Description
When working on these loops, try to get references from records in this style: listen to the drummer but also to the entire group. Do not reduce your vision, music is a whole, and the only way to understand any style is with thorough analysis. Most modern musical styles descend from jazz. This style is the main source of multitude of styles. Just listen to the big bands of the fifties (Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman,…) and go on to listen to the evolution of this great style (Bebop, Mainstream, Hard Bop,…)
Commentary:
19/4 Amalgam – 1712 – E
Up to this section, we have been working at 4/4. From now on, we shall go on to other measures. There is a method of Bob Moses’s which I have found extremely useful for an understanding of this kind of measures: Bob Moses called it “reference point
9/4 Amalgam – 1714 – E
Up to this section, we have been working at 4/4. From now on, we shall go on to other measures. There is a method of Bob Moses’s which I have found extremely useful for an understanding of this kind of measures: Bob Moses called it “reference point
Play Back (Rod Morgenstein) Displacement – 1716 – E
Here you’ve got some musical backgrounds based on patterns of the great drummer Rod Morgenstein. As you may well have noticed, this pattern was conceived for the use of a double bass drum. Commentary:
