Another page working on normal jazz drumset vocabulary using Three Camps— we’re sort of inverting the basic version, except I’ve taken a few liberties with it to make a normal Elvin-like texture out of it. I […]
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Three Camps for drumset – 16th notes / basic – 04
This is the basic form of Three Camps for drumset, converted into 16th notes. I continue to dig this format for practicing jazz coordination. For me the main attraction of this page is the Elvin-like […]
Three Camps for drumset – RLL/RRL/six stroke – 03
UPDATE: I noticed a typo in the “syncopated / starting on 2” version, plus I changed the sticking on the A measures. Notes on the updates further down… Settle in, kids, we’re going to be […]
Three Camps for drum set – alternating triplets – 02
9/30 UPDATE: Lots of updates these days! I caught some problems with the second page. I’ll detail the corrections below. OK, I officially like this new system— adapting the format of the rudimental piece Three […]
Three Camps for drum set – 01
I like the traditional rudimental snare drum piece Three Camps as a practice format because it’s simple and finite— you can play the piece a few times and be done. You’ve done your work on the […]
Three Camps – 16th notes, combination stickings
The traditional rudimental piece Three Camps is a good framework for drilling speed and endurance, and to that end I’ve written several paradiddle combination stickings to use with it. I’ve been playing it as 16th […]
Three Camps in 6-stroke rolls
For awhile I was campaigning to get this RLLRRL sticking called “Swiss sixtuplets”, based on an overheard conversation from drum corps days, when George Tuthill and Alan Kristensen, two corps legends, were talking about rudiments. […]
Three Camps in paradiddle-diddles
For such a simple piece, Three Camps sure is a notation headache. There’s next to nothing happening in it, but it takes a whole lot of ink to write it out, and it never looks […]
Three Camps video roundup
Just checking out various people’s interpretations of the traditional rudimental snare drum piece Three Camps. A long time ago I did a round up sources of written versions; here we’re looking at videos and audio recordings. We’ll […]
Three Camps syncopated – 01
Yet another variation on the traditional snare drum piece Three Camps, adding a simple syncopation on the third beat of the first, second, and fourth measures of each phrase. It’s kind of hip: Memorize this […]