April 2017 – Francis' Drumming Blog

francis' drumming blog drum sheet music exercises and other stuff

A new look for my blog!

19 April 2017

My website has evolved quite a lot over the past 4 months, in particular regarding visibility, visits, and resources, so I wanted a new format and a new name to reflect this… and here’s the new look! I included in the left side a Blogroll (updated monthly) with the ten most interesting articles from the … More A new look for my blog!

Quintuplets Accents - Progressive Steps to Syncopation by Ted Reed

Quintuplets Lesson Part 2

2 April 2017

In the previous lesson. I shared some exercises to master quintuplets. In this second lesson, I show you a system to play and interpret the exercises of Ted Reed’s Syncopation (pages 38 to 45) using quintuplets with an alternate sticking (RLRLR | LRLRL). What we’ll do is to read the pages of Reed’s Syncopation playing the … More Quintuplets Lesson Part 2