When in doubt, keep doing what you’re doing. Let’s actually continue and complete my beginning of the year project, transcribing all of Elvin Jones’s playing on John Coltrane’s Chasin’ the Train, from the Live At […]
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Page o’ coordination: pseudo-Latin in 7 – 01
A page of independence patterns for a quasi-Latin groove in 7/4. The cymbal part is based on a Mozambique rhythm, and there the similarity to any real Latin music ends. This is not a style, […]
Transcription: Al Harewood comping
What the hell, I’m on a roll, waiting for this weekend’s blanket of suffocating heat to descend on the entire Pacific Northwest. Let’s look at some more of Al Harewood, on yesterday’s same record by […]
Transcription: Al Harewood – All Blues
I’ve been looking into Al Harewood quite a bit lately. He’s one of those drummers who’s on a lot of stuff, but is still easy to overlook. He’s on a lot of Blue Note records in the […]
Dejohnette-like method
The cosmos gave me a couple of instances of Jack Dejohnette yesterday— I got to work on that Jack Dejohnette transcription, and also happened to also catch him on the radio (KMHD.org, The Afternoon Bridge, […]
Three Camps for drumset – jazz / uptempo – 01
I wrote this to isolate some things used in my main uptempo Reed method— which I continue to find an excellent method. This is good if you need to polish a few of those bass drum patterns […]
Linear 8ths in 9/8 – 02
We’re doing a lot with triplets and compound-meter 8th notes these days— here with a linear pattern in 9/8, with inversions. See this last similar page, and my page of linear double paradiddles/paradiddle-diddles— still one of […]
Latest uptempo drill
I’ll be honest, most of my uptempo things I improvise while practicing, and then work on them maybe a few times over a week or two. But taken together, they give you more than a […]
Transcription: Jimmy Cobb solo
This week I may finally be getting a handle on this Jimmy Cobb fellow, after 40 years of listening to him. It turns out his records with Wynton Kelly are the ones to listen to. […]
Syncopation exercise: page 38 inverted
A little writing experiment here: I’ve inverted the rhythm from the full page Exercise 1 from Progressive Steps to Syncopation, on p. 38 in current editions, famously on p. 37 from earlier editions. It’s one […]