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.

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 ...

A core sticking pattern – AKA rudiment – learnt by every drummer, the paradiddle is a particular series of four strokes that can be endlessly useful for embellishing beats and fills. The pattern ...