{"id":66,"date":"2012-09-28T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/28\/rudimental-reed-ruffs\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T18:03:51","slug":"rudimental-reed-ruffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/28\/rudimental-reed-ruffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudimental Reed: ruffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Rudimental Reed<\/a> entry is pretty straightforward\u2014 just make a ruff out of any note that doesn’t have an (untied) 8th note before it<\/i>.\u00a0 That’s an awkward way of phrasing it, but I think you’ll find it’s very intuitive once you play the examples. The rudiments covered, or generated, include ruffs, single drags, and double drags, similar to a lot of the things in the Wilcoxon etude Roughing the Single Drag<\/a>, from Modern Rudimental Swing Solos\u2014 I would recommed playing through that as a companion piece to this item.<\/p>\n

As always, we’ll first see how it applies to the first line of Exercise 1, p. 37 in Syncopation:<\/p>\n

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I’ve given both alternating and natural stickings<\/a>\u2014 play it both ways, leading with either hand. I haven’t included the multiple-bounce strokes in the stickings, but they happen with the opposite hand. Swing the 8th notes.<\/p>\n

Here’s a denser example, which is the first line of Exercise 2:<\/p>\n

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If you have questions about how to play a ruff, there’s a pretty good video after the break:<\/p>\n

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