Description
I feel it’s important to be able to utilise all you have studied in a practical manner. I always say that the hours of study and practice should be like communicating vessels, there has to be a really good relationship between the one and the other. Here you have several themes from my record Azul. In these you will be able to play with top Spanish and Tunisian musicians. I hope you enjoy playing with them as much as I have.
Commentary:
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:
4/4 Polyrhythm – 1736 – E
I prepared this base for a demonstration years ago, and the idea was to develop ternary concepts on this binary sequence. This effect usually reminds me of African music. Do not forget Africa!! For us, it’s almost a motherland. Commentary:
