A few weeks ago we introduced a new term, that is totally made-up by me: skiplet. It refers to the cluster of three notes of the standard jazz ride cymbal pattern starting on beat 2, and on […]
Year: 2014
Generic Latin method for Syncopation: part 1
Here’s a basic method for doing a generic, Afro-Cuban-derived Latin feel using the book Syncopation. We’ll be taking rhythmic patterns out of Reed, and using them as our bell pattern, playing them with the right […]
Transcription: Todd Bishop — Black Monk
This week I was working on something really narcissistic: a transcription of one of my own performances. I was just listening to some of my old rehearsal/gig recordings and thought, hey, I’d like to figure […]
Page o’ coordination: Dannie Richmond-inspired — harder
I need to keep saying this: we do so many of these Pages o’… that a person could get the mistaken impression that I think this is the best way to learn drumming vocabulary. I […]
Very occasional quote of the day: perfection
I used to think about this quote a lot: “I never was interested in how to make a good painting. For many years I was not interested in making a good painting— as one might […]
Mickey Roker on the bass drum
Mickey Roker is kind of an under-appreciated player— by me, too. We often focus on the ultra-modern star-type players, but he was a very hardworking musician in his day, and there’s a lot to learn […]
Yashica D
I had this camera sitting on a shelf for several years, and I finally got it working this summer: a Yashica D, medium-format, twin-lens reflex camera from the late 50s or early 60s. It’s a […]
Groove o’ the day: Mickey Roker Latin
Fantastic, I hadn’t planned it this way, but here’s yet another thing you have to buy— a Latin groove by Mickey Roker, on the tune Woody’n You, on McCoy Tyner’s album Live At Newport: Roker plays […]
Page o’ coordination: Dannie Richmond-inspired
A page o’ coordination inspired by that last Dannie Richmond transcription, with a syncopated cymbal pattern. Are you getting to the point with these that you can anticipate what the left hand parts are going to […]
Transcription: Dannie Richmond — Ugly Beauty
I guess the theme this week is TRANSCRIPTIONS and BUY RECORDS, because this post also does not have a YouTube link. But you can get the album on iTunes, probably from some other online sources. […]
Reed interpretation: fast within slow — alternative sticking
Here’s another set of stickings for that last “fast within slow” Reed interpretation. The major thing we’ll be using is the sixtuplet form of the six stroke roll— or the “Swiss” sixtuplet, as I sometimes […]
Transcription: Paul Motian — Trinkle Tinkle
Oh, look, another transcription with no YouTube video— no worries, though, because as a serious listener, you already own this record. This is Paul Motian’s playing during Bill Frisell’s guitar solo on the tune Trinkle […]