This is an exercise that I call Triplets to Sixteenth notes. This entire exercise can be played over the foot patterns written in bar A, B, and C. For starters, I will play a bar of triplets and then I’ll play sixteenth notes. That’s cool but what I like to do is change the groupings of the sixteenth notes into (1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a) as seen on Line 1. It’s all alternate sticking that will wind up sounding almost like you’re speeding up and slowing down the triplet, so it’s a little bit of a time shift. I’ve shared a lot of love for this with Efrain Toro. It’s pushing and pulling the time just with these types of subdivisions. Line 1 is (1 & a 2 & a 3 & a 4 & a).Line 2 will be (1 e & 2 […]

October 2022 Issue