The Jazz Coordination Ritual Part 1 - by Henrique De Almeida

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The Jazz Coordination Ritual by Henrique De Almeida
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The materials presented in this book were originally created to be used in conjunction with my live, in person instruction at The Berklee College of Music in Boston, my online school, TheDrumSetCoach.com, and my brick and mortar school, The Drum Set Coach Academy, in Palmer Lake, CO.
During my many years as a full time Professor at The Berklee College of Music, I had the opportunity to teach students from all over the world. I had a chance to work with college level students and some very advanced students.
During the summer, Berklee offered many options for younger high school drummers. We had short programs like the Percussion Week, the Percussion Weekend, as well as more extensive programs such as the Five-Week Program.
I needed to develop a Jazz coordination curriculum that covered the entire spectrum of students at various levels; from beginners to intermediate to advanced.
I integrated some very basic coordination exercises with some intermediate concepts, plus some more advanced concepts and exercises I learned from my teachers.
Currently, I frequently teach students who have just started to play jazz in school bands. Therefore, those students will work on the first section of this book. Beginner drummers will spend time learning how to keep simple, basic swing beats and work on applying the beats presented here into songs.
High school students who are just starting to play in jazz bands will start working on the basic coordination exercises presented here. They will work on simple concepts such as moving quarter notes, moving eighth notes, and a combination of quarter and eighth notes. The exercises will have phrases that are displaced all over the bar. This will improve their ability to read charts and figures on the snare, while keeping time.
Higher level students will start working on the foot as well, moving notes on the bass drum as well as the snare drum.
As the student progresses, they will start incorporating the hi-hat as an equal part of phrasing and not just time keeping.
Towards the end of the book, there is a section on faster tempo phrasing as well as exercises involving a changing ride pattern. This way of playing incorporates the freedom of all four limbs. Everything is changing: ride, hi-hat, snare, and bass drum.
6 Introduction
This is a very thorough program that takes the drummer from playing very basic jazz beats, to playing modern jazz timekeeping. Here is the progression that you will see in this course:
• Playing basic swing beats.
• Playing basic swing beats with the ability to comp with the snare drum and read figures with the left hand.
• Playing basic swing beats with the ability to comp and read figures with the snare drum, and bass drum.
• Playing swing time feel with the ability to comp with the snare drum, bass drum and hi-hat and read figures with snare and bass drum.
• Play jazz time keeping with snare, bass drum and hi-hat, and comp and read rhythms with snare, hi-hat, and bass drum.
• Play all four limbs freely, improvise, play time keeping, phrase with four- way coordination.
This is a full, complete course that is proven to work. I am currently using this course with young drummers as young as 10 years old to high level touring professionals. I not only teach this to many students, I also practice these materials to maintain my own Jazz playing facility.
Have fun with this, it really works!

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Henrique ALL the knowledge that you present to this world is precious magnificent and EXTREMLY helpful Iam sooo proud of you my precious friend you sir are an ANGEL of the drums I am sure Garey considers it an honor to choose you to continue his legacy.Henrique you are the MAN!!! your eternal brother Lenny25thNelson