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 […]
Category: odd groupings
Page o’ coordination: blazing Zorn 7/8
More 7/8, this one specifically for very fast tempos, based on the riff from a tune called Solitaire, from John Zorn’s album O’o. It’s a short, simple, but very challenging vehicle for a drum solo, […]
Transcription: Vinnie Colaiuta — Beat It With Your Fist
It is law that I must do an ultra-hairy Vinnie Coliauta transcription every time I do a fund raiser [Have you contributed yet? Please do. -tb], so here’s Beat It With Your Fist, from Frank […]
Survival chops: triplets in 5/4
Part of the idea of this “survival” series is to be very right hand (or leading hand, if you play lefty) oriented; we want to start every measure with the right hand— it just suits […]
It’s a five-off
Following the lead of Four On The Floor’s 5 Beat Groupings (including a hip way of using Stone on the drumset), and Trap’d’s 5 beat figures in triplets, here’s another variation of the paradiddle exercise […]