Daniel Glass Teaches Syncopation

A segment from the Drummers Collective Jazz Intensive where Daniel Glass is teaching drum application from the Ted Reed Syncopation book.

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Bruce Becker-A conceptual approach to Ted Reed "Syncopation"

A conceptual approach to Ted Reed "Syncopation" 
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Trading 4's With Syncopation

Exercise for developing your trading 4's using Ted Reeds Syncopation. For more go to: http://haredrums.blogspot.com/2012/02...

Alan Dawson’s Syncopation Jazz (Plus More)

http://www.vicfirth.com/exchange/2012/07/06/alan-dawsons-syncopation-jazz-plus-more/
 

Alan Dawson’s Syncopation Jazz (Plus More)

July 6, 2012 1:41 pm in Drumset by kevin fortunato 

Hey Everyone, thanks for tuning in again this month. Let’s get right to the point, shall we? Today I’m going to demonstrate examples of jazz coordination using Ted Reed’s book “Syncopation”. Just to give you a little history lesson before we get started, the book wasn’t written with these exercises in mind. What you’re about to hear and see are the now famous exercises designed by legendary drummer and teacher Alan Dawson. For those of you who don’t know who Alan is, look him up on wikipedia – he’s arguably the most influential drum teacher of all time, and the former educator to other legendary drummers like Tony Williams, John Ramsay, Bob Gullotti, and Terri Lynn Carrington to name just a few. Unfortunately, I never studied with Alan, but rather it was Bob Gullotti who passed most of this information along to me. (with the exception of Examples 10, 11, and 12 – which I thought of as a result of working with John Riley’s books) And now I’m passing it along to you. Keep in mind that most of these patterns have the traditional “jazz ride cymbal and stepped hihat” played throughout. You will notice that pattern immediately in my hand written version of example 1.

Doubling up a ballad feel with Syncopation

Doubling up a ballad feel with Syncopation 

Happy new year, everybody. I'm practicing a lot of slow tempos lately, so here are some Reed interpretations that will be familiar to all jazz students, written out to suggest double time during a ballad. You'll be using sticks to play the exercises, but once you've gotten these together, you should be able to render something similar with brushes. First, without getting too much beyond the scope of a little blog post, we should clarify a few things about this feel. Give a listen to this recording of Dexter Gordon playing Body & Soul:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-xGPHseCQrI

Mel Brown Beat Syncopation Exercise

Filmed on my iPhone at the 2012 Mel Brown Jazz Workshop, this impromptu jazz drumming lesson features Mel showing how one can take a simple 4 measure beat and turn it into a full week of challenging practice exercises.

Ted Reed's Syncopation book - Creative drum grooves in 12/8