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Thursday, September 5, 2019

Jazz Drumming with John Riley














Recently I was excited to come across this trailer for John Riley's latest web-based instructional initiative through onlinelessons.tv:



I've always learned a great deal from John, while taking lessons with him privately over the past ten years as well as working from his excellent books "The Art of Bop Drumming", "Beyond Bop Drumming", "The Jazz Drummer's Workshop"and his DVD "The Master Drummer". John is a great player and a wonderful teacher and I always learn something from him, whether it's from watching him play or benefiting from his extensive experience and tremendous insight as a pedagogue.

Here's what John has to say about his latest project:

"The online course is for Florian Alexandru-Zorn’s platform. Maybe you’re familiar with a great brush DVD he did years ago. I did 4 hour+ courses which are progressive and will be available in October by subscription from onlinelessons.tv.

I discuss the aspects of jazz drumming, demo techniques, discuss philosophy, play with a trio and provide play-along tracks. I’m really happy with the way the lessons came out and the way everything was captured from the sound to the camera work and to the transcriptions of the lesson material."

So make sure to sign up for John's latest offering once it launches later this Fall.

In the meantime, here's an older interview with John to check out from All About Jazz:

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