Popular item recently, a bunch of students at various levels are digging this. With the previous thing we were adding the paradiddles to some basic rock beats, here we’re stripping it down further, fitting them […]
Category: linear
Embellishing a groove – paradiddle inversion
Something we were doing in a lesson, putting this very useful paradiddle inversion pattern— RLLR-LRRL— into some ordinary rock grooves, as embellishments. I didn’t compose these to be awesome grooves, these are the types of […]
Paradiddle inversion control – 03
More than ever convinced that this is basic language— you got singles in 16ths, singles in triplets, and the RLLR-LRRL paradiddle inversion in 16ths. Certainly any time you get into Latin playing, funk or fusion […]
Chaffee linear patterns – e to a
From my own practice room, i.e., ten feet away over there where my drums are, some more Gary Chaffee linear phrases, ending with a cymbal/bass drum accent on the a of 4, and starting on […]
Embellishing the Reed linear system
I call it the Reed linear system, it’s a thing I started doing on my own years ago, using Reed— the book Syncopation. I imagine others do it, because it’s kind of obvious. I never […]
Jack’s RLB lesson
Yesterday I worked with a student on some connecting possibilities based on the highly useful RLB triplet solo/fill pattern. We have some directions to go with that: squeezing more notes in, dropping out a note, […]
Chaffee linear patterns – first exercises
I’ve needed this page several times recently— the first basic orienting exercises for the Gary Chaffee linear patterns: RLB / RLBB / RLRLB / RLRLBB / RLRLRLB / RLRLRLBB Mainly, playing the repeating patterns as […]
Practicing Chaffee phrases
Some things I do when practicing these recent Chaffee linear phrases, or any of the rest of them, beyond playing them as written. First, at faster tempos, the ones ending with two bass drum notes […]
Embellishing Chaffee
This is why I can’t get anything done, when I sit down to practice somethingpractice something I’ll get two patterns in, and get involved in developing them as playing ideas, working out how to use […]
Chaffee linear phrases – beginning with LH double
Getting back into Gary Chaffee’s linear materials a little bit— originally outlined in the Time Functioning volume of his Patterns series of books. Since first working on this system as a student, it has been a […]
Reed tweak: linear fill in another setting
A similar item to another recent thing, with a Reed system I use pretty often, but don’t talk about much— with the hands plaing the book rhythm, and the bass drum filling in the spaces. […]