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This blog is about music, jazz , rhythm, drumming

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  • 02/16/10--15:10: My First Post – Jazz Project (chan 1259791)

    • Well, here goes!  This is my first post on my new blog.   My reason for starting this blog was originally (and still is at the moment) to document my studies for a project I am doing for an MMus at Trinity College of Music, London.  I intend to keep a daily diary of a [...]

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  • 02/28/10--10:26: “African Influence on the Music of the Americas” by R.A. Waterman… (chan 1259791)

    • This week, I have been mostly reading an essay written in the 1960′s called “African Influence on the music of the Americas” by Richard A. Waterman.  Part of the essay compares European folk song with African tribal song with an explanation of the pervasive use of “Multiple meter” in much of African music compared to [...]

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  • 03/09/10--15:26: Practice Entry (chan 1259791)

    • I started the day today by listening to some recordings of me playing about a month ago.  On one of the recordings, I can hear a light snare drum on the last eighth note triplet of each beat.  It is unconscious because I was unaware I was doing it but I remember Dave Wickins, one [...]

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  • 03/28/10--17:07: A revelation… (chan 1259791)

    • Well, the last week has been a mini-revelation in relation to my MMus project and the Elvin Jones solo I have been transcribing and learning.  As I had alluded to in my last post, I hit a wall when I discovered that the transcription I had almost completed did not work out evenly over the [...]

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