Interesting, unusual little tweak streamlining a standard Reed triplet method, that should be good for fills, and for creating an easy, open triplet texture with a strong foundation in the bass drum. Probably helpful for […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Chasin’ the Trane – 09
Continuing this project, here are the 49th-54th choruses of Elvin Jones’s playing on Chasin’ the Trane, from John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard. Transcription begins at 9:20 in the recording. I see there’s a […]
RIP Carlton Jackson
Portland drummer Carlton Jackson died last weekend, he’s been such a pillar of the jazz community, a knowledgeable authority, and one of the handful of top drummers in the region for so long I was […]
EZ set ups and partial filler
I’m working through this with a student. It’s an easy reading item for the drum set, with a narrow set of parameters, using my tresillo inversions page (lines 1-8 only), my tresillo inversion combinations page, and […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Chasin’ the Trane – 08
When in doubt, keep doing what you’re doing. Let’s actually continue and complete my beginning of the year project, transcribing all of Elvin Jones’s playing on John Coltrane’s Chasin’ the Train, from the Live At […]
What are we doing
Been having a minor existential crisis in the last week or so— I played my first session in over a year last week, was feeling really unpracticed and generally out of touch with music… and […]
Page o’ coordination: pseudo-Latin in 7 – 01
A page of independence patterns for a quasi-Latin groove in 7/4. The cymbal part is based on a Mozambique rhythm, and there the similarity to any real Latin music ends. This is not a style, […]
Transcription: Al Harewood comping
What the hell, I’m on a roll, waiting for this weekend’s blanket of suffocating heat to descend on the entire Pacific Northwest. Let’s look at some more of Al Harewood, on yesterday’s same record by […]
Transcription: Al Harewood – All Blues
I’ve been looking into Al Harewood quite a bit lately. He’s one of those drummers who’s on a lot of stuff, but is still easy to overlook. He’s on a lot of Blue Note records in the […]
A needlessly difficult book
This has been sitting in my drafts folder for a few weeks. I wasn’t going to post it, but I’m having a hard time finishing anything lately. So here we are: A book I’ve never […]
Dejohnette-like method
The cosmos gave me a couple of instances of Jack Dejohnette yesterday— I got to work on that Jack Dejohnette transcription, and also happened to also catch him on the radio (KMHD.org, The Afternoon Bridge, […]
Syncopation exercise: p. 38 with ties added
One minor gap in the rhythms covered in Syncopation— that’s a drumming book, hahaha omg— is that there aren’t so many syncopated long notes on the “weak” beats, 2 and 4. There are relatively few ties […]