Another small tweak to my Reed-based funk drill, improvised by a very talented 6th grade student of mine. It’s very obvious, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before. Maybe I did, […]
Year: 2018
Page o’ coordination: cymbal on the &s
Please forgive my lack of posting— I’ve been spending this last week on video and cymbal related stuff. As I mentioned before, soon we’re a) adding video, and b) selling Cymbal & Gong cymbals through […]
Stick control patterns in 9/8
Oh, fine: here are some stick control patterns in 9/8, for practicing with the Bill Frisell loop from the other day: You can scour these posts for ways of applying these patterns to the drum […]
Practice loop in 3: Where In The World
Another practice loop sampled from one of my favorite albums by anyone, ever: Where In The World by Bill Frisell. The band is Frisell, Kermit Driscoll, Mark Dresser and Joey Baron. Produced by Wayne Horvitz. […]
Groove o’ the day: Evolution of Songo – 03
Here’s the promised transcription from the previous entry in this Evolution of Songo series— the breakdown from Pero a Mi Manera by Los Van Van, with Changuito playing the drums. For most of the tune […]
All about rolls
Some examples. This is more or less the complete practical theory of drum rolls as I know it, as gleaned from about 38 years as a student, player, and teacher in a community of professionals […]
Grooves o’ the day: Joe Chambers – Caribbean Fire Dance
Here are some Latin jazz grooves played by Joe Chambers on Caribbean Fire Dance, from Joe Henderson’s album Mode For Joe. This is late phase hard bop. Chambers plays a solo on this that gets […]
Site news: videos, cymbals
SITE NEWS: One thing: We’re doing videos. I’m gearing up for that right now. That’s what all of that camera jazz was about. I’m going to have to figure out a way to do it in […]
Three Camps syncopated – 01
Yet another variation on the traditional snare drum piece Three Camps, adding a simple syncopation on the third beat of the first, second, and fourth measures of each phrase. It’s kind of hip: Memorize this […]
Triplets vs. not-triplets
This is a pretty fine point of theory, but it comes up a lot on this site, so I want to state my thinking about it, so I can link to it every time it […]