A good few lines about time from Robert Glasper, in an interview with Ethan Iverson: People worry about the metronome, “I’m not gonna move, I’m not gonna move!” because that means you are good. If […]
Year: 2017
Bass drum rhythms for pad practice
This is a page of bass drum rhythms I use for pad practice— I have one of those Gibraltar bass drum practice pads I sometimes use. These are good for anything with a running 8th […]
New e-book title: 5 Roy Haynes Solos
Another new transcription e-book available: 5 Roy Haynes Solos Includes transcribed solos from: In Walked Bud Snap Crackle All The Things You Are Reflection Bad News Blues Only In Walked Bud was previously available on […]
A funk sticking in context: RLRLL
Second entry in this little intermediate-level series of funk stickings in context, this time using a five-note idea: RLRLL Learn the first pattern in 5/4, and be able to count out loud along with it— […]
Practice loop: Bill Frisell – Child At Heart
Here’s a loop to practice my hip uptempo rock practice method along with— sampled from the fast portion of Bill Frisell’s Child At Heart, from his album Where In The World, which is one of […]
EZ bass drum workout and double bass developer
Have I not posted this before? This is a variation on my cut time funk method, strictly designed as a bass drum workout. It also makes an excellent double-bass single strokes developer. This should be […]
More Bad News
Comping lesson time— here’s more of that Roy Haynes track Bad News Blues, this time looking at what Roy is playing during the four choruses of the piano solo. The album is Cracklin’, and the […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Bad News Blues
Just a quick little Roy Haynes transcription, from Bad News Blues, from Haynes’s album Cracklin’. It’s short— they play the 12-bar head once before heading into the bass solo— but there are some things to […]
Keith Copeland lesson plan
This is the type of thing I like to share on the blog— a little piece of oral history posted someplace obscure, that could easily be lost, or extremely difficult to find again. This was […]
A funk sticking in context: RLL
This is the first of several easy pages of exercises for developing kind of an essential thing in funk and fusion drumming, which is not quite a fill and not quite a groove— it’s more […]
Clyde died
Clyde Stubblefield Writing appreciations of the recently deceased is not what we are about here, but we can’t really let great drummers pass without notice, either. When I was in school, in the late 80s, […]
Reed method: fast rock – advanced
I hope you— students and teachers— are using my Reed method for playing rock beats. I think it’s one of the better things I’ve come up with— it’s just a more musical way of learning […]