Playing With Brushes | Miguel Merino

New Orleans bandleader Kid Ory approached his drummer back in the early 1920s and suggested to him that he ought to try out this new type of brush stick. The drummer incredulously told Ory that playing with those things would be cheating and that he would rather have full dynamic control with his wood sticks.

Though the new wire sticks called brushes did not catch on that day with Warren Baby Dodds, drumming’s first superstar, they would be tried and perfected by such percussion pioneers as Papa Jo Jones, Big Sid Catlet, Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Philly Joe Jones, Denzil Best, Vernel Fournier, Shelly Mann, Ed Thigpen, and continued to this day by artist such as Lewis Nash, Jeff Hamilton, Kenny Washington, Adam Nussbaum, yours truly, and even reaching into Europe with Florian Alexandru-Zorn. I am writing this article to help the beginner as well as pro with some fundamentally sound brush techniques that I have observed and even created over time.


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