A fun practice loop in 6/4 with a strong suggestion of 12/8. It’s really a compound pulse where it’s both things at the same time. Hit the time signature labels at the bottom of the […]
Category: John Zorn
Practice loop in 6/4: Magdalena
Practice loop in 6/4 sampled from Magdalena, from John Zorn’s album O’o. Tempo is quarter note = 204, and there is an extra bar of 3/4 on the big figure at the end of the […]
Practice loop: Zorn fast 4
Here’s a good practice loop for working on the recent EZ uptempo methods. Tempo is 154 bpm, or 308 depending on how you want to count it— which is about as fast as most people […]
Practice loop in 6/4: Lilin
Here’s that practice loop for yesterday’s Figure Control page in 6/4, sampled from Lilin, played by John Zorn’s Masada. The tempo is a little easier than the other recent loop in 6. You’ll also find […]
Practice loop: fast 7
At long last, here’s that practice loop to go with all the stuff in 7 I’ve been posting of late. This is sampled from the tune Solitaire, from John Zorn’s album O’o, which you should […]
Joey Baron master class – part 3: I Forced Myself To Kick My Own Butt
Part 3 of Joey Baron’s 1994 New School master class: HOW DO YOU MAKE THE BAND LISTEN? Um, drown them out? No, well, you can’t make somebody listen. You can try to hint, you can […]
Joey Baron master class, part 1 : Paying Your Rent Is High Art
This is part one of a transcript of a master class Joey Baron gave at the New School in 1994. I originally found this in ’98 on the rec.music.bluenote news group, and was just able […]