{"id":319,"date":"2011-03-02T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/02\/43-metric-modulation-in-jazz\/"},"modified":"2015-09-27T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T21:26:22","slug":"43-metric-modulation-in-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/02\/43-metric-modulation-in-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"4:3 metric modulation in jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little thing I put together to develop the 4:3 cross rhythm\/metric modulation in jazz. Normally you actually want to explain an advanced concept like this, but really, if you don&#8217;t recognize it right away, you&#8217;re not at a stage where you should be working on it. Improperly applied, it&#8217;s a recipe for all kinds of bad playing. Plus I screwed up my back a little bit today, and oddly enough explaining things makes it worse. <\/p>\n<p>So here we are- basically I&#8217;ve translated the first batch of exercises in Jim Chapin&#8217;s Advanced Techniques into dotted-8th pulse:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxdrummer.com\/downloads\/lessons_downloads\/drumset\/pdxdrummer.com_4-3_jazz-vocab_Page_1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><br \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-WtOqiyL3c3E\/TW_0BWNlpdI\/AAAAAAAAAfs\/GrZRClpsp3w\/s1600\/pdxdrummer.com_4-3_jazz-vocab_Page_1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-WtOqiyL3c3E\/TW_0BWNlpdI\/AAAAAAAAAfs\/GrZRClpsp3w\/s320\/pdxdrummer.com_4-3_jazz-vocab_Page_1.jpg\" width=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I recommend running each line very slowly, counting out loud in 3\/4- the hardest thing about this modulation is remembering the original pulse. You could also do a few measures of jazz waltz time in between exercises. <\/p>\n<p>As it gets more comfortable, put it into 4\/4: count two lines of exercise as three measures of 4\/4 (still counting quarter notes- at no point do you count in the &#8220;implied&#8221; meter). Then play one (or three, or five) measures of jazz time in 4\/4 and then two or four repetitions of each exercise. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxdrummer.com\/downloads\/lessons_downloads\/drumset\/pdxdrummer.com_4-3_jazz-vocab.pdf\">Download the pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little thing I put together to develop the 4:3 cross rhythm\/metric modulation in jazz. Normally you actually want to explain an advanced concept like this, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[432,14,54,434,73,200],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-432","tag-downloads","tag-exercises","tag-metric-modulation","tag-polymeter","tag-polyrhythms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}