Some things I do when practicing these recent Chaffee linear phrases, or any of the rest of them, beyond playing them as written. First, at faster tempos, the ones ending with two bass drum notes […]
Month: July 2024
New Breed tweak – left hand cymbal accents
Getting through a single system from The New Breed takes some time, longer than I want to have one hand be basically idle, playing just the 2 and 4. Let’s give it more to do. […]
Chaffee-esque right hand lead stickings
Lots of quasi-Chaffee activity lately, getting into a sticking system derived from his— as covered in his books Odd Time Stickings and Patterns vol. 2 – Stickings. Similar to his linear system, his sticking system […]
Tailoring the game to your talents
An extended quote from the book Moneyball, about the baseball player Scott Hatteberg, and his approach to hitting, and his experiences with the lavishly funded Boston Red Sox and the meagerly funded Oakland As organizations: […]
Transcription: Jeff Watts – Housed From Edward – 02
Part two of Branford Marsalis’s Housed From Edward, from the album Trio Jeepy, with Jeff Watts on drums. Let’s do the whole thing. This begins at the top of Marsalis’s solo, at 1:27. Most of […]
Embellishing Chaffee
This is why I can’t get anything done, when I sit down to practice somethingpractice something I’ll get two patterns in, and get involved in developing them as playing ideas, working out how to use […]
Transcription: Jeff Watts – Housed From Edward – 01
Trio Jeepy by Branford Marsalis is a long time favorite album of mine, that was very influential on my concept of jazz. It’s got Jeff Watts on drums and Milt Hinton on bass. This tune Housed […]
Playing Bellson
Here’s a video I made yesterday— there was a slight online mishegoss over me not liking the Reading Text In 4/4, by Louis Bellson, and it was requested that prove myself by playing one of […]
Chaffee linear phrases – beginning with LH double
Getting back into Gary Chaffee’s linear materials a little bit— originally outlined in the Time Functioning volume of his Patterns series of books. Since first working on this system as a student, it has been a […]
Reed tweak: RH lead with single cym / flam
Yet another right hand lead Reed tweak— YART, or YARHLRT, for short. It’s a little convoluted, but works out a slightly different thing from the other systems/tweaks we’ve done, and I think it’s worthwhile. The […]
You should get drum lessons from me
Making my periodic public observance that I don’t get enough drum students through this site. I know everybody doesn’t instantly get everything I post on here. And I know people are overloaded with information about […]