This guy’s copy is in a little too good condition for my taste. Following another Twitter conversation begun by Ethan Iverson, I listened to Miles Davis’s album In A Silent Way, always one of my favorites, three […]
Year: 2015
Transcription: Frankie Dunlop — Pannonica
Here’s Frankie Dunlop, playing a walking ballad— maybe it’s a little fast to call it that?— by Thelonious Monk, Pannonica, on the album Criss Cross. I’ve transcribed just the accompaniment for the Charlie Rouse’s saxophone […]
Sharing information: two views
“Those who know don’t tell and those who tell don’t know.” — Timeless wisdom from the East, attributed to Lao-Tzu. “All the pros I know freely share their prime locations, techniques and business practices.” — […]
Triplet bell patterns
Here’s a nice video by a British percussionist, cataloging a whole lot of mostly-folkloric, triplet-based/compound meter, bell patterns from around the world: It’s always good to use caution trusting people’s interpretation and scholarship with these […]
Stone-type exercises in 3/4
Oh, I thought I already shared this. No big woop, just some easy front-of-Stick-Control type exercises written in 3/4: Just play them on the snare drum, or root through the archives and find some drum […]
3½ minutes
Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson had a fun riff going over on the Twitter, which was to find iconic jazz tracks that were basically exactly 3½ minutes long; he was limiting it to music released […]
Two killer drum sets — UPDATED
UPDATE: Both sets have been relisted, with a significant price drop on the Sonors. Don’t make me call these guys and beg them to ship the drums to Portland, and incur some debt I don’t […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones — Lonnie’s Lament
I’ve transcribed Elvin Jones’s playing during McCoy Tyner’s solo, on Lonnie’s Lament, which you will have just listened to on the John Coltrane album Crescent. It’s medium tempo, with a subdued vibe for much of […]
Daily best music in the world: two drummers
The Modern Drummer website has a decent little list of great double-drumming tracks. I was ready to come down on them for not including the Butthole Surfers, but no, there they are— a bold choice for […]
Listening: Coltrane — Crescent
This conversation between Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson, saxophonist Joshua Redman, and composer/bandleader Darcy James Argue, about the John Coltrane albums Crescent, and A Love Supreme, happened on Twitter: Crescent was the first Coltrane album […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6/8 — “Guiro”
A new POC in 6/8, with a variation on our usual bell pattern, pulled directly from Ed Uribe’s excellent, horrifying, massive book, The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion and Drum Set. The pattern comes from Guiro, […]
Groove o’ the day: Bernard Purdie — Funk Down
Here’s a bright proto-disco groove from Bernard Purdie, on the tune Funk Down, from Mongo Santamaria’s Afro-Indio record: The snare drum filler notes on the es happen more regularly, and more emphatically, than notes on […]