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Anyone else a fan of this exercise? It's on Groove Essential 1.0's CD but I rarely see much talk about it. To me its worth the price of the book.
It's 21 minutes of play along bass and piano playing a simple jazz progression that for each repetition speeds up from super slow to super fast over 21 minutes. They switch up the progression a bit just so it's not annoying. And it tops out at 360 bps.
What I like most is it forces me to to play at the extreme tempos that I don't practice as much, esp the super slow ones. And at the very fast tempos you start to figure out all the little muscle movements to maintain speed or skip notes and still try to swing. So sometimes I'll rewind it to the areas where the tempos are at the edge of forcing me to change a motion and try to find the transition and play around with it. Like, can I go a little longer pulling with my fingers before I have to switch to all down bounce to keep up and vice versa.
And when I'm low on any ideas I find ways to play it differently like:
I'm 57. I wish I had this when I was a young student. Instead I wore out my Pat Metheny and Buddy Rich records looking for the fast tunes.
I wish he had a version on itunes or similar because I'm always looking for my copy on my ipod or am telling people about it.
It's 21 minutes of play along bass and piano playing a simple jazz progression that for each repetition speeds up from super slow to super fast over 21 minutes. They switch up the progression a bit just so it's not annoying. And it tops out at 360 bps.
What I like most is it forces me to to play at the extreme tempos that I don't practice as much, esp the super slow ones. And at the very fast tempos you start to figure out all the little muscle movements to maintain speed or skip notes and still try to swing. So sometimes I'll rewind it to the areas where the tempos are at the edge of forcing me to change a motion and try to find the transition and play around with it. Like, can I go a little longer pulling with my fingers before I have to switch to all down bounce to keep up and vice versa.
And when I'm low on any ideas I find ways to play it differently like:
- Left hand Ride
- Brushes
- double shuffle
- HH on all 4 beats like tony - this one kills me!
- Left foot to BD where I just straddle the FT. It kind of helps the one above in making my mind feel the pulse on the left.
- Someday maybe I can incorporate some clave foot patterns
I'm 57. I wish I had this when I was a young student. Instead I wore out my Pat Metheny and Buddy Rich records looking for the fast tunes.
I wish he had a version on itunes or similar because I'm always looking for my copy on my ipod or am telling people about it.
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