Here’s something from what I’m hoping will be the second volume of books of 100 Grooves, this time dealing with odd meters— we’ll see if I can track down enough interesting things to merit a […]
Year: 2013
Todd’s methods: Tiki’s 32nds
This is a little loosy-goosy method I improvised yesterday afternoon while practicing along with Maggot Brain, by Funkadelic. There are several medium-tempo, 16th note-based grooves on the record, and the drummer, Tiki Fulwood, tends to […]
Phrases for Chaffee linear patterns: 5/4
Here are some practice phrases for the Gary Chaffee linear patterns, this time in 5/4, in 8th notes, triplets, and 16th notes. I can’t promise I’ve covered every possible combination, but, my God, if you […]
Bass drum variations for Bossa Nova — adding left hand
This is something I’ve been meaning to do for some time. I like the page of bossa nova bass drum variations I did before, but it’s a little difficult to visualize the left hand part […]
Transcription: Ralph Humphrey — Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow
Here’s a nice introduction to rock in drumming in 7: Ralph Humphrey’s part from Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow, from Apostrophe by Frank Zappa. I go way back with this song, to 1974 when I […]
DBMITW: wah-wah
Keith Jarrett — Mortgage On My Soul with Paul Motian, and Charlie Haden rocking the wah-wah. We’ll be playing this tune in Seattle this Friday: More after the break: Ornette Coleman — Rock the Clock […]
Breaking down the Chaffee phrases
Since I have a little breather between finishing my taxes, stopping procrastinating about finishing my charts for Friday, practicing, teaching, and writing up a new Drum! contribution that might actually earn me some money (friendly […]
Ballard Jazz Walk next Friday
If you’re in Seattle, hopefully you’re out going to all of the Ballard Jazz Festival events anyway, but my group will be playing at the Salmon Bay Eagles on Friday, at 8pm, as part of […]
Jonathan Winters 1925-2013
The great comedian Jonathan Winters has just died— I guess if his name means anything to you, you probably know about it already. As usual, I have nothing significant to add, but there’s a very […]
Groove o’ the day: Ivan Conti — Questao de Etica
More Brazilian fusion from Ivan Conti, of Azymuth. They really embraced the technology in the early 80’s, so a good amount of their stuff is fairly unlistenable, but the records with real drums on them […]
From the zone: Vinnie’s paradiddle-diddles
With this next entry we’ve got dueling fusion-era paradiddle-diddle licks, this time by Vinnie Colaiuta. This was sent in by fellow blogger Mark Feldman, who transcribed it back in the day from the 1987 Zildjian […]