Dealing with a lot of small items lately. We know all the big stuff, now we’re getting into how to practice it in a musically natural way, how to fit it naturally into a continuity. […]
Category: Reed interpretations
Practice video: playing with Blues On The Corner
A few notes on this little practice video I did yesterday on Twitch— hit that link and follow me, please, it helps— working through some things with a medium tempo McCoy Tyner loop. You can […]
Two Reed funk tweaks
A couple of very little half time funk things, just significant enough to be worthy of mention. They’ll be folded into a complete method, if and when I get around to writing it. I’m going […]
Paradiddles with Bellson
Throwing a bone to fans of Louis Bellson’s Modern Reading Text in 4/4 here, with an easy paradiddle system. Most of these things happen naturally out of my teaching, or my playing; here I just […]
Subtractive method in 7: fills
Continuing this item from the other day, introducing some light fills, or general variety of texture, to that bossa type groove, in 7/4. This is actually really, really good for getting a basic creative playing […]
Subtractive method in 7 – 01
Extending our previous hard form of this subtractive method— in which we read rhythms from Syncopation, and voice them on the snare and bass drums according to an underlying 8th note pattern, BSSB-SBBS. We could […]
Double bass, natural sticking
This is almost nothing, I’m just writing out some examples of a simple idea for a student, to go with the verbal explanation I gave in the lesson. If I were playing double bass, I […]
Switching leads
Quickly sketching an idea to be developed at the drums here. We do a lot with right hand lead type stickings here— the right hand playing a mixed rhythm, accented, with the left hand filling […]
Filling long spaces – 01
First companion to the late very spaced-out syncopation exercise— playing the written part as accents on a cymbal, with bass drum in unison, and filling the space in between with continuous 8th notes, triplets (swinging […]
Jazz comping warm ups – triplets / SD-BD
A page of warmups for one of my students, connecting the right hand lead triplet system (which he knows well) into a triplet comping system (which he does not). They’re both major ways of working […]
Reed interpretation: paradiddle inversion in triplet 16ths
I’m hitting the practice pad a good amount lately, so we’ll be seeing more of these. Here we’re filling in triplet 16ths, in our favored paradiddle sticking, RLLR-LRRL. Or use whatever inferior sticking substitute you […]
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 […]