At long last, here’s that practice loop to go with all the stuff in 7 I’ve been posting of late. This is sampled from the tune Solitaire, from John Zorn’s album O’o, which you should […]
Category: 7/8
RLF pattern in 7/8!!!
UPDATE: I made a couple of small changes which I found helpful in practicing the patterns— in the first set of exercises there are some optional notes in parentheses, and I’ve changed line 6. I’ve […]
Never enough 7/8
Hey, it’s what I’m working on this week. I can’t help it if it’s not especially high-priority. This is an easy Stick Control-based method in 7/8 time. Together with the other pages, including a couple […]
Page o’ coordination: blazing Zorn 7/8
More 7/8, this one specifically for very fast tempos, based on the riff from a tune called Solitaire, from John Zorn’s album O’o. It’s a short, simple, but very challenging vehicle for a drum solo, […]
Paradiddle exercises in 7/8
UPDATE: Man, I am getting sloppy. There were a bunch of typos and duplicate exercises in the original pdf— I’ve updated it, and included some accent variations in the triple paradiddle exercises. Hey, breaking our […]
7/8 rhythms
I got sort of lightly burned at a session recently, when a player pulled up a tune he had written which was in a fast 7/8. I’ve been working on my odd meters quite a […]
Transcription: Ralph Humphrey — Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow
Here’s a nice introduction to rock in drumming in 7: Ralph Humphrey’s part from Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow, from Apostrophe by Frank Zappa. I go way back with this song, to 1974 when I […]
Groove o’ the day: Billy Cobham in 7/8
Today we have another odd-meter Billy Cobham groove from the track “b. Spectrum” from his 1973 album Spectrum: He plays the unaccented notes stronger than is customary today, and puts a light accent on the […]