{"id":315,"date":"2011-03-05T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/05\/todd-methods-pt-3-rock-beats-wi\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:58:20","slug":"todd-methods-pt-3-rock-beats-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/05\/todd-methods-pt-3-rock-beats-wi\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd&#39;s Methods, pt. 3: Rock beats with Syncopation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 is something I made up to introduce the idea of taking a melody line (which could be the melody of the tune, the bass line, or a rhythm part) and making a drum part of it. It&#8217;s simple enough that it probably exists elsewhere, though I&#8217;ve never seen it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good idea to already be able to play at least a few basic rock beats; that will isolate this as a thinking problem rather than a technical one. As always, we&#8217;ll be using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Progressive-Steps-Syncopation-Modern-Drummer\/dp\/0882847953?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=widgetsamazon-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Reed&#8217;s Syncopation<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=widgetsamazon-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0882847953\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;\" width=\"1\" \/>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-262gv0cVHaA\/TXKMw5kvbdI\/AAAAAAAAAf4\/n5Gnn3AIXnw\/s1600\/Finale+2008+-+%255Brock-beats-with-syncopation%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\/-262gv0cVHaA\/TXKMw5kvbdI\/AAAAAAAAAf4\/n5Gnn3AIXnw\/s320\/Finale+2008+-+%255Brock-beats-with-syncopation%255D_Page_1.jpg\" width=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxdrummer.com\/downloads\/lessons_downloads\/drumset\/pdxdrummer.com_rock-beats-with-syncopation.pdf\">Download the pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[495,502],"tags":[14,23,93,69,46,47,48,138],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockfunk","category-using-syncopation","tag-downloads","tag-drums","tag-music","tag-reed-lesson-4","tag-rock","tag-syncopation","tag-ted-reed","tag-todds-methods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}