Steve Smith (musician) Time. During the following year, he was voted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. In 2003, his DVD "Steve Smith Drumset Technique – History of the U.S. Beat" was voted the No. 1 Educational DVD of the year. He has worked as a session musician for Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, Elisa, Vasco Rossi, Zucchero, Savage Garden, Bryan Adams, Zakir Hussain and Sandip Burman. Additionally, he has played with jazz musicians such as Steps Ahead, Wadada Leo Smith, Tom Coster, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Liebman, Larry Coryell, Victor Wooten, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Stuart Hamm, Dweezil Zappa,
Sun and moon letters consonant assimilation rule or the shaddah when latinized in Latin-spelled languages. Sometimes the sun and moon rules are not followed in casual speech. E.g. personal name: الرَّحْمَن - Al-Rahman instead of ""Ar-Raḥmān""; geographical name: الْجُمْهُورِيَّةُ التُّونِسِيَّة - Al-Jumhuriyah Al-Tunisiyah instead of ""al-Jumhūrīyatu ’t-Tūnisīyah"". Sun and moon letters In Arabic and Maltese, the consonants are divided into two groups, called the sun letters or solar letters ( ') and moon letters or lunar letters ( '), based on whether they assimilate the letter ' ( ') of a preceding Arabic definite article "al-" (), which is an important general rule used