Tag: triplets

Alan Dawson’s “Ruff Bossa”

We’re laying it on pretty thick with the Reed interpretations right now, but I just went over this with a student, so I need to put up one…

Houghton’s triplets

From Steve Houghton’s book Studio and Big Band Drumming, here’s an alternate sticking method for making triplets out of Syncopation. For most people the most familiar method is…

Basic triplet solo ideas for jazz

I’ve been posting a lot of hard stuff lately, so I thought I should throw a bone to the earlier-stage people. So here is an introduction to soloing…

Todd's Methods, Pt. 2: triplet partials in Syncopation

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…