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Open ratamacues for drumset
- Todd Bishop
- December 22, 2018
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More jazz solo vocabulary: my previous page of open ratamacues, adapted for the drumset. It’s pretty simple: we’ve just moved the doubles to the bass drum. I eliminated the triple ratamacues because I don’t like […]
Jo Jones in the ’70’s
- Todd Bishop
- February 27, 2011
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I stumbled across this piece about Papa Jo Jones late in his career, at Michael Steinman’s Jazz Lives. Steinman was able to speak to Jones and see him perform a number of times during that […]
Page o’ coordination: jazz waltz with syncopated 4:3
- Todd Bishop
- June 15, 2018
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Here’s a jazz waltz page o’ coordination with a syncopated polyrhythm in the feet— if you must know, a 4:3 polyrhythm in half notes and dotted quarter notes, starting on the & of 3 of […]