- EXERCISE 4
- EXERCISE 5
In the educational literature concerning the drumset, there are many great books talking about coordination.
The first ones that come to my mind:
- Advanced techniques for the modern drummer - Jim Chapin
- The art of Bop drumming - John Riley
- Syncopation - by Ted Reed
- Beyond Bop drumming - John Riley
- The New Breed - Gary Chester
- The Jazz Drummer's workshop - John Riley
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The drummer's complete vocabulary - Alan Dawson
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4-Way Coordination - Elliot Fine and Marvin Dahlgren
- EXERCISE 1
- EXERCISE 2
- EXERCISE 3
-limitation exercise inspired by my analysis of Mike Clark's playing on 'actual proof'.
While practicing these 'unconventional styles of comping I found myself not having enough ideas to improvise with. However, by analyzing the drum-groove of 'actual proof' I found out that actually there are only 5 motives which are repeated several times throughout the first 16 bars. So, I created this 'limitation exercise' which forced me to create a comping using only 5 short figures.
Look at the example below to understand how I applied this concept playing over 'beautiful love' from Kenny Barron's album '1+1+1'.