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Displacements with sixth notes. Bill’s explanations Exercises for right and left hand. Only with accents C) Sixth notes with accents Fills of 32 notes into a 7/4 with snare and toms Commentary: Perhaps we do five strokes notes in between or join t
Thrak (King Crimson). Bill’s comments and explanations playing all around the drum kit Commentary: Just to complete this section, now I’ll try to improvise with those embellishments or play through starting from the master rhythm to make it
Triplicity (Earthworks). Bill’s comments and explanations playing all around the drum kit Commentary: I’d just like to explain about a tune on the new Earthworks CD entitled Triplicity. Often as a drummer-composer, I start with a rhythm I li
How to play the Triplicity pattern A) The key to develop this pattern. B) The said pattern played all around the drum kit Commentary: Having found that seven bell part which is going to become the key to the tune, I just want to play that with different
How to play Triplicity pattern with Eight notes and with triplets (swing) C) 7/8 with Eight notes D) The same pattern in 6/8 Commentary: Now I very much like the six eight for triple time rhythm underneath the seven figure. What would happen if I put tw
Polyrhythms featured in the song “Triplicity.” Demo of Bill working with the previous exercises and parts “A and B” of the song. Commentary: But let’s go back to the original figure which you remember was four notes and thr
Flams and accents Bill’s explanations Exercises for left and right hand. With accents and flams. A) Seventh notes in sixteen notes into a 7/4, with snare and toms Commentary: Perhaps, the next obvious thing to do after that would be play flams in
Displacements with sixth notes. Bill’s explanations Exercises for right and left hand. Only with accents. A) Sixth notes with accents into 7/4 time with snare and toms. Commentary: Next thing you could do, for example, is put the same rhythm into
Displacements with sixth notes. Bill’s explanations Exercises for right and left hand. Only with accents B) Sixth notes with accents Fills of 32 notes into a 7/4 with snare and toms. Commentary: Perhaps the next thing it would come to mind is use
Exercises for hi hat, snare and bass drum Working with combinations of the three elements How to work with this examples E) Displacements with five notes in Eight notes Commentary: This next exercise lasts for five cornets* long but, of course, will res
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