Tag: fills
A couple of new/old big band drumming books dropped into my lap recently, so what the heck, I thought I’d round them up for you: Studio & Big…
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…
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…
Another in the recent series of easy stuff, here is a page of basic set-ups for ensemble kicks on the & of 4. You can apply these to…
This is the first part of a method for working on 16th note fills, which I developed for my intermediate students. It requires some selective reading, but in…
Here’s a little method I devised for working on basic big band-style kicks and set-ups, using Ted Reed’s Syncopation. Like many of the ways of working with Reed,…