 Hello and welcome to the drum history podcast. I am yours Bart van der Zee and today there is no guest it's just gonna be me because it is December 26th right now, and you know, it's the holidays and it's just like one of those things where couldn't really get anyone scheduled and everything Got booked out a couple weeks and instead of just not releasing one I figured I would do kind of a shorter one on an interesting topic Which is Ted Reed who wrote syncopation and there's not a lot of info to constitute a whole episode, but perfect timing to do it here and I got some info online from a Very reliable source that I found and and then I figured maybe we'd talk about some other just drum history stuff that I could update you guys about and Some cool things happening in the future and all that good stuff so this episode about Ted Reed was recommended by Mike Talbot a While back I'm sure and I posted on drumforum.org in July of 2021 and It's just a great place to go to see if there's anyone out there who you know knows information that you really just I just couldn't find anything And I'm I dig pretty deep for all the drum videos and stuff and I really just couldn't find anything Except actually someone else commented and there's this it kind of leads you to think that Ted Reed is this research fellow in the Carlton research unit of innovation Science and environment at Carlton University. I Think that's what I thought too and someone posted that as well and it just doesn't if it physically is not possible with the timing of it because when syncopation was written and When Ted Reed was born, I mean he would be like a hundred fifty years old doing this My math is awful there, but um anyway, so that's not who he is if you Google it that kind of directs you to that But that just isn't who he is so anyway Jda is the username of the gentleman who helped a lot and provided all this information That I'm about to basically just read from him and he asked that his username get used instead of a real name or anything So he's Jda. So most people know what the book syncopation is From when they're learning drums. It's a very just one of those books That's like, you know great for a beginner and also you can find stuff in it to play at any stage of your drumming You know career so the full name is progressive steps to syncopation for the modern drummer by Ted Reed published by Alfred at least at this version that I'm looking at Very famous book and again, it's just you see the guy on the cover Who I believe is looks like he's playing a Gladstone snare drum with a really cool snare stand. That's like Almost like it's for a statue, but So Ted Reed as a person though, let's just here's information that Jda provided born September 6th 1908 in Nesco peck, Pennsylvania Served in the US Air Force during World War two Was a renowned musician who played the drums and as we probably could have guessed was also a drum instructor Which probably was how we put together such a I guess I would say an efficient and like straightforward book So I would look at it early in his career He performed in Wilkes bar with several orchestras conducted by Guy Hall Ralph Paul Eddie Gilligan Ray Calabrese and the Donlan brothers He also played in the 109th Field Artillery Band and the Alexander Band in 1940 he moved to New York City where he performed with several orchestras conducted by Enoch light Vincent Lopez Meyer Davis Lester Lainan Milt Hurth trio and Radio City Music Hall He also played with numerous celebrities including Bob Hope Victor Borg or Borg Sorry, if I'm saying it wrong Buddy Hackett Carol Channing Gordon McCree and Esther Williams. He also worked with NBC TV and W OR Radio in New York City and with Musak Records Corp in 1948 he began teaching drums and rhythm classes at his studio and store in Manhattan, New York City He wrote several drum instruction books from 1951 to 1970 his book syncopation was voted number one by the world drum book critics in 1970 he moved to Clearwater, Florida where he wrote three drum technique books He was a member of Musicians Union local 140 Wilkes bar and local 802 New York City for more than 60 years He was also a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Kingston And he like I said was born in 1908 and he lived until December 20th 1996 so Kind of anti-climactic because that's basically it but That's more information than I've been able to find anywhere else about this, you know amazing drummer and Really talented guy. So he also wrote a bunch of articles as far as I can tell I think he wrote a little bit for modern drummer probably kind of obviously in his later years There are videos that Jda on drumforum.org suspects is Ted Reed playing with Milt Hearth Trio Which I'm going to share those on the description of this so you can click and play them and yeah, that's basically it for Ted Reed I know for me. I was taking lessons with Barry James who was on the show before who became a very good friend who was George Lawrence Stones I Think I believe he's his last living student and Barry's a great guy, but Barry when I started taking lessons with him He sent me a copy of syncopation. He sent me a copy of stick control and I love stick control, but I really I don't know. I felt syncopation worked really well for me and when I was growing up I had a teacher who I thought was kind of original and had these kind of like what looked like hand-drawn Notes and it was you know really easy to read and it was awesome and then it turned out It kind of was just basically the I think he was just copying pages from syncopation Which you know, we've all done we've all copied