UPDATE: Videos are up! CYMBALISTIC: I just got some great Cymbal & Gong custom Turks in stock— two 20″ jazz rides, two 17″ medium-thin crashes, one 22″ Special Half-Turk jazz ride. They’re quite interesting: the […]
Page o’ coordination: basic triplet texture in 5/4
Continuing this little series. You could warm up for this by just playing the original 4/4 page, repeating beat 1 at the end of each measure— effectively playing ||: 1-2-3-4-1 :||. Like we originally played […]
Back to Dahlgren & Fine
Basic unit of Dahlgren & Fine UPDATE: I’ve been hitting this all week, covering most of the pages in question every day, tempo around quarter note = 126. It’s very interesting— all kinds of unrelated […]
Izquierdadiddles
Tenue des baguettes I’ve got 6 hours of driving to do a 90 minute gig today, gang, so I’m going to leave you with this: I spend a good part of my life singing stickings […]
Very occasional quote of the day: the instrument itself
“If you get too involved in the playing of the instrument itself, you forget that the whole purpose of what you’re doing is to add to the music. There’s more to music than having control […]
Hemiola funk patterns in 5/8
Here’s a nice easy page of hemiola funk patterns in 5/8— based on our friend the 3:2 polyrhythm. World’s fastest way of getting your students playing hip stuff in 5, if you already (wisely) ran […]
Delayed continuity
I’ve been looking some piano literature lately, reading an old book called Practising the Piano (British spelling) by Frank Merrick. You can get it on Scribd without having to pay anyone but Scribd. Another site […]
Page o’ coordination: prep for subtractive method with Rumba bell
Continuing this subtractive thing using another common Latin bell rhythm, a Rumba rhythm, Guaguanco. There isn’t typically a bell used in Guaguanco, but played on the drum set, it’s the equivalent of the bell rhythm; […]
Rimshots vs. no rimshots
Here’s a little video of me stunningly adorned in lush Irish wool, playing some crap for a second in response to a drum forum question, about technique for low-volume rimshots. You’ll notice there’s very little […]
Page o’ coordination: basic triplet texture in 3/4
Same deal as the recent triplet texture in 4/4 page, done in 3/4. A simple linear triplet pattern with added bass drum variations. I already did this with a student, looking at the page in 4— […]