Easy page of double time rock beats. We’re playing a little bit of a mind game here to get people to play these beats fast enough, since a lot of students get married to one […]
Category: grooves
NEW E-BOOK: EZ Rock Drumming – A Short Course For The Mastery Of Rock Beats
Hey, we’ve got another new e-book now available on Amazon: EZ ROCK DRUMMING A Short Course For The Mastery Of Rock Beats It’s the definitive explanation of my Syncopation-based rock method, which has been covered […]
Groove o’ the day: Ignacio Berroa 12/8
Another funk Afro 12/8 groove, played this time by Ignacio Berroa, on his record Codes, on the tune Woody’n You. From the intro: As you can probably see he’s playing rumba clave on the cowbell. […]
Groove o’ the day: Steve Gadd – Casino
This is Steve Gadd’s opening funk-Afro 12/8 groove from Al Di Meola’s epically absurd fusion opus Casino, from the album of the same name: Listen to the recording and note the different qualities of accent— […]
Open hihat funk application using Dahlgren & Fine
Wow, suddenly it’s the end of the year. In coming days I’ll be throwing up as much stuff as I can to fill out any remaining content gaps in the upcoming 2017 Book of the […]
Building the Tequila beat
A student has a gig coming up where she has to play the song Tequila, but didn’t know a beat to play on it. This is what we worked out in her lesson. She was […]
Linear funk with a broken cymbal rhythm, using Syncopation
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’ve developed quite a robust collection of funk methods here, using Ted Reed’s Syncopation. If you learned them all you should have some real creativity going by now. So here’s […]
Groove o’ the day: Jimmy Smith / Midnight Special
In about 1991 I lived in Eugene, Oregon, and every once in awhile KLCC 87.9 would play something that would send you immediately to Cat’s Meow (the jazz record store that survived for 30 years […]
Groove o’ the day: Betty Davis – Shut Off The Light
Fairly funky thing here… fairly compared to nuclear war, maybe… the opening groove from Shut Off The Light from Betty Davis’s Nasty Gal album. Drums are variously credited as being Nicky Neal, Semmie Neal Jr., […]