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Danny Gottlieb: Cobb Comping

Danny Gottlieb lays out some jazz comping genius by Jimmy Cobb. He recommends listening to and studying Jimmy's time feel, cymbal beat, and soloing.

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Peter Erskine: Triplet Exercises For The Hi-Hat

Here are some triplet-based exercises focusing on the hi-hat. Some of these examples play easily, while others are a little trickier.

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Tony Williams Bass Drum Triplets

Try this! It’s very difficult! But thinking about changing dynamics of one single limb opens a world of sound and control possibilities.

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Ed’s Paradiddle Cymbal Accents & Variations

Danny Gottlieb lays down the magic of Ed Shaughnessy in this lesson, illustrating the paradiddles and accents between his two crash cymbals.

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Peter Erskine: Off-Beat Triplets

Here’s a way to add a little rhythmic tension to the traditional jazz ride cymbal pattern simple by inserting some off-beat triplets into the groove.

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Peter Erskine: How To Read Elvin Jones

It’s not a new question – how do you transcribe Elvin Jones’ skittering drum style? In this lesson, Peter Erskine sheds some light on an Elvin fill.

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Peter Erskine: Polyrhythm Practice

Here are some exercises that introduce the uninitiated to the world of polyrhythms by examining two-against-three and three-against-four rhythms.

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Danny Gottlieb: Cymbal And Bass Drum Accents

A creative device that many jazz drummers use for an authentic jazz feel is playing accents with the cymbal and bass drum in unison.

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Peter Erskine: Playing Around With Velocities

Peter Erskine provides some cool drum vocabulary that best exists in its own time and space frame rather than in measured time.

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Peter Erskine: Brazilian Basics

The great jazz fusion drummer shares some of his tips and tricks to interpreting Brazilian-music subdivisions.