Dealing with a lot of small items lately. We know all the big stuff, now we’re getting into how to practice it in a musically natural way, how to fit it naturally into a continuity. If you listened to yesterday’s little playing video, you heard me doing this over and over— it really wore my ears out listening to it, in fact. I was playing some basic jazz interpretations of my tresillo inversion combinations page, one of which was alternating triplets, with accents on the cymbals.
…the normal practice room thing is to deal in full measures, starting on beat 1, and the accents naturally fall on one hand or the other. Here we’re starting in the middle of the measure, always with the right hand. We’re also hoping to end before the 1, also with the right hand.
You get the picture, we’re playing some jazz time, then playing this as a fill, starting on the second note of the phrase— the & of 2 in the first example, on 2 in the second. An option I played with a bit was to leave the left hand accents on the snare drum. You can also play the unaccented notes as double strokes, that happens a couple of times in the video.
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