Variations on a songo rhythm, hands only. The usual groove is kind of a set thing, that can be a hard thing to break away from, so this page forces the issue, opening it up […]
Category: latin
Playing Mozambique
Sorry for that graphic. I promise, no more AI slop. Not much more. Here is more video— I’m recording lots of my practicing right now, as I get my video act together. Here I’m playing […]
Another aside: interesting clave item
A little piece of rhythm analysis— an interesting item that came up, of all places, through a J.J. Cale song, that accidentally reveals something about the structure of the Son clave rhythm, similar to what […]
Timbale fills for Mozambique
Or any quasi-Cuban, Caribbean, salsoid Latin style. Mozambique is our default for thing for that type of groove. I’ve covered this way of filling before, here I’ll give suggested accents and stickings for a timbale-like […]
Reed tweak: paradiddle inversion to toms
Another pretty substantial tweak to one of my other Reed systems— converting a very ordinary system, accented triplets, to paradiddle inversions— RLLR-LRRL. Actually there’s very little to it, I just think it’s worth spending some […]
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 […]
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 […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6 with RH move – 01
Two of these in a row. I’m too occupied with finishing this new book— Rants, vol. 1— now at the critical “done, and it all looks wrong” stage of editing. So I need a few […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6 – new LH basics
Basic left hand variations with a basic form of the an Afro 6/8 groove, with the “short” bell rhythm. Finally updating a page I did way back in 2012, that I still use all the […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6 – BD variations
OK, first new content post on the new platform. WordPress handles images a little differently, and it’s messing with my usual post design, so I’ll be fiddling with that a bit. I’ve been working with […]