Two of these in a row. I’m too occupied with finishing this new book— Rants, vol. 1— now at the critical “done, and it all looks wrong” stage of editing. So I need a few more days of fussing with it.
Another page of Afro 6 stuff, this time with a right hand move to the floor tom. The bell rhythm is slightly simplified to accomodate that— it’s really playing a modified Rumba clave rhythm. Pattern 1 is the plain ostinato played by the right hand and the feet, no left hand at all:
I was doing this with New Breed 2, where the triplet feel stuff also involves a lot of straight 8ths— dotted 8th notes, when written in 6/8 time, like this. Patterns 10-18 deal with that, also in a couple of displaced forms, with the dotted 8ths starting on the second and third partial of the beat.
Learn to play them, then drill them with the left hand moves I summarized in the last post. Where the hands would be in unison on the floor tom, I’d be making a flam out of them. And probably varying the sound of the left on that drum generally, with rim shots, maybe buzz or dead strokes. While going for a full sound with the right hand.