Transcription of a slow tune, Lil’ Darlin’, as played by Al Harewood, with George Benson. This is a really great group of Benson’s, with Mickey Tucker and George Duvivier, recorded on a Jazz Hour album […]
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Practice loop: slow blues
Bringing this back to planet Earth, here’s a nice 65 bpm blues to practice along with. Sampled from the tune After Hours on Roy Haynes’s album We Three.
Listening: Delfeayo’s Dilemma
Responding to a forum question, referencing Delfeayo’s Dilemma, a Wynton Marsalis tune, as recorded by Kenny Garrett on his record Triology, with Blade on drums. How does one even beginning practicing playing time the way […]
Stick control patterns for jazz
I posted something like this before, but here it is in a new form, for a different student— we’re using some sticking patterns to simplify learning some basic jazz coordination. Swing the 8th notes. Play […]
Transcription: Max Roach solo – I’ll Remember April
A Max Roach epic here, a chorus of fours and two solo choruses on I’ll Remember April— not a short tune. This will probably go in an e-book sometime, so get it free while you […]
Practice phrase for Chapin
A very small item here, for making your time practicing single measures of independence patterns a little more productive. Try it when practicing Chapin— that Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer— or for any other […]
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 / […]
Elvin’s march
“I did go through [Harr’s snare drum book] as a matter of fact. I went to public school in Pontiac, Michigan, so I didn’t do anything extra. […] I didn’t have that advantage of being […]
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 […]
16th note exercise for brushes
Another cut and paste item. I don’t practice brushes nearly enough, so yesterday I was hitting that a little bit. Poking around for things I needed to work on, I settled on these pages from […]
Three Camps in 3 – jazz waltz – 01
Continuing the thing from the other day, here are some drum set variations on Three Camps, in 3/4 time, in a jazz waltz feel. I practice this same type of thing using my book Syncopation […]