Madness is the first track I heard on the first Miles Davis record I actually went and bought- before that I just had the old copy of Kind of Blue from my dad’s record collection. […]
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Matt’s paradiddle thing, pt. 2
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been working a bunch with the paradiddle page I wrote up for my student Matt F, usually combining single repetitions of each exercise, as described in the post. Last night I […]
Stanley’s Page of Bossa Nova
Here is a page of basic Bossa Nova patterns, which I wrote up for a couple of my students. I’ve included the standard pattern that will be familiar to a lot of people, a Partido […]
Transcription: Jim Gordon – Apostrophé
Here’s Jim Gordon’s drum break from the title track of Apostrophé by Frank Zappa. The tune is a jam with Zappa and Cream bassist Jack Bruce. This is actually one of the first things I […]
Transcription: Andy Newmark – Anticipation
This is kind of a remarkable track by Andy Newmark, Anticipation by Carly Simon, one of the first and biggest hits he played on. It’s an easy thing to dismiss— if you’re over about 40 […]
Stick Control expander – Rhythm, part 1
One of the things I’m working on getting together is an array of stuff to do with Stick Control, that do not make more sense to do by the melody-interpreting Reed/Syncopation method. I know that […]
Transcription: Mocidade tamborims, 2009
Here’s something I did for my own benefit, which may or may not be of interest to my regular readers. I picked up and have been fooling around with a Pearl bass drum-mounted tamborim (CSD! […]
Todd’s methods: bongo beat
Here’s an easy system I developed for playing a generic Latin feel very bright tempos: A few notes there weren’t room for on the pdf: – Can be played very fast and very light. – […]
Sixtuplet plus release
This is something that came up in my practicing yesterday, and I went ahead and scribbled out a page of it for you. These sound good fast, but it’s also a good idea to ask […]
Transcription: Ringo Starr – God
Here’s a nice little catalog of compound meter fills by Ringo Starr, playing on the acoustic, Anthology version of God. Reading Andy Newmark’s interview got me in the mood for some Jim Keltner, which I […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – In Walked Bud
To make up for the exceptionally light posting this week, and to follow up the Roy Haynes transcription round-up, here’s an extra special solo from In Walked Bud, on Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso, which I first […]
Syncopation exercise – Solar
No big woop here, I just happened to need a fairly sparse syncopation exercise, so I wrote this up quickly, and I thought I’d share it. It’s based on the tune Solar, by Miles Davis. […]