I’ve been working with Elvin’s waltz daily since I first posted about it, and have been getting great results- and not just with playing this particular type of feel. So let’s keep developing it. It […]
Year: 2012
How to play the brushes
Now we’re talking- here’s something substantial for you: I was able to shame Ted @ Trap’d into finally labelling his posts, and now I can link to his entire great series on playing the brushes. […]
Your own drumming blog: useful skills
I’m determined to follow my own instructions in the previous entry and tackle this starting-a-drumming-blog series in manageable pieces. Blogger’s interface has actually made doing the work very nearly idiot(?)-proof but maybe this will help […]
DBMITW: with a big hat tip to Chip Stern
I just got a couple of nice notes from drummer and writer Chip Stern (Modern Drummer, Jazz Times)- he’s made a bunch of big contributions to the literature of drumming, including an interview with Papa […]
HFS, part two
Last time I was moved to so eloquent a title I had just received the massive Paiste 22″ 602 dark ride; today I received a massive library of 180+ dense pages in three volumes by […]
Your own drumming blog: general practices
Three easy steps, followed by a bunch of other steps. A lot of new drumming blogs have been cropping up recently, which suggests to me that there are even more people thinking about starting blogging, […]
Inversions of Three Camps
So I have basically a one-track mind. Maybe a two-track mind. Three closely-related tracks. Right now it’s all the Elvin waltz and Three Camps. What we have here is a little thing I improvised while […]
Observations about the volume of things
One of the things on my mind a lot lately has been the issue of projection- making your performance be heard clearly by the other musicians and by the audience. While performing and hanging at […]
Three Camps round up
I recently picked up a stack of Mitchell Peters books, one of which contains several variations on this classic, and it seemed like a good time to round up the various sources and variations on […]
DBMITW: Cecil Taylor
Here’s another old free jazz favorite from my LP stacks. Andrew Cyrille is on drums. And the title (CONQUISTADOR!) has an exclamation point, which I like.
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Out of this World
Here’s another example of Elvin Jones’ “afro-waltz”– as I keep calling it- from the intro of the tune Out of this World, from the John Coltrane album Coltrane: The dotted-8th/16th rhythm you see a couple […]
Developing Elvin’s Afro-Waltz, part 2
I’ve been doing a lot of this sort of thing in my own practicing lately- practicing snare drum variations vs. a cymbal/hihat/bass drum ostinato, via Dahlgren & Fine, and my own materials. Ralph Humphrey’s Even […]