Part 2 of the previous displacement thing. This is the kind of thing that’s so obvious I don’t like to put it on the site, but it’s an intermediate step to the next thing, and […]
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Displacing a groove – 16th notes – 01
This is an easy funk exercise, getting acquainted with rhythmic displacements that happen routinely in funk drumming, while relating them back to a simple groove. When this word displacement comes up, it’s usually suggestive of […]
Groove o’ the day: James Gadson – Shout It Out
Another “enhanced” groove o’ the day (that is not a thing), from a Patrice Rushen record, this time with the great James Gadson on drums. The record and tune is Shout It Out, and it’s […]
Groove o’ the day, ENHANCED: MORE NDUGU
This is how it goes around here, I get into a certain thing and do only that, and the blog content becomes unbalanced. What do I care, I love Ndugu Leon Chancler’s playing. You can […]
Transcription: Ndugu Leon Chancler – Blues For Walls
I say that every time I post something about him: Ndugu Leon Chancler has to be the player I love the most, for the least exposure to his playing— for years I just had the […]
Three Camps – isolated parts and complete piece
UPDATE: Jeez, I’m getting sloppy. Typos in the pdf fixed…. You know, I’ve never settled on a really satisfactory presentation of Three Camps— the very famous, very old rudimental snare drum piece. It’s much simpler […]
Left hand lead developer – for soloing
In soloing I tend to lead with the left a lot, and play a lot of normally alternating flam rudiments in only left hand lead form— in the past I’ve shared a couple of different […]
Transcription: Billy Hart – Batuki
UPDATE: Jeez, what a moron. Naturally I spelled the title wrong on the actual page. It’s Batuki, not Batuka. Well, we’ll fix it for the book… Here’s an interesting little bit of playing by Billy […]
Groove o’ the day: Go Ahead John
Getting loose definitionally with our groove o’ the day here— this one is all variations, really, and no foundational groove. This is Jack Dejohnette playing the beginning of Go Ahead, John, from Miles Davis’s album […]
Page o’ coordination: Latin in 3 – 04
Here’s a fairly easy page of exercises in 3/4 Latin. The bell/cymbal pattern is similar to the regular Afro 6/8 rhythm, but simplified— you sometimes hear American drummers playing this rhythm in the 50s and […]