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Guy’s cowbell beats

  • March 31, 2024
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A page for a student, age 12, who bought a cowbell, and didn’t know what to do with it. Basically two kinds of beats— basic rock beats, and a kind of Latin-rock beat with a […]

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Rhythm cycles

  • October 30, 2023
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Here’s a page to print out and staplegun to the wall by your drums: a summary of some major practice rhythms, and their inversions. Sometimes you don’t need a readable page, you just need a […]

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Cinquillodiddles

  • October 5, 2022
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This one occurred to me thinking about Wilby Fletcher playing with McCoy Tyner… The cinquillo rhythm— I’m calling it that now for ease of reference— is a very useful one measure Latin rhythm, and a common […]

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Page o’ coordination: Cinquillo

  • March 20, 2019
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Here’s an easy page o’ coordination based on a basic bell rhythm, known in Latin music circles as “cinquillo”— which basically means quintuplet. It’s not a quintuplet, it’s the indicated 5-note rhythm, but that’s what […]

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