I feel bad posting more practice stuff, when I’ve barely gotten to hit the drums myself this week, what with taxes, dental work, teaching, painting the house, and on and on. But back in the […]
Category: 5/4
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — 02
UPDATE: pdf download link fixed! Another batch of Chaffee linear patterns, in a different mixed rhythm than before, in 5/4. There will be four pages of this one; two of the basic phrases, two of […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm — inversion
This is part two of that last set of linear phrases in 5/4, based on Gary Chaffee’s linear patterns, from vol. III of his Patterns series of books. This is the same set of phrases from […]
Linear phrases in 5/4, mixed rhythm
Here are some practice phrases using Gary Chaffee’s linear patterns, from vol. III of his Patterns series of books. I’ve put his jazz linear phrases into 5/4, with a mixed 8th note/triplet rhythm— there are twelve […]
Some rock beats in 5
Here’s a basic page of rock beats in 5/4, along the lines of those found in Ralph Humphrey’s excellent book Even In The Odds. I practice my samba/bossa nova in 5 a little more than […]
Brazilian 5
While I’ve got you pumped out of your minds about odd meter Brazilian styles, here’s a page of Samba and Bossa Nova in 5/4: Learn all combinations of the above parts, then improvise variations on […]
Snare drum workout in 5/4 — accented 8th notes with flams/drags
Another flam accent/flam drag-oriented snare drum workout, which is a good companion to this one in 6/8 and this one in 2/4— this will be a little difficult if you haven’t mastered those first, actually. […]
Survival chops: triplets in 5/4
Part of the idea of this “survival” series is to be very right hand (or leading hand, if you play lefty) oriented; we want to start every measure with the right hand— it just suits […]
Page o’ coordination: 5/4 with tie across the barline
Here’s a Page o’… for getting comfortable handling an accented note tied across the barline in 5/4: For the sake of clarity, I’ve written the page without the advertised ties; but you should be thinking […]
Page o’ coordination: hihat splash in 5/4
Here’s the disconcerting third dropped shoe in this recent spate of hihat splash pages o’…, now in 5/4, and I… Wow, I think that may be the ugliest, most incomprehensible sentence I’ve ever written. I’m […]