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Orchestrated two-bar descending and ascending (toms) drum patterns (with a cowbell chorus)…

Recorded at Mixmasters Studio sessions for Pete Langman as mentioned earlier this week. This is the acoustic sound of the drums as would...

Love the sessions at Butcherbird Collective…

Love the sessions at Butcherbird Collective…always focusing on tone and texture to create the perfect ‘feel’. In this case using ‘hot...

The Art of drumming

Laying down a heavily-layered Afrobeat (Afrofunk) variation in the tradition of its’ progenitor, Tony Allen (drummer with Nigerian legend...

Creating tension and release through the solo section…it’s all about that steady back-beat

Working overtime with a heavily layered groove… multiple ghost notes on the snare, left-foot high-hat on the +’s (through the fills...

The ‘Art’ of studio recording.

Creating texture and tone with a deftness of touch playing a linear brush & x-stick pattern (think Charlie Watts) on the snare supported...

The sublime music of the late great John Baker….so missed.

John was a mentor of the highest order in his The Baker Suite and definitely a highlight of my career. Texture, subtlety, intensity,...