UPDATE: Eh, I decided I didn’t write that page very well. I’ve revised it and posted it below. If you want to get the old one, it’s there, too. A collection of practice patterns exploring […]
Category: metric modulation
Transcription: Jeff Watts – Housed From Edward – 03
Part three of Branford Marsalis’s Housed From Edward, from the album Trio Jeepy, with Jeff Watts on drums. Let’s do the whole thing. This begins in the middle of Marsalis’s solo at 3:21, and ends […]
Metric modulation a la Silverman – 01
A student brought in a copy of Chuck Silverman’s Practical Applications: Afro-Caribbean Rhythms for Drum Set, and we worked through a part of it together, dealing with metric modulations— or more accurately superimposed metric modulations […]
Page o’ coordination: 2 over 3 metric modulation
We’ve done some jazz waltz POCs, and some metric modulation POCs, but some people will still have problems moving between the two in actual playing, so here’s something that may help with that. The modulation […]
Page o’ coordination: metric modulation — 2/3
Part 2 of this little three-page o’… unit. Actually, there are a couple of other previous pages you can work up as well— once you’ve learned any one page of this series, the others are […]
Page o’ coordination: metric modulation — 1/3
Or rather superimposed metric modulation, per Vinnie Colaiuta’s term, which few people use, but is actually correct. This is the first of three pages ‘o… developing a swing feel in 2 within a measure of […]
My Vinnie Year – part 3 – superimposed metric modulation
This is a technical piece by Vinnie Colaiuta, which accompanied his 1987 Percussioner magazine interview, and he now shares with us on vinniecolaiuta.com. I spent considerable time with this- way too much, actually, considering that […]
4:3 metric modulation in jazz
Here’s a little thing I put together to develop the 4:3 cross rhythm/metric modulation in jazz. Normally you actually want to explain an advanced concept like this, but really, if you don’t recognize it right […]