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A funk sticking in context: RLRLL

  • March 5, 2017
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Second entry in this little intermediate-level series of funk stickings in context, this time using a five-note idea: RLRLL Learn the first pattern in 5/4, and be able to count out loud along with it— […]

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A funk sticking in context: RLL

  • February 20, 2017
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This is the first of several easy pages of exercises for developing kind of an essential thing in funk and fusion drumming, which is not quite a fill and not quite a groove— it’s more […]

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