We’ll be marking time a little bit this week, saving up the big, good stuff for our fund raiser, which is going to be next week. As I mentioned in our last half-time feel funk […]
Category: rock
Half-time feel funk: the “Syncopation” section — 01
Here’s a new chapter to our recent half-time feel funk series, using Progressive Steps To Syncopation, by Ted Reed. Here we’re going to get into the “Syncopation” section of the book— pp. 32-44 in the […]
Half-time feel funk: advanced method — open hihat
Here’s the next step for this half-time funk method we’ve been doing, using Syncopation, by Ted Reed. On the intermediate method and on this one we’ll be using the pages with quarter notes, 8th notes, […]
What to do with a beat
Don’t know how to make a variation? Any of thesecould be a variation of the first beat. Why not. If you ever get bored looking at some page of rock beats you’re supposed to be […]
Half-time feel funk: intermediate method
Here’s the next phase of our little half-time feel funk method, using Ted Reed’s Syncopation. We’ll use pp. 29-30 out of Reed, with the quarter notes, 8th notes, and 8th rests, along with the page […]
Half-time feel funk: basic method
Here’s a basic method for working with the half time feel funk grooves from the other day. We’ll be reading out of Syncopation, by Ted Reed, pp. 10-11 (from the old edition) or Lesson 4 […]
Basic cut time funk beats
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 […]
Some rock beats in 5
Here’s a basic page of rock beats in 5/4, along the lines of those found in Ralph Humphrey’s excellent book Even In The Odds. I practice my samba/bossa nova in 5 a little more than […]
Transcription: Airto — Earache My Eye
Cheech & Chong’s Earache My Eye is just an eternal piece of American teenage rock & roll culture, along with Smoke On The Water, Iron Man, Sunshine Of Your Love… like that. On hearing it […]
Page o’ coordination: basic — 05
Here’s another basic funk/rock page o’ coordination, this time using a series of es and as on the bass drum— to me this exact rhythm is a very 70s thing, and doing it with an […]