Up-Tempo Studies - Modern Drummer Magazine

Up-Tempo Studies

In this second installment on up-tempo jazz endurance exercises, we’ll focus on comping with dotted half notes and dotted quarter notes. I’ve had great results with these exercises while teaching at Temple University, and I hope you experience similar outcomes. To gain the confidence and language necessary to play faster tempos, it helps to have specific goals and work toward them gradually, patiently, and systematically.
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May 2018 Issue