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Here's my place on the Internet to talk about the art of drumming. To share drumming ideas, grooves, patterns, and stories in hopes giving back some of the drumming inspirations that have moved me over the years. Music and drumming have always been a part of my life, and it never ceases to astound me how much more there is to learn. I hope you enjoy.

Cheers!

Here's the solo I performed which took 1st place at the Guitar Center Drum Offs in 1992. It was the regional competition finals of Southern California at club SPICE in Hollywood, CA, in front of a panel of celebrity judges. As Carmine Appice remembers "he was the one with the cowbells!". What you can't see in this video are those mounted cowbells that were played with the left foot and left hand in the solo...

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