 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Percussion in the News. So today we have a really cool one. We're looking at a Gene Krupa advertisement that was in the Daily News in New York City in 1938. This is basically an ad for Gene Krupa's drum book that he was selling then, Gene Krupa's Drum Method. So it says, Gene Krupa, the king of swing drummers will teach you to play the drums. Just off the press, the first and most complete course of lessons on modern drumming ever given. By having Gene Krupa himself sitting at your elbow, taking you through the practice pad, rim shots, cymbal breaks, bass drum beats, hi-hat cymbals, wire brush, and tom-toms. You don't need drums to learn. Send today for Gene Krupa's drum method. A $1.50 brings you the entire course from Robbins Music Corporation and then it has the address in New York City below. And then it says in its own little box here, a $1.50 and a pair of drumsticks is all you need. So if we look in the corner here, there's some really cool illustrations that show kind of what you're going to be learning. The Krupa method in the book, it says page 23 downstroke with your left hand, page 24 downstroke with your right hand. Then it says page 71 where it's showing kind of a technique where it's like the stick is almost backwards. So I'm not 100% sure what's happening on that one. And then page 70 is brushes. Really cool. This is just a great one from 1938. Gene would have been about 30 years old because he was born in 1909. So a huge star at the time, really in his prime, he went on to live until 1973. And he was a movie star and music star and just a jazz icon. So I want to thank my friend, Jerry Reiman for putting this together, this percussion in the news. This is the binder full of these articles where I'm getting them. I've got sticky notes going through. These are all different brands like Zildjian and Ludwig and Leedy and Gretch and kind of oddball ones, but tons of stuff in here to still talk about. So thank you for watching this episode of Percussion in the News. Check back for new episodes on Thursdays and the podcast comes out on Tuesdays and thanks for checking it out. We'll see you on the next one.