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Articles
Norman has been writing for magazines and journals for over 20 years.
He is currently the Contributing Technology Editor for Drum! Magazine.
Norman also served as the Associate Editor of Technology for Percussive Notes,
the Official Journal of the Percussive Arts Society, from 1991 to 2002.
In the past, Norm has been a featured columnist for Keyboard and EQ Magazines,
as well as a regularly contributing author for Modern Drummer, Rhythm, Drums & Drumming,
and Percussion News.
Individual articles have been published in Home Recording
Newsletter, The Instrumentalist, Percussive Notes Research Edition, Music & Computers,
and Strumenti Musicali.
Click here to view a pdf
file of all published articles with full bibliographic citations.
Click on a linked article below to view it as a pdf.
Article scans up to 2003 provided by the University of Arizona's Learning Technology
Center
2009
• Alesis DM5 Pro Kit
• How to Podcast
• Yamaha DTXtreme III Special
• Beyond 101
2008
• Playing With the Big Boys
• Alternative, Alternative Controllers
• Alesis Trigger IO
• Roland HD-1 V-Drums Lite
• Online Music School
2007
• Spectrasonics RMX
• Live Looping Lives
• SoundTech Lightsnake Cables
• HyperBass Drum Pedal
• Mid-Air Wireless MIDI System
• R.E.T. NS2 Pro Electronic Drum Set
• The Drummer as DJ
• Muse Research Receptor
• NAMM Shuffle
• Alesis DM5 Drum Kit
• Beatnik RA1200P
• Drums On Tap
• Read Rhythms Right Now
2006
• Making Your Own Sonic Paint
• Getting Free Software
• USB MIDI Controller Punchout
• Roland RMP-3 and RMP-5 Rhythm Coaches
• Electronic Drum-Set Buying Guide
• Software Trends: Past, Present, and Future
• New Gear at NAMM
• Audio File Formats Demystified
• Hansenfütz Fütz Pedals
• Biolabs Absynth Research Sounds
2005
• Roland TD-12S V-Drums
• How to Mangle Your Sound
• Yamaha DTXplorer Electronic Drumkit
• HandSonic Highlights
• Roland RT-Kit-1 and TMC-6
• Building Your Own Sample Library
• Gear Crazy - Technology
• Pintech Studio Elite LE
• How To Make It Happen
• Roland PD-20S-BK
2004
• Going All Soft
• Yamaha DTXtreme
• Let's All Get Loopy
• How To Improve Your Drumset Notation
• Digital Multi-Track Recorders Buyer's Guide
• Soundware Roundup
• Yamaha SKRM-100 Subkick
• Learning Electronic Percussion
2003
• How to Make Your Own Video for Peanuts
• Tweaking for Touch
• 10 Tips for Surviving College Auditions
• Roland Electronic Drum Amplifiers
• Making Mick Fleetwood: Total Drumming
2002
• Tips to Make Your Sound Move
• Roland V-Club Electronic Drumkit Review
• Anatomy of a Mixer
2001
• Drum Machine Tips for Teachers
• Electronic Percussion Trouble Shooting
• Way Beyond Beats: Advanced DrumKAT Programming
• Yamaha DTXtreme Review
• Electronic Percussion in the Classroom
• Turn On, Plug In, Groove Out
2000
• Return to Sampler Land: Sampler Basics
• Yamaha DTXpress Review
• Robin Horn: Developing Electronic Drumset
• Steven Raybine: Multi-Dimensional Expression Through Electronics
• Wernick Xylosynth
1999
• Alesis DM Pro
• Boom Theory Spacemuffins
• Yamaha DTX Express
• A Sampling of Samples
• Ask Dr. MIDI
• DrumKAT Notation
1998
• Drum Microphone Buying Guide
• Used Drum Machine Price Guide
• Drumset Cymbal Notation
• Yamaha DTK5L Electronic Latin Percussion System
• Tony Verderosa: Doing It Live
• Drum Tech K2-S
• Computers in Education
• Roland V-Drums
• Five Technical Tips for Triggering
• Musician's Guide to the Internet
1997
• Zen Now
• [Trey Battute] High Tech Skins
• They're Back (DrumKAT Turbo)
1996
• [Trey Battute] A Sampling of Samples
• World Percussion Network Sparks Student's Interest
• Mario DeCiutiis
• CyberSound VS
• What's New on the WPN
• WPN Expands Service for PAS Members
• World Music Menu
1995
• MIDI Charts to Help You Find Your Way
• What's New on the World Percussion Network
• Overture: Macintosh Notation Software
• Percussion Notation
• The Evelyn Glennie Music Library
• Using the World Percussion Network: File Libraries
• Using the World Percussion Network: Forums
• Sybil 3.0
• WPN to the Rescue!
