel Weiss, Paul Wells. then that I believe that period was a Tracy A. Kearns high point in music history; if you ask MODERN DRUMMER magazine (ISSN 0194-4533) is published monthly around, you’ll learn that, today, lots of Editorial Director Adam J. 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