some pages here and there But yeah, so that's Ted Reed if anyone has any more information then let me know but You know, that's basically it And I guess on that note too now I can just start talking about some random stuff. That's drum history related So thank you again to Mike Talbot for suggesting that which leads me to say that thank you so much to everyone this year As we're wrapping up 2021 Thanks to everyone who has Suggested episodes and I mean, it's a lot of people I would say maybe every third day I get at least a suggestion or two Which is awesome and I am trying to figure out now a better system of keeping track of everything because I Do write down everyone's notes and I have a list on my phone in notes, you know on an iPhone And it works pretty well But it really is easy to lose track of stuff or like someone will say something. That's a great idea And it's like I read it and I mean I'm gonna I'm a human So I read it and I'm like cooking dinner and I'm like, oh man That's an awesome idea and I like forget to write it down or something because again It happens out of 130 episodes over three years So anyway, trying to figure out a better system just to make sure I don't miss anyone And if I did ever miss anyone then I'm sorry and I didn't do it on purpose And I've tried to correct it. I have gone back and retroactively recorded in people's names and just Reuploaded it which you might not have even heard because it wouldn't show up unless you Kind of cleared your browsing history or whatever on your phone and then it would re-download Just because I don't want to leave anyone out. So another thing I wanted to mention too is if anyone out there is like I just think it's a good tip that if you're ever looking for a Certain episode sometimes people say you should do an episode on like Ludwig and I'm like, okay, that's Be sure to go back and look at episode like six or seven or whatever because once you're on 130 episodes it actually gets harder to find the older episodes and In my case a lot of the earlier episodes were like the really specific like Slingerland and the big brands So the tip that I would say is if you go to my website drumhistorypodcast.com Under episodes There's a search bar and I use it to be like did I do that or you know? Let me find some more information or let me send this episode to someone There's a search bar and you can search in you can type in symbols or Like and then and then Sabian, Piste, Istanbul, Agap, like all these different episodes will come up because it'll pull the keyword So if you want Ludwig, tons of episodes will pop up because I think I use the keyword in a lot of it So so anyway, that's just a little trick to just finding these old episodes that I that I think it's good to know because sometimes people use them for research and all that good stuff and Another thing too is obviously a lot of you know this but this year joined up with the drum click podcast network Which is Ben Hilzinger and Chris from big fat snare drum put it together It's been awesome so far Ben is basically finding us advertising which you you there's no way around it You literally to do something for so long that takes so much time. You have to be able to make money at it That's just the way the world works and Ben has been doing a good job of placing ads So whenever you hear an ad on the show, I mean just know it literally like that's what's keeping it going because like The time that you're putting in the show is like time that you're not working or making money doing something else So, you know the drum click podcast network consists of drum candy podcast with Mike Dawson Sarah Hagen backstage, which is awesome. She has a lot of great guests big fat five Which is the podcast with Ben and the big fat snare drum side of things and then the working drummer podcast Which has just a ton of awesome episodes and everyone is super cool. We've been Fortunate enough to I've met most everyone in person. I need to meet Sarah still but besides that everyone else has actually kind of hung out a little bit at the different drum shows and It's just been really cool, and I hope that happens more in 2022 This year, I guess what I all would it be I went to the music city drum show Which was a lot of fun and then I went to pay sick for one day, which I wish it was more but It was just awesome to see everyone and I think we're all ready to get back to Drum shows and just gives us something cool to do. Oh and that the Chicago drum show, which was really cool as well. So Yeah, and I hope to go to more next year and I guess I'm trying to think about other stuff to tell you guys So I went to that Rolling Stones show Thanks to Don McCauley who you know is a great friend and he was he was Charlie Watts drum tech Which Charlie is just you know greatly missed rest in peace to Charlie Watts I was fortunate enough to get a meet him in 2019 and It was different seeing the Stones. I've only that was I've only seen him twice now one with Charlie one with Steve Jordan It was different, but it was awesome. It was just like I was I mean he's an amazing drummer, but it was It was kind of sad I mean for me from meeting Charlie and just the connection with the show and that like once in a lifetime opportunity of like Hanging out with him backstage and getting to go on the stage and like touch his drums And then you know that was like the last tour he was on before he passed away. So it was just different I had fun though. I mean it was let me just preface all that with it. It's always awesome I mean to get such a cool thing. We were down my brother and I were down in the pit I won Spencer