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Here is a page of basic Bossa Nova patterns, which I wrote up for a couple of my students. I’ve included the standard pattern that will be familiar…
One of the things I’m working on getting together is an array of stuff to do with Stick Control, that do not make more sense to do by…
Here’s an easy system I developed for playing a generic Latin feel very bright tempos: A few notes there weren’t room for on the pdf:– Can be played…
This is something that came up in my practicing yesterday, and I went ahead and scribbled out a page of it for you. These sound good fast, but…
Writing by making lists of things- it’s just where I’m at right now. This is a quick run down of one of the main jobs/avenues for creativity on…
This is something that came organically out of my own playing- it came up again and again in improvising for years before I finally analyzed it. The only…
Miles is going to have to askyou to CTFO. In the past I was regarded as kind of a loud player- I forgot how much, until recently before…
Lately I’ve become very anti-hip and anti-novelty with my practice materials, and the 40-page Studio Funk Drumming by Burns and Farris has that in spades. Written in 1981,…
Gah! What? I’m not sure my title is actually grammatically correct- a time signature “figure-outer” sounds like a job description, when what we are dealing with is more…
When I first started I used to practice the rudiments while watching TV, I found it boring so TV helped distract me. –Jack Dejohnette One of the…