Hey, Great Vid! I've come across a few examples of this in John Coltrane's playing, but what really brought the idea home to me was when I picked up a copy of "Stick Control" the "Drummers Bible". If you think of the RLRL etc. of a Drummer as a Two Note Melody, say 5 to 1, then the first page abounds in these Rhythmic Displacements. It's kind of like their own Circle of Fifths. I wonder if the guys that played with Melodic Drummers, Drummers who actually play the Melody and the Form, didn't pick this up from Them? I'm a Jazz Violinist, but I learned that Joe Morello was a Prodigy of sorts on violin, before he switched to drums, and he studied personally with the Author of Stick Control. Just picking up a pair of drumsticks and working on a plastic bucket through the first few pages, then taking those Rhythms as Two Note Melodies to my Violin and working on open strings, has me totally convinced that everyone could learn more than a few things from this book. Cheers, Jack
Hey, Great Vid! I've come across a few examples of this in John Coltrane's playing, but what really brought the idea home to me was when I picked up a copy of "Stick Control" the "Drummers Bible". If you think of the RLRL etc. of a Drummer as a Two Note Melody, say 5 to 1, then the first page abounds in these Rhythmic Displacements. It's kind of like their own Circle of Fifths. I wonder if the guys that played with Melodic Drummers, Drummers who actually play the Melody and the Form, didn't pick this up from Them? I'm a Jazz Violinist, but I learned that Joe Morello was a Prodigy of sorts on violin, before he switched to drums, and he studied personally with the Author of Stick Control. Just picking up a pair of drumsticks and working on a plastic bucket through the first few pages, then taking those Rhythms as Two Note Melodies to my Violin and working on open strings, has me totally convinced that everyone could learn more than a few things from this book. Cheers, Jack