Here’s Art Blakey playing an Afro 6 feel in 1961, on Afrique, from the Jazz Messengers album The Witch Doctor— the first Blakey record I ever bought. I should start noticing when this type of […]
Category: 3/4
Linear phrases in 3/4, mixed rhythm – 02
Here’s the companion to the Gary Chaffee linear phrases in 3/4, which I posted the other day. This page just has the same phrases displaced by one note; the last note of each phrase, a […]
Linear phrases in 3/4, mixed rhythm – 01
More pages of Gary Chaffee linear patterns, in two measure phrases in 3/4, with 8th notes and triplets. If I was about doing things in a logical order, I would have done these pages a […]
Page o’ coordination: Elvin’s Afro-waltz – starting off the 1
Hearkening back to one of the very first pages o’…, in which we worked on developing an Elvin Jones-style waltz, the way he played it on John Coltrane’s Your Lady. It’s an interesting groove, with […]
Transcription: John Guerin – Backfence Cattin’
Here’s some 70s funk in 3/4: Backfence Cattin’ by Tom Scott, with John Guerin on drums. You could call Scott L.A.’s answer to Dave Sanborn— big in the 70s-80s, R&B saxophonists who made some popular […]
Transcription: Airto – Black Narcissus
From Flora Purim’s album Encounter, here’s more Airto— this time playing a jazz waltz: Black Narcissus. I’ve transcribed the head of the tune, and the first couple of choruses of his playing behind Joe Henderson’s […]
Chaffee linear phrases in 3/4 – 16th notes – 01
I’ve been trying to figure out why I never did that much with Gary Chaffee’s linear system; I find I’m a lot more interested when I vary the rhythm, and when I’m not always starting […]
Page o’ coordination: Latin in 3 — 02
Another page of Latin in 3/4— get the previous one here. You’ll notice these are very similar to our 6/8 Latin pages; the use the same bell pattern, but the BD/HH rhythms are slightly different, […]
Transcription: Joey Baron — Cattle Drive
A little transcription of Joey Baron playing in Bill Frisell/Americana mode on Cattle Drive, from Frisell’s original music for the Buster Keaton film Go West. It’s sort of a beginner’s version of the ricky-ticky thing […]
Linear patterns in 3/4: one bar, triplets, with inversions
I’ve written many more pages of Gary Chaffee-style linear phrases than actually appear in his books— people have gotten incredibly good just using what’s in the books, but they work better for me when changed around […]