Musical Time: A Source Book For Jazz Drumming

Contents

• What This Book Is About
• The Play-along Tracks and How To Use Them
• Section 1: Introduction
• Section 2: Some General Ideas About Set-up
• Section 3: The Ride Pattern
• Section 4: Preliminary Quarter-note Exercises
• Section 5: Subdividing the Wuarter Notes of the Ride Rhythm: The Shuffle
• Section 6: Combinations of Quarter Notes and Double-eighth Notes
• Section 7: Playing Combinations of Singles and Doubles to Create Non-repetitive Ride Patterns
• Section 8: Non-repetitive Ride Patterns with Double-eighths (Shuffle) on Snare and Bass Drums
• Section 9: Single Eighth-note Offbeat Exercises (The Third Note of the Eighth-note Triplet)
• Section 10: Single Offbeat Eighth- and Quarter-note Combinations
• Section 11: Accent Technique Exercises
• Section 12: The Challenge
• Discography
• About Ed Soph