Garwood Whaley's Fundamental Studies for Snare Drum
If you own this book or pick-up a copy from Steve Weiss Music (an independent music store) you will find these mp3′s fun and useful. Each mp3, marked with a number and tempo, is meant to be looped on your mp3 player or in itunes. Each piece has several tempos. Pitches were randomly generated within set ranges to produce tracks with no Continue reading
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The following video was added to a previous RHYTHM BLOG post…
I won’t post the pdf for awhile so this can also be a challenge for some to figure out what’s going on rhythmically.
When approaching the subject of rhythm I am going to use two building blocks – a short sound and a long sound. Each sound is made of small beats called subdivisions which are of equal size. The short sound contains two subdivisions and the long sound contains three subdivisions. From here forward I’ll refer to these two sound groups as 2′s and 3′s.
So, I’ve been coming across a lot of great resources lately and at this moment they are way deeper then anything I have to share. I’ll hopefully be posting more etudes and sight-reading in the near future. Continue reading
This is the first post for the newly added Etudes category. In this category, as in the others, I’ll be sharing bits of my learning process and learning materials for your consumption. I’ll be posting short etudes or excerpts and when possible comments made by musicians in regards and recordings of the presented material.
The tenor trombone will kick things off. As it happens, I’m lucky to know several outstanding trombonists. Continue reading
The goal here is to play quarter note triplets…
Triplet Quarter Notes
…over this odd meter ostinado in 7/8 + 4/4 which I originally played on bass drum.
Ositinado
