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	<title>Phillip Ginn: Drum Theorist</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on what drummers play and why.</description>
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		<title>The Fulcrum &#8211; It&#8217;s SCIENCE!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The use of the fulcrum has, to my knowledge, been a greatly examined topic and subject to much experimentation, especially in regards to match grip mechanics (which is what this post deals with).  I&#8217;ve observed more attention being brought to it in the past decade or so, maybe because of my particular environment and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phillipginn.com/drums/index.php/the-fulcrum-its-science</link>
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		<title>The Basketball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been teaching quite a few younger students lately.  Anyone with experience teaching younger drum students has run into the problem of mashing the sticks into the pad or drum.  It&#8217;s a natural problem for young students; it&#8217;s natural for someone to pick up drum sticks for the first time and then bang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick word on your friendly assistant, &#8220;Rebound&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Obi Wan Kenobi told Luke in Return of the Jedi, &#8220;You&#8217;re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.&#8221;
An educated drummer will probably know what is meant when a drum teacher says, &#8220;Let the bounce do the work,&#8221; or, &#8220;Let the rebound do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phillipginn.com/drums/index.php/a-quick-word-on-your-friendly-assistant-rebound</link>
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		<title>That Diddle-Pattern Handfeel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been away for a bit.  I&#8217;m sorry.  I hope that doesn&#8217;t mean you won&#8217;t do me a favor.  Not a huge favor, just a small one, okay?
Play four counts of 16th notes with an accent on each downbeat, starting on the right hand.
Done?  Cool.  Now, play the exact same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phillipginn.com/drums/index.php/that-diddle-pattern-handfeel</link>
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		<title>Teaching, Teching, and Instructing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve tried writing something about this topic 4 or 5 times by now.  It&#8217;s a tricky subject and one I think about a lot.  After all, the goal is to pass on knowledge and wisdom to the students, right?  As an added bonus, teaching helps one to understand and perform his or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phillipginn.com/drums/index.php/teaching-teching-and-instructing</link>
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		<title>Drum Corps and Electronics? BOO!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little Op/Ed piece, since I just had a drum corps weekend and witnessed quite a few things, both good and bad.
This particular piece of writing is going to touch on the rising trend of electronics in drum corps and, for that matter, indoor percussion ensembles.
First, let me get this off my chest in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phillipginn.com/drums/index.php/drum-corps-and-electronics-boo</link>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Need To Play On A Drum To Be A Drummer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got out of the car about 7:30 last night and heard someone playing his drum set.
Oh&#8230; we live in a condo, by the way.
It didn&#8217;t bother my wife and me because we live on the other end of the building so we didn&#8217;t really hear it unless we were actually listening for it, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phillipginn.com/drums/index.php/you-dont-need-to-play-on-a-drum-to-be-a-drummer</link>
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		<title>Technique First, Chops Second</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure it was my age-out year of drum corps.  I was walking across the gym at our housing site with my instructor/mentor/friend/boss, talking about&#8230; drums, probably&#8230; and we passed by one of my fellow snare players ramming beats on his pad.  We asked him what he was doing and he said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phillipginn.com/drums/index.php/technique-first-chops-second</link>
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		<title>The Final Say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;With great power there must also come great responsibility.&#8221;
-Ben Parker, from the pages of Amazing Fantasy 15


That&#8217;s right.  I made a Spider-Man reference.  Because it&#8217;s pertinent.  
You, the drummer, are the final say when you perform with an ensemble.  You are the final, deciding factor in how a piece feels, how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://phillipginn.com/drums/index.php/the-final-say</link>
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		<title>How To Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, after a drumline rehearsal, one of the students was sitting on the floor practicing a piece of music.  She wanted to audition for a snare spot pretty badly and her chances were incredibly slim.  My friend, the caption head of this particular drumline, told her she basically had one chance to [...]]]></description>
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