UPDATE: I have since written an updated version of this page. The hemiola— also called the 3:2 polyrhythm– is a basic polyrhythm using layered even two and three note rhythms. What I’ve done here is […]
Groove o’ the day: Zigaboo Modeliste – People Say
Today’s groove o’ the day is Zigaboo Modeliste’s part from People Say, by The Meters: The 16ths are half-swung in the New Orleans style (“in between the cracks”, as Stanton Moore calls it). Listen to […]
Look, just take whatever they want to give you
Something no one needs,yet strangely not free. What better way to welcome a new (he’s actually been doing this longer than me) colleague to my blogroll, and thank him for linking to my Playing Quieter […]
Learning Wilcoxon with Philly Joe
Another thing I stumbled across completely by accident here. Writing in Modern Drummer in 2011, Jim Payne tells about studying with Philly Joe Jones– specifically, on working on a Charles Wilcoxon solo with him, Rolling […]
A treasure trove: WKCR Soundscape project
I just googled this up, from the WKCR 89.9 New York radio site: a duo performance by Ed Blackwell and saxophonist Charles Brackeen, recorded in 1980 at: Soundscape[,] a New York performance venue founded and […]
DBMITW: Jazz at the Philharmonic
This is from a Jazz at the Philharmonic album from 1949 that I dug out of my father’s record collection back in the early 80’s, and I’ve been carrying it around ever since. It’s got […]
Your own drumming blog: final thoughts
…or on the blog. Thanks Librarian.net and Timothy Vollmer. A few final thoughts on writing your own drumming blog, and things I forget to mention in our previous entries. I know I promised to outline […]
I love my records
And yes, that is a copy of Judas Priest’s Hell Bent For Leather in there…
Elvin’s Afro-Waltz: in 5/4, part 2
Man, I’ve been writing way too many words recently. Let’s get back to the drums. I’m still spending most of my time with page one of this series, but here’s another variation on the Elvin […]
Your own drumming blog: software
Continuing our little series on getting your own drumming blog going, today we’ll look at the software I use , and that might be helpful to you. I try to use free software whenever possible. […]