Another one of my little photoshop gags— I edited a jpeg of the first page of exercises in Stick Control to follow the logic of the Afro “short bell” pattern*, which has beats 1 and 4 the same, and beats 2 and 3 the almost the same. The page is written in cut time, so each beat is four 8th notes long. Look closely and you’ll see what’s happening:
I got the idea when I was teaching a student that linked Afro 6 page above, and was curious to see how it would play out when written out. I haven’t decided if this is actually worth practicing, but this logical orientation is a real world thing— notice that if you play pattern 1 with your right hand on a cymbal, you’ll get something very close to a partido alto rhythm— and I won’t be surprised if it develops into something creatively useful, with some different stickings.
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