Getting back into Gary Chaffee’s linear materials a little bit— originally outlined in the Time Functioning volume of his Patterns series of books. Since first working on this system as a student, it has been a little problem fitting the patterns into a regular musical phrase. That’s what we do here, write up solutions to things that kind of bugged me 35 years ago.
So here are some fill phrases in 4/4, beginning with a cymbal accent on 1, a double left on the e&, with the linear phrase beginning on the a of the beat. That’s a natural entry.
We have a choice with these: on the phrases ending with two bass drum notes— which makes three in a row including the 1 of the repeat— you can play that as a single 8th notes. That will be more playable for more people.
Once you’ve learned a pattern repetitively, play it as a fill during a regular funk phrase, move your hands around the drums, and have a good time.
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