jazz drumming?

[alvinthedrummer]

I know you did not ask for a book or CD....you asked for ideas and listening+ reading is by far your best resource for ideas! Even if you go to a good teacher, he or she will be pulling out exercises for you to work on and help you draw ideas from your practice....look, if I were to write down a fill in for you, that'll be one fill....but if you work on let's say page 38 of Ted Reed (which is a simple page) you can get 20-30 ideas from it! And guess what...because you drew ideas from your own practice, this ideas will be more likely to sound more "you" and will stick with you for a longer time.....

I don't understand "a side fill to complete a beat"....you don't need a fill to complete any groove, not unless if its a signature groove that you're creating....trust me....nothing beats listening and reading and doing the research yourself...you'll remember and absorb better! Even the best teachers will tell you.....BUY CDS....LISTEN!!!

 

[joshie]

thats one part, another is experimenting it by yourself and discovering what you can come up with. and some people do have little tricks up their sleeves on fill that puts the iceing on the cake. so... i want that iceing. and you can definitely improve on great fills. yupyup i'll go check out the book.

 

[alvinthedrummer]

You are so right about experimenting...but you can't experiment blindly....The books and CDs provide you with good grounding and a platform for you to experiment upon. The best scientist will need an idea first...then will do heaps of research first before experimentation takes place. Have a think about that....its just a more productive way to practice and improve.

Of course, there are times when you might stumble upon some great ideas while fooling around the kit...but come on, that is a real slow and unsystematic way to work...and 90% of the time, you find yourself playing things you're comfortable with and repeating licks over and over again.....

And remember, everybody loves good icing on their cake....but the core is still the cake! Make sure your cake isn't some lumpy crap by making sure that the main ingredients are right and the baking time is accurate!

 

[blurred]

THE CAKE! THE CAKE! if u like icing its fine really, more mouthfulls for cake eaters

 

[blurred]

man i love this cake talk!
i got into jazz by listening to muisc that was in transitional phases ie jamie callum. something like that is in between genres. i just got into the swing thing like that, man i loved the solo gene krupa plays on sing sing sing. that tribal tom rhythm ahhhhhhh so groovy but so simple.i reckon tht might have been a very early form of fusion, cause it's that a 3:2 clave? or a rhumba clave as they call it.
and i have no point to this rant. do any of u smoke shisha?