Jack Dejohnette plays Tennessee Waltz! One of the most cursed tunes in the standard repertoire. I don’t know what’s going through his head here— maybe he’s having a wonderful time. I know a couple of […]
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3/4 rhythms – a special set
See, this is what I’m talking about: no matter how much drum stuff gets written, no matter how many thousands of pages of drum books I have in my studio, and even after having written […]
Transcription: Mel Lewis fours
Here is Mel Lewis trading fours on Stoppin’ at the Savoy, from Bob Brookmeyer’s album The Blues Hot and Cold. These are pretty interesting. Lewis isn’t anybody’s idea of a chops guy, but he’s not […]
Page o’ coordination: Simple 3:2
Coming at that 3:2 hemiola polyrhythm from the triplet side— all of our recent hemiola funk stuff has been using it in a duple subdivision. Here we’ll use the 2 side as the primary pulse, […]
Page o’ coordination: 3/2 over 12
Adding to our already-voluminous background for playing an Afro feel, or any 6/8 or 12/8 feel. Here we’re phrasing in 3/2 and 12/8 at the same time, using a common cymbal pattern. It’s easier to […]
Hemiola funk – repeated beats
More of this hemiola funk idea, putting the two basic 3/4 patterns into 4/4 by repeating each beat of the pattern… starting on each beat of the pattern. I don’t know if there’s a special […]
Tresillo rhythms – EZ rock orchestrations
UPDATE: pdf link works now. I’m doing too many things this week. I’ve been running some students through this, and it sounds good. A more accessible version of my funk control series. Some basic rock […]
Guaguanco – two ways
A little more on general fluency with a Guaguanco-type groove on drumset. It’s not a style that authentically uses a drumset, but the groove is a hip alternative for non-traditional situations. It has a nice […]
EZ fill developer
This might be more of an item for teachers. This is a sketch of a method I’ve found to be effective for teaching younger students to play fills, and play them in time, with both […]
Harmonic coordination improved – preparation
UPDATE: Here are some additional notes on practicing this. For some time I’ve been trying to work out a way to practice the very difficult “harmonic” coordination section of Dahlgren & Fine’s 4-Way Coordination without […]