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Afro 6/8 – basic coordination

This is something I’ve been working with daily for several weeks now- getting the usual jazz coordination/comping stuff together with the Afro-Cuban/Bembe/Naningo bell pattern. It’s pretty tricky, and…

Swiss triplets exercise

Here’s a fairly challenging swiss triplet exercise we used to play in my advanced practice pad group. The trickiest part seems to be the fourth line, with the…

Matt's paradiddle thing, pt. 2

As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been working a bunch with the paradiddle page I wrote up for my student Matt F, usually combining single repetitions of each exercise, as…

Stanley's Page of Bossa Nova

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…

Stick Control expander – Rhythm, part 1

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…

Todd's methods: bongo beat

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…

Sixtuplet plus release

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…

Todd's methods: same-handed flam accents

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…

16th note fills using Syncopation – part 2

Here’s part 2 of my method for practicing 16th note fills using Syncopation. The goal is to practice reading interpretively, and also to give you a framework for…

Two simple rock applications

You’ve probably noticed by now that I do a lot with Ted Reed’s Syncopation? Here are two more methods which I have developed (along with my Rock beats…