{"id":240,"date":"2011-09-04T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/04\/afro-68-basic-coordination\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T18:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T18:07:26","slug":"afro-68-basic-coordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/04\/afro-68-basic-coordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro 6\/8 – basic coordination"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 it’s a good idea to do it with the preparatory ostinatos before attempting the main pattern.<\/p>\n

One thing I did early on was play just one or two measures of an ostinato followed by the same number of measures of just hi-hat, playing the coordination patterns the whole time- this is especially good to do with the quarter note\/8th note bell pattern (the first pattern on the third line on the page).<\/p>\n

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As it says in the notes, once you’re comfortable with the given ways of practice, you can take a stab at using the common jazz coordination sources, like Chapin<\/a>\"\", Syncopation<\/a>\"\", etc. Ed Soph’s Essential Techniques<\/a>\"\" has been really useful for this, as well as Rick Mattingly’s Creative Timekeeping<\/a>\"\", and especially Joel Rothman’s Compleat Jazz Drummer<\/a>\"\", which has a comprehensive section on triplet coordination, written in 2\/4.<\/p>\n

Get the pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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