Continuing that suspect page of jazz rhythms in quintuplets, here are some more practice patterns with bass drum added: See that post view from the outside of a swing feel for some explanation of this […]
Category: exercises
Page o’ coordination: Airto’s afro
Page o’ coordination based on Airto’s unique afro 12/8 groove played on the intro of Casa Forte, from Flora Purim’s album Stories To Tell. It’s a good introductory groove for this style— the hands are […]
From the zone: left hand developer
Here’s a cool little exercise from a great drummer from Los Angeles, Sinclair Lott: You can see what’s happening there— a table of time with a RLL sticking, with accents on the downbeats. Which makes […]
Page o’ coordination: hihat in the space
Here’s a page based on this ongoing Elvin Jones transcription— I observed when he was playing time on the hihat, he would tend to close it before the beat. I also saw him doing that […]
Page o’ coordination: Juju
I’m transcribing a little bit of Elvin Jones’s playing on the Wayne Shorter tune Juju, which I originally did off the LP around 1988. It’ll take some time to finish it, so here’s a page […]
Stickings a la Funky Primer
This is part of why I write so much stuff— you never know what a particular student is going to need, and in what form. For whatever weird reason, somebody will do really well with […]
Syncopation exercise: downbeats and &s
A full page syncopation exercise with the notes spaced a quarter note a greater. Some practice systems only work well, or work well at faster tempos, when there are certain limitations in the reading material, […]
Sticking patterns for drum set – basic
An item for one of my students— an adult student who is new to reading music: a page of sticking patterns, based on this 2018 post reorganizing the first pages of Stick Control. I could just […]
Quintuplet jazz?
I wrote the following when I was still loopy from shooting and editing cymbal videos all day, I take no responsibility for anything I do. There was another forum question, about using quintuplets in jazz […]
16th note exercise for brushes – solo
Continuing this thing— playing the the 16th note pages from Reed with brushes, with accents and bass drum additions hastily scribbled in while practicing. Here’s the 20 bar solo on p. 23. > = accent / […]
Three Camps in 3 – jazz waltz -02
Another set of Three Camps-form exercises in 3/4, for the drum set. The first two have alternating triplets between the snare and bass, the last two are based on a dotted quarter rhythm, with an […]