Well, it took long enough, but I finally have a name for the post-Elvin phase of this coordination series. I don’t expect many people will follow me down this particular rabbit hole, but whatever. This […]
Month: March 2013
Basic 16th note rhythms
Have I ever told you I like using the easy parts of Syncopation? Here’s part 2 of that library piece from the other day, in this case converting the quarter note exercises to 16th notes […]
Got my Chick cymbal
The original, signed by Roy Haynes. The nice thing about Paiste cymbals— most of them— is that when you hear a sound you like, you can duplicate it almost exactly by just buying the same […]
5/4 jazz ostinato with snare drum — 01
Another in the Dahlgren & Fine-esque, post Elvin’s Afro-Waltz series of stuff, here with a slightly more normal jazz ostinato. I keep writing these because I like practicing them, and learning them gets a lot […]
Basic 8th note rhythms
This is a straight library piece— I’ve just transcribed the quarter note exercises from Reed into 8th notes in cut time, which will be more useful to me than the original. This same basic collection […]