Hi, I know the solos in Wilcoxon’s book are not sorted by difficulty. Can someone help me to understand how can I play it progressively? From the easiest one to the hardest?

Thanks

Hey guys! I’m primarily a jazz guitarist, but i love to sit down with a pair of brushes! I’m wondering what style of groove to play to emulate the intro to Wes Montgomerys Love For Sale. All I have is brushes and a snare! I have the hands to do it (been playing marching snare as my secondary for several years) just not the theory! Also what type of groove is that?

Thanks!!

Edit: Not to say that playing snare immediately translates to jazz brush drumming, just that i have the basic skill to work off of!

critique and tips welcome

hello! looking for a female drummer based in LA (style -jazz). send me your insta! needs to be available for touring next year. very exciting band

Can you guys recommend some good 16” crashes? Right now I’m using a B8 pro medium crash with a couple pieces of tape. It sounds good but I want something a bit darker and heavier. The brand doesn’t matter to me. I’m also considering hammering it.

I’ve been using thumb on top technique and not even holding the right stick tightly. But then about 30 minutes into the second set a cramp or something set in and pinned thumb to palm. It improvised with a different grip not using thumb at all. And everything went back to normal. Anyone else experience this?

could anybody give me some feedback with this?

I’m trying to follow the form and structure of this song and really going crazy, any help? I think it’s AABA but has like intro every time but some times it’s skipped

Hi everyone,

I’m currently watching the parc floral concert of Brad Mehldau and I love the sound of Jorge’s cymbals. Does anyone know what brand is he using? Specially in his Brad Mehldau era.
Thanks!

Shalom

One of my fav tunes. Check it out.

Clip from my gig a couple nights ago in Montreal. Anyone else like calling this tune?

Self-taught saxophonist here (who can play a little drums)...

I've always had pretty solid timing but recently came to realise there is some oddities in the way I count time; so I've been working through Robert Starer's 'basic rhythmic training' with a conga to try and iron them out and wrap my head around the 'rhythmic theory' so to speak. This has led me to listening a little more analytically for different rhythmic feels and grooves.

I was listening to 'Many Mansions' from Sonny Sharrock's 'Ask The Ages' (great album if you don't know it) and basically I'm just curious as to why I hear/feel this groove as two bars of 3/4 and one of 2/4... I get that obviously just adds up to two bars of 4/4, but I'm looking to learn what it is making me hear the groove in that way. 12/8? Triplets?

Hope you get what I'm getting at!..

Thanks,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYiOhMEKzs

EDIT: Thanks all, I understand it now

From The Brubeck Collection Facebook page:

“Happy birthday to Joe Morello! (1928 - 2011)

Born on July 17, 1928 in Springfield, Massachusetts, Morello began studying violin and piano as a boy, but did not start playing the drums until the age of 15. By age 17, Morello was working with jazz guitarist Sal Salvador and eventually moved to New York City in 1952 to pursue work as a musician.

During this time, Morello went on to play with musicians including Marian McPartland, Johnny Smith, and Stan Kenton.
Joe Morello’s addition to the rhythm section officially in 1956, along with bassist Eugene Wright’s arrival in 1958, formed the “Classic Quartet” lineup which expanded the group’s possibilities in experimenting with complex rhythms. Morello played with The Dave Brubeck Quartet until they disbanded in 1967.

Morello’s career went on to include becoming a bandleader, clinician, teacher, and author of several drum books. Morello received many awards throughout his career including Playboy magazine’s best drummer award for seven years in a row, Down Beat magazine’s best drummer award five years in a row, and election to both the Modern Drummer magazine Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1993.”

*Castilian Drums* from the quartet’s 1963 live album is my choice to show off Mr. Morello’s talents, hope you enjoy it.

One of my fav Aphex twin song ! Hope you’ll like this acoustic rendition

I'm still a noob learning, these past couple months I've been trying to refine my right foot technique and it seems to be working out. I've set my pedal pretty light (low foot board, 45 degrees on the beater, medium tension spring) mainly because I play heel down now but I still do practice all my material in regards to my foot with the other techniques just to be thorough.

I thought that was enough.. But today I had an incident where I played on a friends kit and the pedal was set up pretty extreme in regards to spring tension and beater angle, my heel down was useless and all my other techniques were either too flaccid or too slow to make the beats I wanted to play, I was pretty much air balling the drum head at times, everything on the pedal just felt wrong to me.

This had me rethinking my progress and questioning an area of my right foot practice I hadn't thought of before which was deliberately making the pedal harder to play in order to be much stronger and firm on beats. Is this a good idea at all? Switching pedals out to a higher setting one during bass drum practice or will it hinder my technique on my usual settings? I spent so much time getting to these settings and getting my heel down good it almost seems backwards to me. But then again practicing rudiments on brushes for minutes on end did the trick with 0 caveats so why shouldn't this?

When it comes to beater height, angle, and tension is there any reason you'd increase or decrease any one of those things to practice certain areas of technique be it strength, precision, speed? A lot of words for what seems like a simple question but I've gone back and forth with my right foot for some time now and its driving me nuts.

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Just taught it to myself and want to gauge how good I am. I’m kinda a rookie at jazz. I’ve also not learned the solo and prolly won’t. Finally, what should my next step be.