Here’s a page for my students, working through the basics of a half time funk shuffle groove. It gets mentioned a lot more online than it comes up in real life, but it’s a thing. […]
Category: half time feel
Half time country rock with Reed
This swingy country, folky, gospel type of half time feel groove is all over the music of the late 60s/early 70s. You Can’t Always Get What You Want, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, for […]
EZ cut time funk method
Here’s an easy cut time funk technical study, sort of a flanker for my basic method, serving really no purpose except to set up a situation where unexpected things can happen. It’s easy to get […]
Cut time funk method: two-measure grooves
I’ve been working quite a bit with this cut time funk method from last year— part of what I’ve been doing instead of writing more blog posts. I’m not just writing junk to burn up […]
Half-time feel funk: the “Syncopation” section — a small tweak
Continuing with my late Reed funk method here, which now has its own label— click on that link to get the whole series. It’s becoming quite substantial— I see a book in our future… If you’ve […]
Half-time feel to regular 4/4
We’ll be marking time a little bit this week, saving up the big, good stuff for our fund raiser, which is going to be next week. As I mentioned in our last half-time feel funk […]
Half-time feel funk: the “Syncopation” section — 01
Here’s a new chapter to our recent half-time feel funk series, using Progressive Steps To Syncopation, by Ted Reed. Here we’re going to get into the “Syncopation” section of the book— pp. 32-44 in the […]
Half-time feel funk: advanced method — open hihat
Here’s the next step for this half-time funk method we’ve been doing, using Syncopation, by Ted Reed. On the intermediate method and on this one we’ll be using the pages with quarter notes, 8th notes, […]
Half-time feel funk: intermediate method
Here’s the next phase of our little half-time feel funk method, using Ted Reed’s Syncopation. We’ll use pp. 29-30 out of Reed, with the quarter notes, 8th notes, and 8th rests, along with the page […]
Half-time feel funk: basic method
Here’s a basic method for working with the half time feel funk grooves from the other day. We’ll be reading out of Syncopation, by Ted Reed, pp. 10-11 (from the old edition) or Lesson 4 […]
Basic cut time funk beats
Today we have a page of basic funk grooves in 2/2— cut time, half-time feel, whatever you want to call it. I haven’t given a cymbal part, because we’ll be doing some different things with […]
Doubling up a ballad feel with Syncopation
Happy new year, everybody. I’m practicing a lot of slow tempos lately, so here are some Reed interpretations that will be familiar to all jazz students, written out to suggest double time during a ballad. […]