Alain Rieder

Rob Brown presents a reasonable case. In different personal circumstances, I’d probably have a decent quality & robust kit to cover...

I burry the beater, most of the time.

I’m still working on the layout of my next book, although I decided for another title than the one mentioned previously, and I’m...

As soon as I got my Yamaha 700 series I knew they would be much better than anything I had before. It was about 35 years ago. I wouldn’t...

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To me, she embodied the last of a generation with utterly different reference points compared to today, & carried themselves...

They're both great drummers in their own way. And what they have in common is that they both have played extensively with John Patitucci.

I would recommend my Time Manipulation Drum Book, which is a systematic approach to coordination in a groove context. It’s available in...

The best spurs I know are Yamaha’s.

I had a Fibes set in the 70’s, and the spurs where ok, but you could inadvertently lose them, since they weren’t attached to the drum.

I think that's the one I have had for a long long time !

We don’t learn the alphabet to learn how to speak, we learn it to learn how to write.

Start listening to Frank Zappa’s music.

I was given a TD-15 three years ago, and I’m a Mac user. I quickly found out that Roland had not updated the drivers, so I’m just using...

Years ago, I played in a funk fusion band, and we opened for Chuck Berry. Then Chuck Berry had a really bad band I must say, and he...