• Welcome to Drummer Cafe Community Forum.

jazz comp scrolling manuscript on youtube

Started by Jason Horsler, March 18, 2013, 10:31 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Jason Horsler

JAZZ COMP SCROLLING CHALLENGE
Work your way through these sixteen levels to exercise your jazz comping independence and sight-reading skills.
Place your phone or tablet on your high tom or you laptop where convenient to see the screen, plug in some headphones/earphones and play each progressive level by swinging all the 8th notes (played on the snare) while playing the jazz ride 'spang-a-lang' pattern with your other hand and stepping 2 and 4 on the hihat.

How far did you get?

To help increase your knowledge and skill of jazz drumming I highly recommend working through all of John Riley's books and engaging the services of a good local teacher.
Please share this resource with your pupils and other drummers.


This challenge comprises eight scrolling ticker tapes each filmed at two tempos (slow and medium speed).

level 1 and 2 simple quarter notes and rests. Some eighths. Sparse. snare only
http://youtu.be/z6imGAT0T3E]http://youtu.be/z6imGAT0T3E
http://youtu.be/ShBqLt_Otiw]http://youtu.be/ShBqLt_Otiw

level 3 and 4 more quaters and eighths. Denser arrangement.snare only
http://youtu.be/aRmVCgkJ9ag]http://youtu.be/aRmVCgkJ9ag
http://youtu.be/R-vY3Z8jfEM]http://youtu.be/R-vY3Z8jfEM

level 5 and 6 even more random and denser arrangement. snare only.
http://youtu.be/l-H5Yh1DB3M]http://youtu.be/l-H5Yh1DB3M
http://youtu.be/8FCsdbv5x6c]http://youtu.be/8FCsdbv5x6c

level 7 and 8 simple quarter and eighths but now including some bass drum. sparse.
http://youtu.be/DK6CY1LUrFs]http://youtu.be/DK6CY1LUrFs
http://youtu.be/79rQ-x7B9Rg]http://youtu.be/79rQ-x7B9Rg

level 9 and 10 more interesting mix of notes and rests. denser arrangement. bass and snare.
http://youtu.be/atUiREtYxOA]http://youtu.be/atUiREtYxOA
http://youtu.be/tC6yWEaKauI]http://youtu.be/tC6yWEaKauI

level 11 and 12 snare only introduction of partial triplets. dense.
http://youtu.be/jLq7RCld_pQ]http://youtu.be/jLq7RCld_pQ
http://youtu.be/bL-dDIr_T1w]http://youtu.be/bL-dDIr_T1w

level 13 and 14 partial triplets now including the bass drum.
http://youtu.be/dRY3rN6ZFIw]http://youtu.be/dRY3rN6ZFIw
http://youtu.be/yWJKKn3YgLs]http://youtu.be/yWJKKn3YgLs

level 15 and 16 more dense and challenging mixture of bass and snare with partial triplets.
http://youtu.be/akgpSs60dL4]http://youtu.be/akgpSs60dL4
http://youtu.be/nKvlOHN7WYU]http://youtu.be/nKvlOHN7WYU

ENJOY - know i am
j

Jason Horsler

it has been a few weeks now that it has been up and i'm getting a lot of response from pupils - has anyone here been using these as a learning tool. i know quite a few have just glanced at them or sat tapping their desk along to them but has anyone actually sat down behind their kit and had a proper go?
j

Bart Elliott

I think most of our crowd here at the Drummer Cafe prefers to use the book(s) of their choice (eg. Syncopation) and a metronome.

Douglas Choi

This is pretty interesting - I'm using the higher level ones to test how quickly I can react to sight reading. Cheers for this - using this as a practice and teaching tool  :)