A page o’ coordination inspired by that last Dannie Richmond transcription, with a syncopated cymbal pattern. Are you getting to the point with these that you can anticipate what the left hand parts are going to […]
Category: jazz
Transcription: Dannie Richmond — Ugly Beauty
I guess the theme this week is TRANSCRIPTIONS and BUY RECORDS, because this post also does not have a YouTube link. But you can get the album on iTunes, probably from some other online sources. […]
Transcription: Paul Motian — Trinkle Tinkle
Oh, look, another transcription with no YouTube video— no worries, though, because as a serious listener, you already own this record. This is Paul Motian’s playing during Bill Frisell’s guitar solo on the tune Trinkle […]
Transcription: Jeff Watts — Makin’ Whoopee
Another Jeff Watts transcription, from Branford Marsalis’s album Trio Jeepy. The audio is not available on our usual YouTube; but, you, know, that’s OK. Music isn’t actually supposed to be free. So get thee to […]
“Skiplet”?
In some ways I feel I’m watching (and contributing to) the death of the familiar jazz ride cymbal pattern as a musical thing, for a lot of reasons, but partly as the result of a […]
Transcription: Jeff Watts — Upper Manhattan Medical Group
Here is Jeff Watts’s 32-bar solo on Upper Manhattan Medical Group, from Branford Marsalis’s album Trio Jeepy. It’s a sign of the times that Watts, a virtuoso himself, comes off as kind of un-technical compared […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s waltz — inverted feet
Once you start doing an Elvin-like thing, the pull of that dotted-quarter rhythm can be very hard to resist; it’s effective, it builds tension, and it feels good to play it, but you need to […]
Transcription: Ed Blackwell — Guinea
OK, this one is definitely a labor of love— that took way too long to finish and proof. But I’ve been living with this piece for a good twenty years, and performing it for much […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s waltz in 4/4
It could look an awful lot like I’m phoning it in with all of these Pages o’ Coordination— well, I am phoning it in, a little bit, but that’s not to say the pages aren’t […]
Stone method for uptempo jazz — 01
Most of the regular drumming literature is poorly adapted to the special conditions of very fast tempos in jazz; the practice materials are either too dense, or are triplet-based, which obviously isn’t going to work. […]
Page o’ coordination: hihat splash in 5/4
Here’s the disconcerting third dropped shoe in this recent spate of hihat splash pages o’…, now in 5/4, and I… Wow, I think that may be the ugliest, most incomprehensible sentence I’ve ever written. I’m […]
Page o’ coordination: hihat splash in 3/4 — 02
Hey, I kind of like these things— we’ll see several more pages o’… with hihat splashes, in the near future. This format has become one of the major things we do here, as I’ve had […]