There was a wild night last night— Ari Hoenig played at Portland’s 1905 Club, followed by a jam session, led by Ron Steen— a great drummer and long time jazz community leader in Portland. Several […]
Month: October 2022
Carl Friedberg on touch and technique on the piano
More from Piano Mastery by Harriette Brower— some words on sound and technique at the piano from Carl Friedberg (1872-1955). He was the principal piano instructor at Juilliard in the mid 20th century— Nina Simone […]
16th note exercise for brushes
Another cut and paste item. I don’t practice brushes nearly enough, so yesterday I was hitting that a little bit. Poking around for things I needed to work on, I settled on these pages from […]
Three Camps in 3 – jazz waltz – 01
Continuing the thing from the other day, here are some drum set variations on Three Camps, in 3/4 time, in a jazz waltz feel. I practice this same type of thing using my book Syncopation […]
Daily best music in the world: Wilby Fletcher with McCoy
Here’s what I was talking about the other day, about Wilby Fletcher. At some point plays the cymbal rhythm I discussed. It doesn’t matter, the whole thing is incredibly powerful.
Three Camps in 3
A few practice items coming up. Here’s the traditional rudimental item Three Camps converted into 3/4 time, two different ways— accenting the quarter notes, or accenting the swing dotted half notes. That latter is harder […]
Cinquillodiddles
This one occurred to me thinking about Wilby Fletcher playing with McCoy Tyner… The cinquillo rhythm— I’m calling it that now for ease of reference— is a very useful one measure Latin rhythm, and a common […]
Daily(?) best music in the world: Elvin Jones Trio LIVE
Awesome live recording by one of the greatest trios ever, the Elvin Jones trio with Joe Farrell and Jimmy Garrison. Here they’re playing in Berlin in 1968. Nothing to do here but listen:
Counting compound meters
2025 UPDATE: I haven’t continued using this way of counting, though it’s perfectly servicable. See my counting system overhaul post for details. Recently I’ve begun teaching that way of counting 16th notes in compound meters that […]