Tag: Todd’s Methods
Extending my previous series on making rock/pop beats using Ted Reed’s Syncopation, here is a way of making a half time feel using the same concept, except we…
You may have noticed I’ve been on rather light posting this last week. Expect that to continue for the next several days; this week I’ll be recording my…
Here’s something I wrote strictly for my own use, which I thought I would share for you to make of what you will. The Afro 6/8 has been…
That’s pages 10-11 for those of you with the old edition– as you can see I’ve given up completely and started referring to the parts by their new…
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…
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 organically out of my own playing- it came up again and again in improvising for years before I finally analyzed it. The only…
Most drum books present their stuff fully written out verbatim for the drum set, which is fine for learning patterns, but not for thinking like a musician. This…
The second in a series of quick, sketchily-outlined demonstrations of my practice methods. Here I give a couple of my variations on common ways of using Ted Reed’s…