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Jazz Coordination

Let's continue our study of coordination.

As you might be able to see and hear, the pattern you are playing between either snare and bass drum or snare and hi hat, is a four note phrase made up of eighth notes. These eighth notes are part of eigth note triplets.

ADDENDUM OK OK, due to popular demand, here are the four patterns for you. You'll notice that there are three four note patterns per each two measure phrase. This type of phrasing is typical in a jazz format and also in many other styles of music and drumming. You should really know how these all __sound__ and __feel__.

Your next lesson is to create the other three variations of this four note pattern and then play them opposite the jazz ride pattern, with two and four in the HH when performing SD and BD. For example, if you begin the four note pattern with a BD, then three SD notes will follow.

Here are the previous two lessons. When writing and performing the rest of your lesson, take your time to make sure everything lines up correctly.

Here are the four patterns for you. Try playing them opposite the jazz ride pattern as well as just quarter notes as written here.

Enjoy!

 

Please do write to me at chuck@chucksilverman.com
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Much thanks to Sibelius software for assisting me with these lessons! A very easy and intuitive program for
music notation and much more.

 
 

 
 
Hip Hop Independence Beginning Ghost Notes Jazz Independence      
Samba de Angola Steve Jordan
Tre Cool
Brief Review 16th Grooves Bernard Purdie-Serious Groove
Drum Essentials Cuban Drumming Primer Mo' Songo Essential Ghost Notes Samba 4 Drumset
Samba Snare Pattern Dbl. Handed Samba Essential Groove Candombe Groove Latin Funk.1 LatinFunk.2
Playing Clave Drum Set Grooves Clave Drum Set Grooves. 2

Advanced Coordination Exercise

Matanzas
Catá

Cascara Hand Exercise #2 What Should You Learn? MI Lesson
Mozambique

Cascara Application #3 Singles Exercise
Songo Basic2 Songo Basic3 Rumba from
Havana
Rumba from
Matanzas
Maracas Applications Cascara Hand Exercise
Hand WarmUps Double Bass Workout Three Sixteen Hand Exer.

Five Four
Hand Exer.

Columbia from Matanzas Basic Songo
Samba Reggae Memphis Soul Stew Paradiddle Pyramid Baião Rhythm Clave Warmups
Ostinato Ex. More Double Bass Abakwa for Drum Set Cuban Drum Grooves Abakwa Drums Poncho's Mambo
Partido Alto Partido Alto + Hand Exercises

Manny Oquendo
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How to Make Transitions

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Basic Samba

Musical Odd Note Groupings using
Triplets.

More Musical Odd Note Groupings using
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Interesting Sticking Ideas New York Style Mozambique MI Class New Ride Pattern

Candombe Hand Exercise

Lombardo
Lesson
#1

 

Lombardo Lesson
#2

Groovin' Independence

Basic Brasilian Rhythms Double Bass Cowbell Lessons
Latin Hand Patterns Latin Rudiments 5 against 2 Hand Patterns Changuito Melodic Independence Cascara Funk Lesson FunkyTwist!
Make It Funky! More Brasilian Lessons Why You Drum! Articles of Independence Dave Lombardo Power Grooves lesson Candombe

Killer Timbale Solo

Memphis Soul Stew Memphis Soul Stew.2 Palo Drum Set Lesson Palo Drum Set Lesson.2 Get That Funk Outta Here!!
Chachacha
for drum set

World Percussion
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Great Groove from Cuba

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Thanks once again for visiting my lessons page, and for checking out the website. If I can be of any help to you, please drop me an email. And don't forget to check out the books, CDs, and videos available here. Thanks!

 
Chuck Silverman
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Tarzana, CA 91357-2962
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