I’m all about the one-page workouts these days, so here’s another one, for snare drum, in 6/8. The first goal is just to be able to play each of the patterns individually; probably some of […]
Category: exercises
Page o’ coordination: basic — 01
This whole Pages o’ coordination series has been something of a nightmare of difficulty; they’ve been for advanced players, at least. I thought I’d see what I could do on the other end of the spectrum, […]
Survival chops: triplets and 16th notes, accented
Here’s a page of stuff that should be handy, with some accented 8th note triplets and 16th notes in 3/4 time. Playing 16th notes at the end of a run of triplets is something I […]
Page o’ coordination: another Afro 9/8
The Book of Intros is coming along nicely, though now it’s in the brutal “not embarrassing myself writing about famous drummer’s playing” phase of construction. I predict it will be ready to purchase by the […]
Page o’ coordination: Out Of This World
For all of these POCs I’ve posted, I’ve actually been writing and practicing quite a few more. Here’s one elaborating on one of the very first entries in this series, but with a more advanced […]
Philly Joe Jones three-beat triplet lick
Following up the Philly Joe Jones drum intro transcription from the other day, here are a few exercises for getting together that three-beat triplet lick we saw there. I’ve included two stickings: alternating, and a paradiddle-diddle […]
Page o’ coordination: Afro 6 with feet in 3 — 01
Well, I’ve written more of these than anyone should rationally need, but did I ever say this was going to be a rational pursuit? And there are more coming, built on this basic idea of […]
Generic Latin method for Syncopation: part 1
Here’s a basic method for doing a generic, Afro-Cuban-derived Latin feel using the book Syncopation. We’ll be taking rhythmic patterns out of Reed, and using them as our bell pattern, playing them with the right […]
Page o’ coordination: Dannie Richmond-inspired — harder
I need to keep saying this: we do so many of these Pages o’… that a person could get the mistaken impression that I think this is the best way to learn drumming vocabulary. I […]
Page o’ coordination: Dannie Richmond-inspired
A page o’ coordination inspired by that last Dannie Richmond transcription, with a syncopated cymbal pattern. Are you getting to the point with these that you can anticipate what the left hand parts are going to […]