Fundamentals
Triplets: Patterns and Groupings
Example 1: Eighth-note triplets grouped in twos
Example 2: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours
Example 3: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours
Example 4: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours using two arpeggios
Example 5: Quarter-note triplets grouped in twos
Example 6: Quarter-note triplets grouped in fours
Example 7: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fives
Example 8: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fives
Example 9: Triplet patterns
Example 10: Triplet patterns
Example 11: Triplet pattern as bass line (Backing Track)
Example 12: Triplets - rhythmic counterpoint
Example 13: Triplet groove with chords (Backing Track)
Example 14: “African Song” upper lines
Example 15: “African Song” lower lines
Example 16: “African Song” four-part score
Example 17: Triplet groove (Backing Track)
Example 18: Triplet groove
Example 19: Rhythmic counterpoint (Backing Track)
Example 20: Triplet groove (Backing Track)
Applying Rhythmic Patterns to Standard Forms in 4/4
Example 21: “Dotted-Half Blues” with rhythm section
Example 22: “Just One Thing” with rhythm section
Example 23: “Dotted-Quarter Blues” with rhythm section
Example 24: “No or Yes” with rhythm section
Example 25: “No or Yes” full form with rhythm section
Example 26: “G S ” in 3/4 with rhythm section
Using Groupings and Rhythmic Layering in 4/4
Example 27: “Pulsion” bass line and drums only (Backing Track)
Example 28: “Pulsion” A section with rhythm section
Example 29: “Pulsion” B section with bass and drums only (Backing Track)
Example 29A: “Pulsion” B section with rhythm section
Example 30: “Thread”
Odd Meters
Fives
Example 31: 5/4 Groove with rhythm section
Example 32: 5/4 Groove retrograde (Backing Track)
Example 33: 5/4 Comping rhythms
Example 34: 5/4 Comping rhythms
Example 35: Two-chord 5/4 groove (Backing Track)
Example 36: 5/4 Counterrhythms
Example 37: “Momentum” bass line with rhythm section
Example 38: Clave and retrograde clave with rhythm section
Example 39: Comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 40: Comping patterns with rhythm section
Example 41: Dotted-quarter pattern with rhythm sections
Example 42: Three layers in 5/4
Example 43: “5/4 Blues” with bass and drums only (Backing Track)
Example 44: “5/4 Blues” with rhythm section
Example 45: Four variations with rhythm section
Example 46: 5/4 Chord progression (Backing Track)
Example 46A: 5/4 Chord progression - retrograde clave (Backing Track)
Example 47: “Available Light” with rhythm section
Sevens
Example 48: “Samba 7” with bass and drums (Backing Track)
Example 48A: “Samba 7” with rhythm section
Example 49: Group 1 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 49A: Group 2 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 49B: Group 3 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 49C: Group 4 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 49D: Group 5 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 50: “Samba 7” up-tempo with bass and drums only
Example 50A: “Samba 7” up-tempo with rhythm section
Example 51: Dotted-quarter pattern in 7/4
Example 52: Pattern grouped in fives
Example 53: 7/4 Clave variation
Example 54: 7/4 Retrograde clave
Example 55: Two-measure 7/4 groove
Example 56: “Blues in 7/4” with bass and drums
Example 56A: “Blues in 7/4” with rhythm section Example 57: 7/4 Groove (Backing Track)
Example 58: Slow swing feel in 7/4 with rhythm section
Example 59: Bass line without downbeat
Example 60: Bass line without downbeat
Example 61: 7/4 Groove with bypassed downbeat
Example 62: 7/4 Groove (Backing Track)
Example 63: Funk groove in 7/4 (Backing Track)
Example 64: 7/4 Groove with 3 layers
Nines
Example 65: 9/8 Modal vamp with two rhythms
Example 66: 9/8 Balkan rhythm
Example 67: 9/4 Modal vamp (Backing Track)
Example 68: Three-part invention in 9/4
Example 69: “Minor Blues” in 9/4 with bass and drums
Example 70: “Minor Blues” in 9/4 with rhythm section
Example 71: Swing feel in 9/4 with rhythm section
Example 72: Straight-8th groove with displacement
Example 73: 9/4 Groove with symmetrical chord pattern
Example 74: 9/4 Groove with chord changes and rhythm section Tens
Example 75: 10/4 Groove with rhythm section
Example 76: 10/4 Groove (Backing Track)
Elevens
Example 77: 11/8 Rhythm with 3 variations
Example 78: 11/8 Rhythm with two layers
Example 79: 11/8 Groove
Example 80: 11/4 Modal groove (Backing Track)
Example 81: Same rhythm as Example 80 with chord changes and rhythm section
Example 82: 11/4 Modal vamp (Backing Track)
Example 83: 11/4 Swing feel with rhythm section
Example 84: Modal groove in 11/4 (Backing Track)
Example 85: Groove in 11/4 with chord changes and rhythm section
Thirteens
Example 86: Modal vamp in 13/8
Example 87: 13/8 variation
Example 88: Groove in 13/4 with rhythm section
Example 89: 13/4 with rhythm section
Fifteens and Seventeens
Example 90: 15/4 Modal vamp 4/4/7 (Backing Track)
Example 90A: 15/4 Vamp (Backing Track)
Example 90B: Bass line in 15/4 (Backing Track)
Example 91: 15/8 Groove (Backing Track)
Example 92: Bass line in 15/4 (Backing Track)
Example 93: Same pattern with chord changes Example 94: 15/4 Swing-feel with rhythm section
Example 95: Modal groove in 17/8 (Backing Track)
Example 96: 17/8 Groove with rhythm section
Example 96A: 17/4 Groove
Mixed Meters
Example 97: “Uneasy” with rhythm section
Example 98: 3/3/4 Pattern with rhythm section
Example 99: “3/3/4/4” Pattern (Backing Track
Example 100: Mixed meter swing feel with rhythm section
Example 101: “5/5/2” Pattern
Example 102: “5/5/3/3” Pattern (Backing Track
Example 103: “5/5/5/4” Pattern with rhythm section
Example 104: 7/4 and 5/4 Pattern
Example 105: “Slipping Glimpser” with rhythm section
Example 106: “Real and Imagined” with rhythm section
Example 107: “Thread” with rhythm section
Example 108: “654” with rhythm section
Example 109: “Real and Imagined” 3/4 vamp plus 1 1/4 bass line
Polyrhythms
Keeping a Practice Journal
Full Compositions