Dropping a big ol’ stinkbomb in your lap as I prepare to wing off to Europe, here is a thing I’ve been working with, under Jack Dejohnette’s influence. I’ve been working on an extended transcription […]
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Reed interpretations: Billy Higgins-like uptempo method
Here’s a little thing suitable for jazz at fast tempos, resulting in a Billy Higgins-like sound. Billy Higgins at times. He’ll do a lot of unisons between hands, partial spangalangs, and alternating singles. There are […]
Connecting RH lead triplets and 16ths – UPDATED
UPDATE: I added an intermediate step that will help illustrate what’s going on here. Some helper exercises for my right hand lead 16th note method. The stickings for that are irregular, unless you’re relating them […]
Transcription: Al Foster trading 8s
Trading 8s on Inner Glimpse, from McCoy Tyner’s album 4×4, with Al Foster on drums. Tempo is 260, normal burner range, and everyone is slamming. The trading begins at 4:40 in the track: On the […]
Reed tweak: paradiddle inversions – Jack’s option
This is a sticking variation on the 16th note RLLR-LRRL paradiddle inversion system, that was improvised by mistake by one of my students, age 15. We have a different relationship to mistakes on this instrument. […]
Page o’ coordination: jazz waltz with 4:3 – UPDATED
UPDATE: Eh, I decided I didn’t write that page very well. I’ve revised it and posted it below. If you want to get the old one, it’s there, too. A collection of practice patterns exploring […]
Reed tweak – figure on cymbals
Here’s a method for practicing filling in figures, that will work with most Reed systems, and involves accents on both the cymbals and the drums. For the examples we’ll use 8th notes accented to match […]
Cousin Mary
Working with the John Coltrane tune Cousin Mary. I feel about some of his tunes the way Jon Krakauer felt about Mt. Everest— too chunky, too broad of beam, too crudely hewn— and almost as […]
Embellishing the Reed linear system
I call it the Reed linear system, it’s a thing I started doing on my own years ago, using Reed— the book Syncopation. I imagine others do it, because it’s kind of obvious. I never […]
Reed interpretation: RH lead 16ths – swing
A little item I’ve been working with, adapting our familar right hand lead Reed system for 16th notes, giving the rhythms in the book a dotted-8th/16th swing interpretation— as we do with this paradiddle inversion […]
Combining Reed solo systems
Lots of stuff combining Reed systems lately. Here we’re combining some solo systems with similar movements— they’ll have a timing change, and a minor sticking change, the broad movements are the same. They can be […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – On Green Dolphin St.
Here is Jack Dejohnette playing duo with Lee Konitz, on the head of Green Dolphin St., and the first chorus of Konitz’s solo, on Konitz’s album Satori, from 1974. I bought this record in 1988, […]