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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Tresillo unit
- Todd Bishop
- January 28, 2024
- 1
For a couple of weeks I’ve been working with an area of stuff covering several different styles— grooves with a tresillo rhythm, or part of it, in the bass drum. I’ve been polishing it for […]
Page o’ coordination: prep for subtractive method with Rumba bell
- Todd Bishop
- November 1, 2021
- 0
Continuing this subtractive thing using another common Latin bell rhythm, a Rumba rhythm, Guaguanco. There isn’t typically a bell used in Guaguanco, but played on the drum set, it’s the equivalent of the bell rhythm; […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Gentle Rain
- Todd Bishop
- August 8, 2022
- 0
This tune shows you one way of opening up a Bossa Nova groove, in a modern jazz setting. It’s Jack Dejohnette playing on Gentle Rain, from George Benson’s album Beyond The Blue Horizon. I’m listening […]

