This exercise is based on triplets. The handsettings are RLL and RRL. You can use these to improvise. For example: RLL RRL RLL RRL RLL RRL RRL RLL
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Category: Reading
Three Quarter Exercise
Three Quarter Exercise Here is a three quarter jazz exercise. 32 bars melody in three and some preparatory exercises. Start with base 1 and then slowly go to the other […]
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Walkin’ – CD Art Pepper Modern Jazz Classics
This chart is to practice your reading. Writing out music, notate forms, accents, rhythmical lines etc.. will improve your reading. Therefor I wrote out a chart from the CD of […]
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Straight no Chaser – Important Notes
Straight no Chaser – Important Notes This time the important notes of the theme Straight no Chaser are written out. As you hear in the video which is attached to […]
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Rudi Waltz
Rudi Waltz We don’t know which book this exercise comes. Rudiwaltz is an exercise mostly in three. Half way the exercise Rudiwaltz modulates to another tempo. A very interesting exercise. Written by […]
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Reading Eighth Notes and Sixteenth Notes
The first two pages of this exercise are eighth notes. Use your imagination when you play them. Try to fill up in between the notes until it feels natural and […]
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Triplet Groove Exercise – Lite
Triplet Groove Exercises Play these exercises with several hihat patterns in the left foot. Hihat on quarter notes, off beats or every 1 and 3. This exercise is written for […]
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Groove Studies
Groove Studies Pick a hihat pattern and play the grooves under them. Slowly start improvising with them but keep the feel when you do that. Watch the accents in the hihat […]
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Reading Sixteenth Notes
With this exercise you can integrate the common hihat and cymbal patterns. Play those common hihat and cymbal patterns with a backbeat on your snare on 2 and 4 and […]
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Eighth Notes Reading – Syncopation
In music, syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. More simply, syncopation […]
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