Today we have a page of basic funk grooves in 2/2— cut time, half-time feel, whatever you want to call it. I haven’t given a cymbal part, because we’ll be doing some different things with […]
Category: half time feel
Doubling up a ballad feel with Syncopation
Happy new year, everybody. I’m practicing a lot of slow tempos lately, so here are some Reed interpretations that will be familiar to all jazz students, written out to suggest double time during a ballad. […]
Half-time feel rock using Syncopation
Extending my previous series on making rock/pop beats using Ted Reed’s Syncopation, here is a way of making a half time feel using the same concept, except we play quarter notes on the hihat, and […]
Double time feel / half time feel
Hm, maybe being extraordinarily busy will force me to finally do some things that are actually accessible to people. Here’s another easy thing, illustrating half time feel and double time feel using basic rock beats. […]