{"id":309,"date":"2011-03-18T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/18\/two-simple-rock-applications\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:58:02","slug":"two-simple-rock-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/18\/two-simple-rock-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Two simple rock applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably noticed by now that <a href=\"http:\/\/shipdrummer.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/syncopation\">I do a lot<\/a> with Ted Reed&#8217;s Syncopation? Here are two more methods which I have developed (along with my <a href=\"http:\/\/shipdrummer.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/todds-methods-pt-3-rock-beats-with.html\">Rock beats with Syncopation<\/a> piece) to introduce my intermediate students to interpretive reading, and to begin teaching them to think like improvisers rather than beat-regurgitators. The resulting patterns have a sort of 60&#8217;s bubble gum feel, with a strong quarter note pulse throughout. Some of them will make good, simple grooves on their own, some can be used as fills, some are only good for reading practice. <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-kfWKw64YXlA\/TYLr_B2iPhI\/AAAAAAAAAhk\/fIf4fiDVGBg\/s1600\/Finale+2008+-+%255Bsimplified-rock%255D_Page_1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-kfWKw64YXlA\/TYLr_B2iPhI\/AAAAAAAAAhk\/fIf4fiDVGBg\/s320\/Finale+2008+-+%255Bsimplified-rock%255D_Page_1.jpg\" width=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re able to play the exercises (including the 16\/20 bar exercises) all the way through without stopping, practice improvising with concept, changing patterns every measure. To play the exercises as fills, play one or three measures of a rock beat of your choice, then one measure of the pattern, and repeat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxdrummer.com\/downloads\/lessons_downloads\/drumset\/pdxdrummer.com_two-easy-rock-apps.pdf\">Download the pdf.<\/a><br \/>Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/pddr-20\/detail\/0882847953\">Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer<\/a>, by Ted Reed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably noticed by now that I do a lot with Ted Reed&#8217;s Syncopation? Here are two more methods which I have developed (along with my Rock beats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[495,502],"tags":[14,23,54,69,46,47,48],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockfunk","category-using-syncopation","tag-downloads","tag-drums","tag-exercises","tag-reed-lesson-4","tag-rock","tag-syncopation","tag-ted-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}