UPDATE: Man, I am getting sloppy. There were a bunch of typos and duplicate exercises in the original pdf— I’ve updated it, and included some accent variations in the triple paradiddle exercises. Hey, breaking our […]
Category: odd meters
7/8 rhythms
I got sort of lightly burned at a session recently, when a player pulled up a tune he had written which was in a fast 7/8. I’ve been working on my odd meters quite a […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — 02b – inversion
Moar Chaffee phrases in 5/4! This is an inversion of the last set: we’re offsetting the phrases, so the listed phrase starts on the second note of each measure. The attraction there is that it […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — 02b
Here’s another set of Gary Chaffee-style linear phrases in a mixed rhythm, in 5/4— a continuation of part 2, which has four beats of triplets and one beat of 8th notes. I’ve found this to […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — 02 – inversion
I feel bad posting more practice stuff, when I’ve barely gotten to hit the drums myself this week, what with taxes, dental work, teaching, painting the house, and on and on. But back in the […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — 02
UPDATE: pdf download link fixed! Another batch of Chaffee linear patterns, in a different mixed rhythm than before, in 5/4. There will be four pages of this one; two of the basic phrases, two of […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — inversion
This is part two of that last set of linear phrases in 5/4, based on Gary Chaffee’s linear patterns, from vol. III of his Patterns series of books. This is the same set of phrases from […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm
Here are some practice phrases using Gary Chaffee’s linear patterns, from vol. III of his Patterns series of books. I’ve put his jazz linear phrases into 5/4, with a mixed 8th note/triplet rhythm— there are twelve […]
Some rock beats in 5
Here’s a basic page of rock beats in 5/4, along the lines of those found in Ralph Humphrey’s excellent book Even In The Odds. I practice my samba/bossa nova in 5 a little more than […]
Brazilian 5
While I’ve got you pumped out of your minds about odd meter Brazilian styles, here’s a page of Samba and Bossa Nova in 5/4: Learn all combinations of the above parts, then improvise variations on […]
Brazilian 7
Here’s a short method for getting your Bossa Nova/Samba in 7/4 together. Since it’s not exactly an everyday thing, short is the only way to do it. We’ve discussed before the obvious wrong-seemingness of odd […]
Snare drum workout in 5/4 — accented 8th notes with flams/drags
Another flam accent/flam drag-oriented snare drum workout, which is a good companion to this one in 6/8 and this one in 2/4— this will be a little difficult if you haven’t mastered those first, actually. […]