Freehand technique + Burning Down the House

I saw Johnny Rabb on YouTube drumming with Marco M. and Thomas Lang and I was struck by the cool stuff Rabb was doing with 2 snares and small cymbals. So I bought his freehand technique book yesterday and am trying. Normally, I don't go in for specialty stuff like that, but this looks pretty cool and useful.

On an unrelated note, I'm going to introduce "Burning Down the House" to my percussion ensemble today. I volunteer teach drummers at WEJ elementary down the road (my 4th year). Rather than slogging through a written chart, it'll be fun to get them improvising to a cool tune that they probably don't know, but should. There are 3 major chords in the song so I've tuned my acoustic guitar to an open chord and I'm just going to bar them ('cause I can't play guitar). My son Max, who is in the ensemble, will play bass (his normal instrument), Lucas on kit, Katie on piano (also her normal instrument) and the rest on percussion. I'll have to sing a verse or two, yikes, but I'm hoping someone in the school who can sing better than me (shouldn't be difficult) will step up to the plate.

I'll let you know how it goes...