You can buy them all in one collection now. Hey, we haven’t done one of these in a while. All the tempos from four very famous Miles Davis records, with his very famous quintet from the […]
Category: tempos
Plain talk about fast tempos
“Billy, can we talk?” Henry Fonda time. I see we need to have this talk again. Everybody wants to talk about ride cymbal technique for blazing tempos. A little perspective on the subject: About 15 […]
Know your tempos: Ballads
Once every dozen years of blogging, I like to write about ballads— slow tunes you play on jazz gigs. They do exist. Possibly I don’t write about them much because I learned to play them […]
Equivalency of tempos
Object To Be Destroyed by Man Ray A rhythm issue I’ve been thinking about is the equivalence of tempos and their halves and doubles. I was wondering how small a range of tempos would cover […]
Know your tempos: Beatles
It happens often enough: some other players are discussing a tempo for a tune, and they look at me like I can pull it out of the air just from a number. It’s actually extremely […]
Know your tempos: what’s meant by up
In case you were wondering how fast you need to be able to play, here are a bunch of your favorite tracks spanning the break between “medium up”- where it’s still possible to swing- and […]
Know your tempos: Rolling Stones
I’ve been keeping a little tempos database, containing information on as many very familiar tracks as I can manage- mainly tempo, meter, and style. These are a handy mnemonic device for picking tempos out of […]