As I’m drumming away, I’ll ask myself, “Why do I play the bass drum on this beat?” Because it’s always played there? Actually, it may sound better if I change it up, so I try altering the rhythm.

We all know the humble paradiddle - it’s part of most drummers' first lessons, mixing up singles and doubles for one of the most useful and versatile stickings we’re likely to learn. “But paradiddles ...

Since the pandemic burst upon the world, my colleagues in health care and biotech and other industries have been moving around the sequences; patterns and rhythms scrambled by Covid-19 have shifted ...