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Category: 6/8
Page o’ coordination: “Latin in 3”
“Latin 3” is not a style name you often hear; it’s not a true Cuban/Salsa style that I’m aware of, and is not a super-common Brazilian style. But jazz musicians will call for it occasionally, […]
Practice loop: Eddie Palmieri 6/8
Here’s a loop of an Afro 6/8 groove which I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of, lately. It’s a couple of measures of Pancho’s Seis Por Ocho, from Bamboleate Eddie Palmieri/Cal Tjader. The […]
Triplet bell patterns
Here’s a nice video by a British percussionist, cataloging a whole lot of mostly-folkloric, triplet-based/compound meter, bell patterns from around the world: It’s always good to use caution trusting people’s interpretation and scholarship with these […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6/8 — “Guiro”
A new POC in 6/8, with a variation on our usual bell pattern, pulled directly from Ed Uribe’s excellent, horrifying, massive book, The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion and Drum Set. The pattern comes from Guiro, […]
Snare drum workout in 6/8
I’m all about the one-page workouts these days, so here’s another one, for snare drum, in 6/8. The first goal is just to be able to play each of the patterns individually; probably some of […]
Groove o’ the day: Art Blakey afro
This is a triplet Afro feel by Art Blakey, one of the major people playing that feel in a hard bop setting in the late 50s/early 60s. I usually call it a 6/8 feel— some […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6 with feet in 3 — 01
Well, I’ve written more of these than anyone should rationally need, but did I ever say this was going to be a rational pursuit? And there are more coming, built on this basic idea of […]
Groove o’ the day: Elvin Afro 6
All I can say is, we’re all going to be masters of the 6/8 Afro groove by the time we’re finished here. That’s fine. It’s a lot of fun to play, to listen to, and […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6/8 — a hard one
This is something I wasn’t going to post until I had made decent headway with it; which I have, at the cost of some misery. If you’ve been keeping up with current events, the Afro […]
Straight 8ths within Afro 6/8
I keep feeling like I have to justify doing so much with the Afro 6/8. I’m just working with it a lot, and here we are nothing if not personal and idiosyncratic. I also feel […]
Afro 6/8: a Stone-based method
First, sorry if you want to read about stuff other than this Afro 6/8 thing— you can always do a fresh root-through of our voluminous archives— I happen to be working with this a lot, […]