A set of practice loops for one of my students— faster tempos, maybe challenging rhythms, that encourage some improvising. Check out the other recent pages of embedded loops as well. Eddie Palmieri / Cal Tjader […]
Category: practice loops
Jazz loops embedded – slow tempos
Some good slower tempo jazz practice loops. All maintain a pretty consistent triplet feel, no one’s double timing his cymbal beat. Forms on most of these are 12 bar blues, except Stella By Starlight is […]
Funk loops embedded – 01
Continuing to post some of my favorite practice loops, here are some slower tempo selections from my funk folder. Also check out my rock loops I already posted. Betty Davis – If I’m In Luck […]
Reed tweak – figure on cymbals
Here’s a method for practicing filling in figures, that will work with most Reed systems, and involves accents on both the cymbals and the drums. For the examples we’ll use 8th notes accented to match […]
Rock loops embedded – 01
I realized that with this new wonderful WordPress platform, I can embed audio directly in the posts. So here are several of the rock loops my students use most. They’re set to loop, so you […]
Cousin Mary
Working with the John Coltrane tune Cousin Mary. I feel about some of his tunes the way Jon Krakauer felt about Mt. Everest— too chunky, too broad of beam, too crudely hewn— and almost as […]
Practice loops: latest batch of favorites
All right, here is another collection of practice loops— favorites that I use fairly frequently, that will be friendly to the greatest number of people. The last complete archive I posted has a lot in […]
Latest practice loop archive
Here we are, the latest archive of all my sampled practice loops, mostly categorized by style, mostly with tempos. I also have folders with all the loops I use the most, and with the ones […]
Jazz loop, rock loop
Two practice loops I’ve been enjoying, one jazz, one rock. The first is sampled from Everydays, a Stephen Stills song, played by Kenny Burrell on the album Blues – The Common Ground. Tempo is 124: […]
Updated rock loops
Here is a link for my updated collection of rock loops, which I put together for one of my students. These should be easy for most people to play along with— no weird rhythms or […]
Practice loop: slow shuffle
Here’s a loop that be real useful to a lot of people, sampled from Soulful Brothers, from Kenny Burrell’s record Blues – The Common Ground. The drummer is Grady Tate, and he’s playing a shuffle […]
Limitations of loops
There’s a good post about playing along with recordings, that everyone should read, over at Ted Warren’s Trap’d blog. Since he commented about playing with loops vs. whole tunes— and I do a lot with […]