A set of practice loops for one of my students— faster tempos, maybe challenging rhythms, that encourage some improvising. Check out the other recent pages of embedded loops as well. Eddie Palmieri / Cal Tjader […]
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Jazz loops embedded – slow tempos
Some good slower tempo jazz practice loops. All maintain a pretty consistent triplet feel, no one’s double timing his cymbal beat. Forms on most of these are 12 bar blues, except Stella By Starlight is […]
Funk loops embedded – 01
Continuing to post some of my favorite practice loops, here are some slower tempo selections from my funk folder. Also check out my rock loops I already posted. Betty Davis – If I’m In Luck […]
Rock loops embedded – 01
I realized that with this new wonderful WordPress platform, I can embed audio directly in the posts. So here are several of the rock loops my students use most. They’re set to loop, so you […]
Practice loops: latest batch of favorites
All right, here is another collection of practice loops— favorites that I use fairly frequently, that will be friendly to the greatest number of people. The last complete archive I posted has a lot in […]
Updated rock loops
Here is a link for my updated collection of rock loops, which I put together for one of my students. These should be easy for most people to play along with— no weird rhythms or […]
Limitations of loops
There’s a good post about playing along with recordings, that everyone should read, over at Ted Warren’s Trap’d blog. Since he commented about playing with loops vs. whole tunes— and I do a lot with […]
Organizing practice loops
UPDATE: Download links are working now! My archive of sampled practice loops has gotten so big that it’s become kind of unmanageable, so I’ve organized them into categories. Here are the first three new zips […]
Listening and loops for jazz students
For my jazz students, here is a list of much loved, mainstream, historically important recordings to listen to in your first few years of learning. I’m also in the process of updating the practice loop […]
Practice loops: two McCoy loops
A couple of practice loops sampled from McCoy Tyner. The first is from Reaching Fourth; it’s the vamp from Old Devil Moon, and at 142 bpm it’s a nice medium tempo, good for working on […]
Make your own practice loops
I have a saying: Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day; teach a man to fish, and you shift the burden away from yourself and wash your hands of all responsibility when he […]
Sampled play-along loops
This is something I’ve been doing lately- making play-along loops from drumless parts (usually intros) of favorite tracks. My attorney tells me this is of dubious legality distrubution-wise, but until I receive a cease-and-desist letter […]