This is one of many pages of original Syncopation variants I’ve written up, in this case restricted to combinations of dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, and single 8th notes. I’ve devised a few interpretive methods that work well within that limitation, which I’ll be sharing, well, maybe real soon, since it looks like we’re having a few snow days here in Portland…
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Transcription: Tony Williams – Time of the Barracudas
- Todd Bishop
- March 8, 2019
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From the Miles Davis album Quiet Nights, with conducted and arranged by Gil Evans. The tune is a Miles/Gil classic, and appears as a bonus track on the 1997 reissue of this album. The version […]
Elvin-like 5/4
- Todd Bishop
- February 16, 2013
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Here’s another in this fairly massive Elvin series, which I wrote to develop this unusual cymbal pattern in 5/4, with the 8th notes on beats 3 and 5. The first measure is the cymbal-and-feet ostinato, […]
Page o’ coordination: cut time funk / fusion cymbal rhythm
- Todd Bishop
- August 30, 2019
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A Page o’ Coordination for getting together basic funk coordination using a common fusion cymbal rhythm, that comes from Latin drumming— it’s also the jazz cymbal rhythm, not swung. The rhythm is difficult enough for […]

