Another page o’ coordination in 5/4. From the amount of time we spend dealing with playing in 5, you might get the impression that I think it’s pretty damned important. I really don’t, but it […]
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Transcription: Dougie Wright — La Décadanse
This makes a nice companion piece to the recent Azymuth thing— they’re both pretty cheezy, with a lot of big tom tom fills. The song is La Décadanse, by Serge Gainsbourg. I can’t find a […]
Todd’s methods: Tiki’s 32nds
This is a little loosy-goosy method I improvised yesterday afternoon while practicing along with Maggot Brain, by Funkadelic. There are several medium-tempo, 16th note-based grooves on the record, and the drummer, Tiki Fulwood, tends to […]
Phrases for Chaffee linear patterns: 5/4
Here are some practice phrases for the Gary Chaffee linear patterns, this time in 5/4, in 8th notes, triplets, and 16th notes. I can’t promise I’ve covered every possible combination, but, my God, if you […]
Bass drum variations for Bossa Nova — adding left hand
This is something I’ve been meaning to do for some time. I like the page of bossa nova bass drum variations I did before, but it’s a little difficult to visualize the left hand part […]
Transcription: Ralph Humphrey — Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow
Here’s a nice introduction to rock in drumming in 7: Ralph Humphrey’s part from Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow, from Apostrophe by Frank Zappa. I go way back with this song, to 1974 when I […]
Transcription: Roger Hawkins — Chain of Fools
Let’s see if I can crank this out before running out to see Brian Blade play— along with Kermit Driscoll from the Bill Frisell video below. Let it not be said there’s nothing going on […]
Transcription: Philly Joe Jones — Locomotion
I’ve been working through Philly Joe Jones’s intro on Lomotion, from the Coltrane album Blue Train; a student was given the fairly nutso assignment of learning this verbatim off of YouTube. We worked through it […]
Transcription: Ivan Conti — Linha do Horizonte
OK, I may be really blowing what’s left of my credibility with you guys with this one, but I’ll just have to live with that. This is a goofy little thing with a nice drum […]
Phrases for Chaffee linear patterns: triplets in 3/4
Here is one set of practice phrases for the Gary Chaffee linear patterns, in one or two measures of 3/4, with a triplet rhythm. For the sake of brevity, I’ve given only the two measure […]
Page o’ coordination: in 4/4 — 01
Extending this coordination series a little further, way out there into 4/4. What he have here is a little Elvin Jones-like phrase, ending with an accent on the & of 4, with a space at […]
From the zone: Weckl’s paradiddle-diddles
It took awhile, but I finally stumbled across some old scribbled-out exercises conceivably worth sharing as part of this from the zone series. So far the only person brave enough to submit anything has been […]