A couple of things cooking with the old paradiddle inversion Reed system. Here is a tom tom groove / solo method, creating an Ed Blackwell like vibe, using a combination of accented paradiddle inversions (RLLR-LRRL) […]
Category: syncopation
Reed p. 38 – double time
This is sort of a writing experiment based on page 38 (née 37) in Ted Reed’s Syncopation, double timing each measure. I think it’ll be of limited usefulness, but it’s such a familiar page of […]
Rudimental Reed: two methods
A whole lot of snare drum happening right now. Here are two pretty basic things to do with Syncopation on the practice pad, first with short rolls on the short notes and paradiddles on the […]
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 […]
Syncopation exercise – space – 01
For my own practicing, this week— all of this is for my own practicing, this week. I plow through a lot of material, keeping my eye on the overall. This is a full page reading […]
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 […]
Doctrine
Not a word we use a lot in music, doctrine has a lot of unsavory religious connotations, suggesting bureaucracy, rigidity of thought, and the opposite of creativity in general. Indoctrination, orienting someone to a way […]
Straight’s Modern Syncopated Rhythms
We must get away from the old military method of drumming and play the Drum part the same lead as the Violin, Saxophone or Xylophone parts. Let’s take a close look at a very old […]
Embellishing the Reed linear system
I call it the Reed linear system, it’s a thing I started doing on my own years ago, using Reed— the book Syncopation. I imagine others do it, because it’s kind of obvious. I never […]
Reed interpretation: RH lead 16ths – swing
A little item I’ve been working with, adapting our familar right hand lead Reed system for 16th notes, giving the rhythms in the book a dotted-8th/16th swing interpretation— as we do with this paradiddle inversion […]
Combining Reed solo systems
Lots of stuff combining Reed systems lately. Here we’re combining some solo systems with similar movements— they’ll have a timing change, and a minor sticking change, the broad movements are the same. They can be […]