Some subtractive systems for voicing your snare drum and bass drum in 16ths and partials thereof, in jazz comping. It’s a very common thing, but not usually featured in the normal materials, or included in the regular comping conversation.
Re-re-explaining this “subtractive method” business: we’re voicing the notes of a rhythm to correspond with an underlying 16th note SD/BD pattern. It’s not that hard, look at the page below, or one of the many previous explanations, and figure it out.
To do this while reading out of Syncopation, we’ll need to double the rhythms in the book. Here we’re using line 2 of the well known p. 38 exercise. You can do that on the fly, it’s not difficult.
Here are the patterns used here— stating what we’re doing in words is also helpful. You may do better thinking of it as a verbal rule.
SSBS SSBS – BD on the &, SD on everything else
SSSB SSSB – BD on the a, SD on everything else
SBSS SBSS – BD on the e, SD on everything else
SBSB SBSB – SD on the beat and on the &, BD on es and as.
SSBB SSBB – SD on the 1e, BD on the &a
SBBS SBBS – SD on the 1-a, BD on the e&
You’ll notice a lot of duplication— depending on the rhythm, similar patterns may be played almost exactly the same way. Which is nature’s telling us we don’t need to go that far with doing this with a million different patterns. Focus on learning the end thing, not on going further with the practice room method.
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