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The Drum Theorist's Blog

Concepts, theories, and info for the drummer that wants to think about what they're doing and then ask, "Why?"


The Fulcrum – It’s SCIENCE!
The use of the fulcrum has, to my knowledge, been a greatly examined topic and subject to much experimentation, especially in regards to match grip mechanics (which is what this [...]

Posted on 11 December 2009 | 3:28 pm

The Basketball
I’ve been teaching quite a few younger students lately. Anyone with experience teaching younger drum students has run into the problem of mashing the sticks into the pad or [...]

Posted on 5 November 2009 | 5:05 pm

A quick word on your friendly assistant, “Rebound”
As Obi Wan Kenobi told Luke in Return of the Jedi, “You’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of [...]

Posted on 19 September 2009 | 10:55 pm

Art, Stories, Food, 'n' Stuff

My general blog with an emphasis on comics, art, storytelling, food (because I love food)... and stuff. Anything that peaks my interest.


Good VS Bad – one last (maybe) thought on Leno/O’Brien
There’s this disaster in Haiti that’s making the news. They had a devastating earthquake that will take a lot of time, effort, and money to recover from. So why should [...]

Posted on 23 January 2010 | 2:43 pm

Leno isn’t the villain…
…but he is the sidekick. I don’t know what Jay Leno’s motivation for going along with NBC upcoming late night programming shift, but I do know that going along with it [...]

Posted on 16 January 2010 | 1:58 am

Payday Progress: 1-14-2010
I started working on Payday on what I think is the week of 4-20-2009 (my first post about it was made on 4-24-2009). It’s been my policy to draw for at [...]

Posted on 14 January 2010 | 1:05 pm


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