Usually people start with jazz coordination by playing snare drum independence patterns along with a static cymbal rhythm— see Jim Chapin’s Advanced Techniques, for example. It’s a thing to do, and it should be done. […]
Author: Todd Bishop
Very occasional quote of the day: play sessions
“We used to have sessions right here in this house where I was raised. Lee Morgan, Reggie Workman, McCoy Tyner—all those guys used to come right here and my grandmother would be back there cooking. […]
Daily best music in the world: Clifford Jarvis with Kenny Drew
Here’s a nice record from 1977— Clifford Jarvis playing with Kenny Drew, along with Portland’s own David Friesen. Straightforward power bebop, you could call it. There’s so much uncontrived tradition in this, it makes you […]
Double-paradiddle / paradiddle-diddle inversions – linear, all on one page
I wrote this up for myself, maybe you’ll use it, too. These are the 6/8 linear versions of the double paradiddle and paradiddle-diddle inversions page, written for snare drum and bass drum— that’s easier for […]
Practice loop: Milt Jackson medium blues
This is the main loop I’ve been using with late Three Camps for drumset materials. Most of them— to my taste yesterday’s thing is better to practice without a loop. This is sampled from a portion […]
Three Camps for drumset – RLL/RRL/six stroke – 03
UPDATE: I noticed a typo in the “syncopated / starting on 2” version, plus I changed the sticking on the A measures. Notes on the updates further down… Settle in, kids, we’re going to be […]
Daily best music in the world: harmolodic rock
From the 80s, when you could play this kind of music and get an apparently-decent recording contract, here is some James Blood Ulmer. It seems to fit the mood of the day. Harmolodics, for the […]
Paradiddle-diddle inversions
Remember that page of double paradiddle inversions I wrote back in April? April 2020. Or, ~198,000 United States COVID deaths ago, for those of you who have abandoned calendars and moved over to a death-count based time […]
Three Camps for drum set – alternating triplets – 02
9/30 UPDATE: Lots of updates these days! I caught some problems with the second page. I’ll detail the corrections below. OK, I officially like this new system— adapting the format of the rudimental piece Three […]
Transcription: Billy Cobham – Introspective
Ahhh good times here in the Pacific Northwest, with the forests burning, and the entire city blanketed in smoke so it looks like we’re in Blade Runner, or the Mexico sequences from Breaking Bad, with […]