Hi All,

Saw Tommy Igoe last night at Guitar Center in Canton MI.

Format was
1.  Sit down at the set and blow chops for 15 minutes.
2.  Single Surface Review
3.  Set Review
4.  Blow chops again

As far as topics cevered on single surface they were:
1.  When practicing doubles and tripples on a hand, don't accent the first note.  A lot of people hammer the first note and let the stick rebound.  Practice controling all strokes.   RESPECT the second note.

2.  You practice rudiments so that you don't have to think behind the set.  No one wants to think, they just want to play.

3.  Ruff/Drag.  Ruffs are single strokes.  Drags are double strokes.  

4.  Fulcrum:  Pinch the stick between thumb and index finger.  Do not bend at the wrist.

Applying it to the set
1.  Video tape your self.  he said drumming should look pretty.  You should look like a ballet dancer.  He talked about Kenny Arnof's back beat attacking like a snake, arm goes way up and as the stick comes down the wrist flicks it at the last possible moment.  Like a cobra.

2.  As far as fluidness goes.  he said don't throw away all the single surface practice. it all translates.  

3.  He played a groove from the lion king that was hand based.  Explaining how most of the grooves played are foot based.  (A bass drum beat and 2 +4 on the snare.  It is the bass that determins the beat)  With the hand based beat it is more musical and your indepences accents are with your feet.  Play the bass drum as you would the snare in a foot based beat.

Other things.

he tries to write one exercise a day

just did the DVD with Vic Firth.  said it was for drummers who dont have teachers who want to be well rounded.  Essential Grooves is based on the poster they did but goes into in depth explanations of rock, hiphop/r+b, jazz, and world grooves.  (might have missed some there but you get the idea)

Overall a good clinic.  He didnt have a set plan, he let the audience ask questions and it went where we wanted it to.