A drumming blog written by Todd Bishop.
Another one of my cut and paste jobs, this time inflicted on Syncopation Exercise 1, from Reed. P. 37 or 38, depending on the edition. I've modified it so there are no more than two 8th note spaced notes or rests at a time. I've written some other things with that limitation. It's good for speed, with many practice systems— right hand lead especially.
Enjoy. There is no pdf, you'll have to print it from the image above.
This is purely a writing experiment, pay no attention. Like, run away to some other web site right now.
Actually this is a pretty good exercise for working up an Ed Blackwell kind of solo texture, if you played it on the tom toms. I just took good old p. 38 from Reed and transcribed it for two hands, with the second part displaced by an 8th note. This kind of coordination happens a lot in Latin drumming as well.
A little writing experiment here: I've inverted the rhythm from the full page Exercise 1 from Progressive Steps to Syncopation, on p. 38 in current editions, famously on p. 37 from earlier editions. It's one of the best known pages in drumming literature, certainly to jazz musicians. It's often practiced filling in the gaps in the melody rhythm with 8th notes, so when you do that with this page, the filler hand/foot will be playing that very familiar rhythm of the original Reed p. 38.
I was just curious how this would work out, practicing all my normal stuff. Maybe nothing of interest at all, but that's why we blog. At the very least it's another reading exercise with a lot more non-syncopated quarters than we see elsewhere in Reed.
