A page of paradiddle exercises, using the fun and hip RLLR/LRRL inversion. These are written in cut time, and can be played blazingly fast. You’ll notice that the 8th notes are all alternating, except most […]
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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, […]
Page o’ coordination: overlapping hands – 01
This is a pretty straightforward page of coordination patterns with overlapping doubles between the hands— each exercise has a repeating right-both-left sequence, with a basic hihat part, and a variety of basic patterns on the […]
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 […]
Your own “glitch” beat
Having duly warned you of the perils of such dark, arcane knowledge, here’s a page of exercises for developing your own “glitch”/Questlove/d’Angelo groove, which, like overly-groomed beards and twee interpretations of 1920s lumberjack clothing, is […]
Flam accent #2
NOTE: Blogger is doing one of its occasional bloggery things, and the download is not working, despite me typing the link in correctly. Also the same handed flam accents in 7/8 isn’t working. Older downloads […]
Linear phrases in 7/4, mixed rhythm — 01
Something to combine with all of the other recent stuff in 7/4: linear patterns, in a mixed rhythm, written in 7. Our source for the basic idea is Gary Chaffee’s book Patterns, vol. III, which […]
Flam accents in 7/8 — same-handed
Well, it’s been a whirlwind of OTHER STUFF lately, hence the lack of posts— I won’t bore you with that. This came up while working with our recent John Zorn loop in 7/8; it’s a […]
Rock beats displaced
You’re not going to be seeing much of me for a few days— I’m getting married tomorrow, I’ve got a pre-wedding party today, then a micro-honeymoon at the Oregon coast Wednesday through Friday (the real […]
Dahlgren & Fine in 7/8 — 01
This is a continuation of a thing we did before, in which we worked on playing a very standard three note pattern, RLF, in 7/8, phrased 3+2+2— as it is in the tune Solitaire, by […]