Another original syncopation exercise. The last one had single notes, spaced one or two 8th notes apart. This one has one or two notes in a row, one or two 8ths apart. Both are really […]
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Syncopation exercise – singles, 2-3 8th intervals
Let’s start a little series here: some full page syncopation exercises, each designed for a special purpose. Good for fluency and ease of practice with certain practice methods, good for a particular challenge with others. […]
Page o’ coordination: Tekufah rhythm
Page o’ coordination using the rhythm from the bass line on Tekufah, a John Zorn tune from which I recently made a practice loop. The cymbal rhythm is actually an inversion or mode of the […]
Hemiola funk series – beginner sheet
Continuing to develop a method for this hemiola funk idea. Please forgive the repetition— when this is a finished method, I’ll release it as an e-book. In the mean time, I’ll be posting a lot […]
Page o’ coordination: basic 6/4
The first of three pages of fundamentals to go with that John Zorn loop from the other day. These POCs are a major part of my output right now, which is a little bit misleading— […]
Page o’ coordination: cut time funk / fusion cymbal rhythm
A Page o’ Coordination for getting together basic funk coordination using a common fusion cymbal rhythm, that comes from Latin drumming— it’s also the jazz cymbal rhythm, not swung. The rhythm is difficult enough for […]
Basic drum set coordination – 01 – alternating
A page for teachers, for beginning through intermediate level students. I want them to have total clarity on what it feels like to play all the major limbs, and unisons between limbs, and the basic […]
Hemiola funk series: 2/4 inversions
I wrote this out for some of my younger students, and also as a continued exploration of this hemiola rhythm in funk. It’s very similar to some other things I’ve posted— most of these left […]
Page o’ coordination: another basic 3:2
UPDATE: pdf download now works Back in Portland after a road trip to northern California… recording drums for a quasi-punk record by my wife and one of her 90s East Village cronies, in a Lions […]
Page o’ coordination: Max’s rubadub?
This is a page of jazz comping exercises based on Max Roach’s playing on Sonny Rollins’s Freedom Suite, which I’m transcribing right now. There’s a lot of interplay between the snare drum and bass drum, […]
Page o’ coordination: Simple 3:2
Coming at that 3:2 hemiola polyrhythm from the triplet side— all of our recent hemiola funk stuff has been using it in a duple subdivision. Here we’ll use the 2 side as the primary pulse, […]