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Much more to do with 5/4

  • May 4, 2013
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If you’ve been using the pages o’ coordination we’ve been doing around here, you’re going to like what Sam Nadel has been posting recently— a whole bunch of stuff on playing in 5/4. He doesn’t […]

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Now you’re talking

  • February 25, 2013
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Here’s what I like to see— London drummer/blogger Sam Yadel has adapted Alan Dawson’s “Rudimental Ritual” into 5/4: I’m not much of a RR guy— it was just never a part of the drumming culture […]

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The raggedy edge

  • January 23, 2013
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Here’s a great post by Sam Nadel, on a subject I think a lot about— which I alluded to in the recent African ritual music DBMITW— “the importance of being reckless”: “Part of the problem […]

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Brian Blade transcription

  • December 5, 2012
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Drummer/blogger Sam Nadel of London has given us a nice, heavy transcription of Brian Blade’s solo on Jazz Crimes, along with a whole lot of other good stuff. Give a listen to the audio after […]

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