Month: August 2017

Ted Reed’s Syncopation – Jazz Interpretation (hi-hat in quarter note triplets)

25 August 2017

It’s been a few weeks since my last post (since I’ve been working on different music projects), I’m back and for the next month, I have interesting stuff to share with you: transcriptions, exercises and a book that I’m working on… But now here’s a very common Ted Reed method useful to develop your independence, that consists … More Ted Reed’s Syncopation – Jazz Interpretation (hi-hat in quarter note triplets)

Francesco Vecchio

Stick Control Revisited: Drum Set Application

6 August 2017

Last month, I shared a short video featuring some hand/foot combinations using the classic Stick Control book. This application, inspired by Alan Dawson’s method, consists of the first 12 exercises of the “Single Beat Combinations” (you can also use the rest of the exercises, from pages 5 to 7) applied on the drums in this way: The … More Stick Control Revisited: Drum Set Application