Here’s a short method for getting your Bossa Nova/Samba in 7/4 together. Since it’s not exactly an everyday thing, short is the only way to do it. We’ve discussed before the obvious wrong-seemingness of odd […]
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Transcription: Ed Blackwell — Happy House
UPDATE: Download link is now working! Here is Ed Blackwell playing the head of a fairly well known Ornette Colman tune, Happy House, with the band Old and New Dreams. The beginning of the tune […]
Stick Control patterns in 3/4, with flamacues
Another variation on the recent page of Stick Control-type patterns in 3/4, this time making a flamacue-type construction, with a flam right before the accent: Read the description of the previous variation for some technical […]
Transcription: Airto — Partido Alto
If you’ve been reading the blog regularly, you probably know that partido alto is the name of a rhythm used in Brazilian music. It’s also a style of samba, a funk samba groove, and the […]
Transcription: Airto — Earache My Eye
Cheech & Chong’s Earache My Eye is just an eternal piece of American teenage rock & roll culture, along with Smoke On The Water, Iron Man, Sunshine Of Your Love… like that. On hearing it […]
Stick Control patterns in 3/4, with flams and accents
A little companion to the page of Stone patterns adapted into 3/4, from the other day— here I’ve added some flams and accents to the sticking patterns from that page: Quite a few of the […]
Transcription: Al Foster — Pannonica
Oh, what the hey, hot on the heels of our Frankie Dunlop transcription of Pannonica, here’s Al Foster playing the same tune, the way I like to play it, in the original slow 4. It’s […]
Transcription: Frankie Dunlop — Pannonica
Here’s Frankie Dunlop, playing a walking ballad— maybe it’s a little fast to call it that?— by Thelonious Monk, Pannonica, on the album Criss Cross. I’ve transcribed just the accompaniment for the Charlie Rouse’s saxophone […]
Stone-type exercises in 3/4
Oh, I thought I already shared this. No big woop, just some easy front-of-Stick-Control type exercises written in 3/4: Just play them on the snare drum, or root through the archives and find some drum […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones — Lonnie’s Lament
I’ve transcribed Elvin Jones’s playing during McCoy Tyner’s solo, on Lonnie’s Lament, which you will have just listened to on the John Coltrane album Crescent. It’s medium tempo, with a subdued vibe for much of […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6/8 — “Guiro”
A new POC in 6/8, with a variation on our usual bell pattern, pulled directly from Ed Uribe’s excellent, horrifying, massive book, The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion and Drum Set. The pattern comes from Guiro, […]
Page o’ coordination: basic — 05
Here’s another basic funk/rock page o’ coordination, this time using a series of es and as on the bass drum— to me this exact rhythm is a very 70s thing, and doing it with an […]