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 […]
Author: Todd Bishop
Groove o’ the day: Evolution of Songo – 02
Here is the second groove from the Changuito history of Songo video; Changuito is the drummer for Los Van Van, and is a major innovator in Cuban drumming. The last entry covered a groove created […]
Cymbals for sale
I have to pay for that new camera, so I’m selling a few cymbals I haven’t been using lately: SOLD – 20″ Paiste 602 Heavy (blue label) SOLD – 20″ Sabian Jack Dejohnette Signature Ride […]
New Joel Rothman title
In the mail I just received a new book by Joel Rothman: Drumming Outside The Box – for Rock & Jazz. It’s basically a library of patterns focused around creating an unbroken rhythm on the […]
Funk drill tweak
This is a minor tweak to my standard funk drill using Ted Reed’s Syncopation. It was played by mistake by one of my students (6th grader), but it sounded good so I decided to keep […]
Photographers are _kin’ crazy
YAAAAH! YAAAAAAH! I needed to photograph some of my artwork (I’m a painter, too), and was looking at my old digital camera rig— a Nikon D40 digital SLR, which was a popular entry-level camera in […]
Groove o’ the day: evolution of Songo – 01
First of a mini-series of Afro-Cuban grooves o’ the day, transcribed from the history of Songo video below. Grooves are by Changuito, the percussionist who created the Songo drumming style playing with the Cuban band […]
Practice loop in 3/4: All Blues
Another practice loop in 3, to go with all of the recent jazz waltz stuff, sampled from the very famous tune All Blues, from the very famous album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. The […]
Page o’ coordination: jazz waltz with feet in unison – syncopated
I realized while running through these other recent jazz waltz POCs with the syncopated polyrhythmic thing in the feet, these things are kind of hard, actually! So I wrote up this page, that’s a little […]
Product review: Backbeater app
A rare product review here; this organization contacted me and asked me to try out and review their upcoming release, so here we go: Backbeater is a product in development, with a Kickstarter launch coming […]