Continuing this little samba unit, here are some warmups for a samba groove with a right hand move to the floor tom on 2, for a surdo effect. It’s another place to go, it’s nice […]
Category: grooves
More EZ bossa subtractive systems
Some patterns that might be helpful along side the original EZ bossa system— itself really good for not just developing a simple, functional bossa vocabulary, but also for developing rock beats in a hip way. […]
Some 12/8 groove patterns
I guess we’ll call them groove patterns. These are mostly not what you would normally play on a song in 12/8. I wrote it for a student, just for familiarity with this time signature, and […]
Subtractive method: three way – 01
Wrote this out as an experiment, adding the left foot to a subtractive pattern, and it works quite well. It’s manageably easy to read. The underlying pattern is close to my usual pattern: BSHB SHBS. […]
Songodiddles
A very small item, adapting a paradiddle inversion (RLLR LRRL) to fit with a songo groove— they fit together quite nicely if you alter one note of the paradiddle. Which doesn’t leave us with a […]
Partido alto grooves
Partido alto is the name of a genre of samba music, and of a Brazilian rhythm, and also of— as we are doing here— a type of Brazilian fusion drum set groove. It seems to […]
Rock beats in 5 with Reed
Surprised I haven’t written this before. Expanding on a rock beat method I use with all of my students, to make grooves in 5/4— from the book, you simply read one measure of rhythm, plus […]
Transcription: Art Blakey – Safari
A little drum break and Latin groove from Art Blakey, on Safari, by Horace Silver, originally on Horace Silver Trio, vol. 1, on Blue Note. Originally a 78 release, actually— the recording is less than […]
Groove o’ the day: Jack Dejohnette – 47th Groove
This is from kind of a dark horse album, Irresistible Forces, by Jack Dejohnette’s Special Edition— under which name he released several records between 1980-94, with different lineups. I listened to the next record a […]
Subtractive method: EZ bossa system
A simple thing that works shockingly well for creating a functional bossa groove that breathes. You’ll recall that this “subtractive method” is a way of revoicing the rhythms in Syncopation, based on how they line […]