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An aside: another approach to counting triplets
In the continuing saga of how to count things. Someone on Reddit— where I have become active— suggested counting 8th note triplets like this: 1 e & 2 e & Wrong as it seems, I’m […]
Warming up with Betty Davis…
As you can see, WordPress now has an AI slop generator as part of their suite of tools. Something else, isn’t it. If you hate it as much as I do, fill out this form […]
Embellishing a cut time funk groove
This is a summary of something I’ve been doing with a few of my students, adding some moves to the basic cut time funk grooves, which we get by reading Syncopation, pp. 34-37— book rhythm […]
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 […]
Transcription: Pete La Roca trades
Here’s Pete La Roca trading 4/8s (four bars horn, eight bars drums) on Homestretch, a blues on Joe Henderson’s album Page One. I’ve written out the full choruses— four total. On the fourth chorus there’s […]
I transcribe myself
Please forgive the slow posting here— lots of work going on with site other than just writing for it. As soon as I have my act together there, we’ll be back to a normal pace […]
Listening to Ginger Baker again
Note: Having finished the following piece of writing, I’m going to file it under rants. I set out to make an impartial analysis, but got so annoyed with the music, I think that category will […]
CSD! on social media
Rounding up my latest social media activities, you’ve probably noticed some new links on the site. Here’s what’s going on: Follow me on Patreon Obviously, a platform for contributing financially to artists you like, I’m […]
Shifting triplacues? Something?
I don’t know what we call this, “triplacues”? Quasi-irregularly spaced (in this case) flammed triplets, with a accent after the flam, flamacue style? …look, if there was ever any qualm about giving something drumming related […]
Fast tempo warmups/fallbacks
Some patterns both for giving our fast tempo playing— jazz playing— a solid, simple foundation. Also something to fall back to, when playing a tempo too fast for you. It’s an entry point, and a […]
Listening to Night of the Cookers
The Night Of The Cookers is a two volume live album from Freddie Hubbard, that’s a pretty pure embodiment of what jazz is. Whatever else we get into with jazz— with groove, dynamics/development, arrangement, fancy […]