What we have here are some very basic comping ideas based on the so-called (by me only, I’m sure) “Kenny” note— a snare drum punctuation on the & of 1 or the & of 3. […]
Year: 2012
Delecluse revoiced for the drumset
This is a piece a lot of you current or former percussion majors should be familiar with– Etude 4 from Methode de Caisse-Claire by Jacques Delecluse. I’ve made a three limb drumset study out of […]
Playing today…
Off to play at the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival under the St. Johns bridge in Portland this afternoon, with Andrew Durkin’s Proto-Human group. If you’re in Portland, come on down– we hit at 3:45.
Groove o’ the day: Dry Cleaner from Des Moines
Extremely light posting again this week, obviously– there’s just a whole lot going on right now; so until Monday at least you’ll have to amuse yourself by making another pass through our copious archives, or […]
DBMITW: freight train
Several clips of Tony Williams during his early 70’s “freight train from hell” phase: With Stan Getz, along with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke: Continued after the break: With Lifetime: Master of the single […]
Survival chops: accented 8ths
This is never too far from my mind anyway, but playing a salsa gig this weekend it occurred to me how little advanced chops are required in most musical situations. What is usually required is […]
Groove o’ the day: more Mike Clark
Wow, I think that’s the longest we’ve gone without posting since I “revived this sucker somewhat” back in January, 2011. It’s been a very busy week with tour junk, car shopping, and brushing up on […]
Groove o’ the day: Palm Grease
Here’s another hugely famous piece of drumming– one of the best-known of the 70’s– by Mike Clarke on the tune Palm Grease from the Herbie Hancock album Thrust: YouTube audio after the break:
The Kenny Note
As I was listening to the Kenny Clarke record Detroit Jazzmen it jumped out at me that Clarke really favors comping with the snare drum on the & of 1 and/or 3: Get the pdf […]
Transcription: Blue Seven
UPDATE: PDF link working now! I can’t believe I’ve never transcribed this one before. This is a very famous drum solo by Max Roach, on the tune Blue Seven from the album Saxophone Colossus by […]
What records I’m listening to
My original bleak assessment of the future of this feature has mostly played out– I still just listen to the same batch of records over and over for days or weeks at a time. But a […]
VOQOTD: George Marsh on playing odd meters
“[Y]ou don’t have to play the first beat of an odd meter loudly. You have to know where it is, and the musical phrases should flow through the downbeat. Usually that takes playing the downbeat […]