who was on episode a hundred here Detroit is really cool The Stones were just awesome. It was great extremely tight I think Steve Jordan just was like there and made it happen and it was like He knew his role was to just play the songs. I think they Did a good job of like Introducing everyone, but it was definitely like the instead of like the four of them going up with their arms around each other It was like the three of them. It wasn't a thing where Steve Jordan's like now. I'm in here It was very tasteful. I'm sure tons of you guys listening have seen it as well And I hope you liked it too. So lots of cool stuff coming up in the future That some episodes get in booked. There's going to be a John Bonham History that is happening very soon. I'm gonna do a episode about get back The Beatles and I guess it's called considered a documentary a movie That was just so cool. I watched it twice Which my wife thinks I'm crazy that I watched it that much, but I'm sure the Beatles fans listening understand it So I'm gonna talk to Gary Astridge about that He got both those episodes actually got postponed a couple weeks and that's sort of Obviously, I'm not saying it's those guys fault, but that sort of pushed me back a little bit. So now I'm doing this solo episode just to get something out there, but I guess last and Not least I just want to thank the patreon members who have joined and it's just been awesome I've been doing those bonus episodes and it's cool to have however many I've always forget it's like 30 or 40 people on there Because it just you kind of forget and then you go. Oh, wow nice an extra X amount of dollars and then also I got to say Thank you to dream symbols. I mean They're just unbelievably they have literally it's just a direct I they tell me what to you know, hey, maybe record something about a symbol bag It's then yeah, okay Go ahead and record a little bit and then I do it and I send them an invoice and they pay me and it just is like I said It's a direct It is literally what is making this possible after this long and actually before I you know forget I want to mention too that I'm I'm working right now on expanding more into The world of YouTube because I've been on there for a while and I just up upload these Episodes just with a still image, which I realized I should probably be doing more videos and pictures and stuff But again, it takes a lot of time So I hit the subscriber amount where you can actually get like monetization On YouTube so I guess just look out for more Content on YouTube. I want to do I'm saying it out loud so I probably need to do it, but I want to do like condensed five-minute video versions of Histories of like Ludwig and Slingerland and I know that's a lot to fit in five minutes But I could then direct to the longer episode, but And also just maybe re-upload some of the episodes with images that go along the way Anyway, other stuff going on. I my wife is pregnant just throwing that out there having a baby boy In May I believe so that's exciting Harry my son is two and he's he's a good boy. He's a two-year-old. There are definitely some some mom. He's he's You know above all a very good good little guy, but man two-year-olds It is it is a thing that is it is real But yeah, and Abby my wife. She's doing well. She's like I said pregnant, which is Tough at times, but she's she's doing great Yeah, just I'm up on the third floor of my house Which doesn't have heater AC up here and no insulation which insulation is gonna be $6,000 I think because COVID so I got to wait and you know, hopefully that comes down But I got a new desk chair here at the drum history, you know Central and I guarantee people have probably heard some creaking of my old chair over the last three years so that will be no more because it's a real actual desk chair that isn't supposed to make noise so Anywho, it's just good to talk to you guys a little more, you know candidly and not be so Specific on an episode like like, you know, things typically are which I which I like for the main episodes But it's nice just to say hey and talk to everyone like normal. So I hope everyone has a great holiday season and 2022 let's hope that everything is getting better It seems like it I just hope it will let's let's believe it at that I think everything will get better and we can all hang out at some drum shows and some concerts In the upcoming year. So again, if this is the first episode you're listening to then this is a probably a weird one to listen to but Thank you very much for the people who have supported the show and who have listened from the beginning And who just send me these emails saying how much they enjoy it It's really cool, and I just love it. I've made some great friends really truly You know both digital and in real life and a mix of digital and in real life, you know one transitions into the other So, yeah, thank you again to Jda for providing all that great information on Ted read And like I said, that's kind of a hopefully that wasn't it, you know let down because there's not really much to it But but that was basically it So if I find out more about him as a person and the biography maybe I'll throw it in somewhere else But you know that's not much there to work with so Yeah, on that note, I hope everyone has a great You know start to 2022 and things will return to normal here in the next week or two with the show and That's it. Thank you for listening If you like this podcast find me on social media at drum history and please share rate and leave a review and let me know Topics that you would like to learn about the future Until next time keep on learning