Louie Bellson Smithsonian Interview Block 703 (Q11499)

When I was working for my dad in the music store, I noticed that there wasn't too much material in those days for drums. It was always, here's how you hold the left hand, the right hand. They didn't even talk about matched grip then. It was all conventional grip. So I decided to write some exercises that would help drummers - not only drummers, but brass instrument players and reed players, be ...