1994
• Introduction to Sending Electronic Mail
• Unisyn-Patch Editor and Librarian
• The World Percussion Network: Past-Present-Future
• Connecting to the WPN for the First Time
• [Trey Battute] Birth of a New Machine
• Guidelines for Drumset Notation
• Il Fraseggio nei Tempi Insoliti
• Loggin On for the First Time
• Bang the Drum
• Tempi Poco Comuni
1993
• Your Guide to the World Percussion Network: Part VII
• Your Guide to the World Percussion Network: Part VI
• Hearing Double
• Phrasing Tips for Less Common Meters
• Ritmi Funk
• Your Guide to the World Percussion Network: Part V
• Good Ol' Rock & Roll - Finding Your Individuality: Part II
• Una Seduta di Campionamento
• Good Ol' Rock & Roll - Individuality: Part I
• The Software Story: Band In A Box
• What's New on the WPN
• Your Guide to the World Percussion Network: Part IV
• Mo' Funk
• Maybe There's More, Then Again, Maybe Not
• La Ballate
• What's New on the WPN
• Future Talk
• Funk, Part One: The Seventies
• Your Guide to the World Percussion Network: Part III
• Suggerimenti Sul Tempo
• A Dream Sampling Session
• Bride of Ballads
• Your Guide to the World Percussion Network-Part II
1992
• Ballads-Part I
• Programmare Ritmi con gli Arpeggiatori
• Your Guide to the World Percussion Network-Part I
• La Funzione Degli Stacchi
• Sampling Your Drum Machine
• Interview with Jeff Krashin
• More Timing Tricks
• Un Salto in Zona Reggae
• Creative Programming Ideas
• Explorations in Arpeggiation
• Drums Fills Revisited
• The Functions of Fills
• Filters-Molding Your Sound With EQ
• A Trip Into the Reggae Zone
• Formal Ideas for Beat Patterns
• What's New on the WPN
• Less is More
• Fun With Percussion
• Programming with Latin Rhythm Instruments, Part I
1991
• Swing, Part II: Fills
• Reading MIDI Implementation Charts
• Swing, Part I: The Basic Pattern
• Programming Tricks for Cymbals, Part II
• The World Percussion Network: On-Line at PASIC 91
• Programming Tricks for Cymbals, Part I
• Industrial Drumming (Man-Machine-Music)
• WPN Questionnaire
• Creative Programming Ideas
• A Visual Window to Tone Production
• In Search of Length, Part II: Rolls
• In Search of Length, Part I: Flams and Ruffs
• The World Percussion Network: The Next Step
• Vertical, Linear, and Independent Drumming
• The Art of Sampling
• Getting Started: Part V
• Understanding the Sample Dump Standard
• Getting Started: Part IV
• Getting Started: Part III
• Drummers On-Line
1990
• Roy Wooten: This is the Future, Man!
• Information, Please...
• The Indigenous Use of Raspers and Ratchets
• The Artist or the Medium?
• Getting Started: Part II
• Aphex Impulse
• Akai XR10
• The World Percussion Network
• Creative Programming Ideas
• Getting Started: Part I
• Material Innovations Electrohat
• The Question Concerning Electronic Percussion
• The Quest for Realism
• Intelligent Music Upbeat 2.0
• sYbil
• Yamaha YX 330 Xylophone
• Polyrhythms: Part 4
• Fault Trees
• Real Drummer Don't Beat Buttons
• Polyrhythms: Part 3
• Electronic Percussion Buyers Guide Part 3
• Polyrhythms: Part 2
• Reading Rhythms: Part 20
• Electronic Percussion Buyers Guide Part 2
• Polyrhythms: Part 1
• Reading Rhythms: Part 19
1989
• Reading Rhythms: Part 18
• MacDrums vs. Different Drummer
• Reading Rhythms: Part 17
• C-ducer Drum Wizard
• Reading Rhythms: Part 16
• If I Only Had a Little Spare Time
• R8 Human Rhythm Composer
• Reading Rhythms: Part 15
• Independence and Santa
• Reading Rhythms: Part 14
• Reading Rhythms: Part 13
• The Akai S950 Sampler
• Great Vibes
• Reading Rhythms: Part 12
• Yamaha D8 Electronic Kit
• Reading Rhythms: Part 11
• Mental Cuing
• Reading Rhythms: Part 10
• Drum Machine Reference Chart
• Reading Rhythms: Part 9
• Electronic Setups
• [Trey Battute] MIDI Percussion Basics
• Reading Rhythms: Part 8
• Sampling Made Simple: Part 3
1988
• Sampling Made Simple: Part 2
• Reading Rhythms: Part 7
• Sampling Made Simple: Part 1
• Reading Rhythms: Part 6
• MIDI Matters: Part 6
• Reading Rhythms: Part 5
• MIDI Matters: Part 5
• Reading Rhythms: Part 4
• MIDI Matters: Part 4
• Reading Rhythms: Part 3
• MIDI Matters: Part 3
• Reading Rhythms: Part 2
• Reading Rhythms: Part 1
• MIDI Matters: Part 2
• MIDI Matters: Part 1
• Custom Creating Your Own Drum Sounds
• The Ultimate Metronome
• The Educational Side of Electronic Drums, Part II
1987
• New Sounds For Your Old Machines
• The Educational Side of Electronic Drums, Part I
• Build a Percussion Storage Cabinet
• A Plain and Simple Introduction to MIDI
• Electronics in Teaching: Part II
• Electronics in Teaching: Part I
1982
• Aztec Percussion Instruments: Their Description and Use Before Cortes
1978
• Removing Rattles from the Bass Drum
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