We’ll be getting back into regular blogging soon enough— I’ve just finished the 2015 Book of the Blog (available for purchase soon!), and am chilling out with some Howlin’ Wolf right now…
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An excellent Mississippi Blues documentary featuring Fat Possum artists R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough (my favorite), along with a good fife and drum group, and others. I had a bad VHS dub of this in […]
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- Todd Bishop
- May 24, 2020
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A new practice loop sampled from Blues at Twilight, from Milt Jackson’s album Plenty, Plenty Soul. Horace Silver is on piano here. Tempo is 75 bpm, so this is a good one for getting your […]
Shuffle strategies
- Todd Bishop
- October 18, 2011
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The shuffle. The jazz shuffle is a struggle for a lot of people due to the technical left hand part, with the soft note right before the accents on 2 and 4. Most drummers attempt […]