March Recap: Most popular posts

If you're like me and like to get a lot of information at once, you can check out the top five blog posts of March 2012 right here. These posts had the most visits and page views in the last thirty days.

Is your teacher ripping you off? - Guest blogger Emily Sorensen takes a look at whether you're getting what you're paying for when you take drum or music lessons.


Drummer Feature: Carter Beauford - One of the most influential and unique pop rock drummers of the nineties.


Play drums like a girl! - Who says boys should have all the fun?


Be immature! - Lessons from little kids on how to live life and be better at everything!


Drummer Feature: Peter Erskine - An all-time great. Every aspiring drummer should have this name in their library.

Thank you, blogosphere!

To the audience: I just need to give a sincere shout-out to all who read and contribute to this blog. It took from the first post in October 2010 until December 2011 (yep, about 14 months) to get to 1,000 total site visits. Our next 1,000 (for a total of just over 2,000) took until yesterday.

That means we were able to double our total site visits in under a month. Wow!!

Truly, from every key on my keyboard and every note in my repertoire, thank you. 


As a small token of appreciation, I'm giving away some free stuff. You can enter to win by liking the Facebook page and becoming a member of the blogsite. There's a button that says, "Join this site" up to your left as you read this.

As always, happy drumming!

The Plan - Five Days a Week

All right, ya'll. This blog is growing, and I'm grateful! It has been my goal to get up to posting five days a week. I'm not there yet, but I do have a plan. I'll lay it out below, but I wanted to get my readers' perspective and input.

So let me know what you'd like to see on this blog. In fact, if you want to share your insight or knowledge, I'll also be looking for some guest posts from friends and other musicians and drummers. Let me know if you're up for it.

Here's the plan:

• Mondays: "Gear Up" - All things related to gear. Maintenance, purchasing, cleaning, tuning, repairing, modifying, etc. If it has to do with gear, you'll get it on Monday mornings.
• Tuesdays: "The Weight Room" - Exercises, drills, rudiments, coordination, independence, etc. I hope to share some of the exercises that will develop all parts of your technique so you'll be prepared to tackle all kinds of musical opportunities.
• Wednesday: "Beyond the Kit" - For the most part, these posts will be from outside of the drum set world. It may be percussion or another instrument (or instruments), and a wide variety of styles. Expect weird, but interesting, education.
• Thursday: "The Bag of Tricks" - Every drummer has a toolkit. I'll try to help you fill it up with licks, tricks, kicks, fills and transcriptions that you can immediately apply to your playing. We'll go beyond exercises to actual music.
• Friday: "Friday Features" - I gave you a taste of this a couple of days ago with my nod to Justin Bieber.  On Fridays I'll be giving you my perspective on albums, artists, performances, videos, books, or products that are interesting, ground breaking or just plain awesome. 
• Extras: In addition to the five days a week posts, I'll occasionally throw in random stuff (as if I'm not doing that already) on weekends, holidays or just to substitute for one of the regular posts. This is where I'll also try to fill any requests that I get.

So, that's the plan. I welcome any suggestions or requests, so let me have 'em. 

Happy drumming!