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Groove o’ the day: Let Me Have It All – Andy Newmark
Nice piece of early 70s funk from Andy Newmark playing on Let Me Have It All by Sly Stone, from Stone’s album Fresh. It’s busy, with a lot of variety, based on a loose idea […]
Jazz patterns for massive repetition
For a younger student of mine. Right now he has a notebook of stuff like the baghad vita, sometimes you need to pare it down for them. This is a small collection of jazz patterns […]
Left-leading density patterns – 01
Continuing this page of left handed rudimental/rudiment-like exercise patterns, getting into some very dense activity, forcing some speedy movement. See this post for the justification for getting into the odd tuplets at all— it’s not […]
Right hand lead quintuplets? For jazz?
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 […]
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 […]