Recommended Listening

Just a bit of a plug for Leeds Playlist, which I’m really enjoying taking part in – my first playlist (on the assigned theme of ‘colour’) went up this afternoon and I’ve been getting my ears around the other ones up there. It’s serving as a great introduction to things I’ve not listened to before and a nice reminder of things I’d forgotten about! My current fave is @fearfulpenguin’s colours one because she introduced me to Metric and she loves The Hot Puppies. Winner!

Image CC by volantra on Flickr

Fiddle and the Drum

A bit of a plea for help – I’m in the process of conducting a literature search on drum tablature. If anyone knows of any useful resources please let me know!

Anything about how it relates to drum sheet music in the traditional sense, its history, uses, examples, anything really. I’m struggling to find things even using the handy things IAML (UK & Irl) threw my way last week. I have pretty much exhausted every source I can think of, including *spit* Wikipedia.

The reference interview went differently to how I was expecting and had prepared for (I think I was a tad overprepared) and has left me floating about a bit.