The Book of Intros is coming along nicely, though now it’s in the brutal “not embarrassing myself writing about famous drummer’s playing” phase of construction. I predict it will be ready to purchase by the […]
Month: October 2014
Groove o’ the day: Jorge Rossy calypso
I’ll try to keep these little quicky-posts coming as I work on our Book of Intros, and a couple of other pressing, revenue-generating, writing projects. This is a little calypso groove by Jorge Rossy, on […]
Page o’ coordination: Out Of This World
For all of these POCs I’ve posted, I’ve actually been writing and practicing quite a few more. Here’s one elaborating on one of the very first entries in this series, but with a more advanced […]
Very occasional quote of the day: put in the time
Good career and work advice from comedy writer and actress Amy Poehler: I’m paraphrasing that great quote from (This American Life host) Ira Glass — basically the sentiment of, “Keep doing it, even though all […]
This / not this: what’s a bass drum for?
First, an eerily-passionless video demonstrating the manipulation of a piece of machinery: a pedal mechanism, which is attached to a product called “a bass drum.” We are left to speculate about what purpose these space […]
Grooves o’ the day: two by Frank Butler
This week I’m hard at work on the new Book of Intros (a collection of transcribed jazz drum intros), and it’s forming up nicely. If I don’t get bogged down in the text part, it should […]
Groove o’ the day: Art Blakey afro
This is a triplet Afro feel by Art Blakey, one of the major people playing that feel in a hard bop setting in the late 50s/early 60s. I usually call it a 6/8 feel— some […]
Philly Joe Jones three-beat triplet lick
Following up the Philly Joe Jones drum intro transcription from the other day, here are a few exercises for getting together that three-beat triplet lick we saw there. I’ve included two stickings: alternating, and a paradiddle-diddle […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6 with feet in 3 — 01
Well, I’ve written more of these than anyone should rationally need, but did I ever say this was going to be a rational pursuit? And there are more coming, built on this basic idea of […]
Blogger suboptimal!
By the way: for some reason, the search engine on the site has really been sucking of late, and you should not trust it at all. You may have better luck finding what you’re looking […]
Infrastructure for shooting film
No jive app needed. Hey, if you’ve been letting me rile you up with my film-photography cheerleading, and you want to try your hand at it, here is a general list of things you’ll need […]
Groove o’ the day: Elvin Jones — The Trip
Here’s Elvin Jones playing a groove that should be very familiar if you’ve been following our Page o’ Coordination series: The Trip, by alto saxophonist Art Pepper, from his album of the same title. On the […]