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Dahlgren & Fine workout in 3/4

  • November 14, 2014
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Here’s a triplet workout in 3/4, using 4-Way Coordination by Marvin Dahlgren and Elliot Fine. The idea is fairly obvious, and has certainly occurred to a lot of people, but it might help for me […]

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Reed interpretation: fast within slow — alternative sticking

  • September 12, 2014
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Here’s another set of stickings for that last “fast within slow” Reed interpretation. The major thing we’ll be using is the sixtuplet form of the six stroke roll— or the “Swiss” sixtuplet, as I sometimes […]

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Reed interpretation: fast within slow

  • September 8, 2014
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Our philosophy around here is to never stray too far from Reed without good reason— I have to relearn that every few years. So here’s a thing for beginning to develop the Jack Dejohnette-style “fast within […]

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Todd’s routines: 4:3 with Dahlgren & Fine

  • May 7, 2013
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Hey, we haven’t made up a new feature in awhile, so here’s one: Todd’s routines. I’ll outline any of my current practice routines which are unique enough to be worth sharing, but not original enough […]

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