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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Listening: Art Blakey groove number
- Todd Bishop
- June 1, 2020
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Let’s do some more guided listening. Here’s Art Blakey playing a little Quincy Jones groove arrangement with a nine piece ensemble: Plenty, Plenty Soul, from the Milt Jackson album of the same title. The form […]
Basic 12/8 grooves
- Todd Bishop
- August 25, 2016
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Before we get too deep into the heavier triplet-slash-12/8 stuff, here’s a page of basic grooves. Gotta make sure everyone is taken care of. 12/8 is a compound meter (meaning it has a “triplet” feel— […]
Todd’s methods: Gospel 6
- Todd Bishop
- January 27, 2019
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Get me. Here’s a practice method for people who have bought my new print book Syncopation in 3/4. It’s closely related to my standard Reed 2/2 funk method, except here we’ll be doing a slow […]