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Latin Jazz Drumming Part 3: Mambo Bell Ideas in 3/2 Time

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Modern Drummer
Apr 1, 2019

Funkify Your Swing Feel

Fusing rhythms from one style of music to another can help a player develop new ideas and fresh rhythmic approaches that might not have yet been previously explored.

by Steve Fidyk
Mar 27, 2019

Creative Triplets For The Advanced Player: Part 2

Syncopated figures could be used within an underlying framework of 8th-note triplets.

by Mark Hurley
Mar 26, 2019

Creative Triplets For The Advanced Player: Part 1

The following two-part article has been designed to help you improve your ability to fill or solo using syncopated jazz figures amidst an underlying pulse of 8th-note triplets.

by Mark Hurley
Mar 20, 2019

Contemporary Coordination Exercises

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by Mike Alfieri
Jan 30, 2019
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Roy Haynes’ Phrasing

Modern Interpretations and Variations

by Mike Alfieri
Oct 30, 2018
by Steve Fidyk
Sep 28, 2018

Al Foster on “Ev’rything I Love”

Analyzing the Jazz Great’s Eights

by Jordan Young
Aug 29, 2018

Assertions And Evaluations

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by Jim Chapin
Jun 28, 2018

Latin Jazz Drumming - The Mambo, Part 1

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by Steve Fidyk
Jun 27, 2018

Expanding the Paradiddle – Part 3

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by Chuck Kerrigan
Jun 19, 2018

Expanding The Paradiddle – Part II

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by Chuck Kerrigan
Jun 11, 2018
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Five-Note Bop Groupings

Developing Independence with Odd Phrases

by Joe Bergamini
May 30, 2018

Jazz Coordination Studies

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by Scott Robinson
May 18, 2018
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