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Antonio Sanchez - Master Series
Antonio Sanchez - Master Series
Antonio Sanchez - Master Series
Master Series
ANTONIO SANCHEZ
Transcriptions & Text by Joe Bergamini Engraving by Willie Rose PDF Design by Joe Bergamini and Willie Rose DVD Produced by Paul Siegel and Rob Wallis
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And against it, play various patterns with your left hand to develop independence. On the DVD, Antonio plays the following phrase as an example: 4
Antonio recommends using the book Syncopation by Ted Reed as a source for left hand practice rhythms. Almost any book with eighth-note rhythms could be used. The Art of Bop Drumming by John Riley and Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer by Jim Chapin are also great resources. You can then move on to working on independence with the bass drum. Play the following ostinato with right hand, left hand, and left foot: 5
And then play patterns from Syncopation (or other books) against this ostinato with your right foot on the bass drum. For clarity, here is what this example would look like if all the parts were written out together: 6
And then play your independence figures against this with your left foot on the hi-hat. You can also approach independence in other styles in the same fashion. For Samba, play the following ostinato: 8
Against this, play independence figures from your books both as written (with a half-time feel), and in a double-time feel. Antonio demonstrates the same 4-bar phrase (from Example 4) against the Samba ostinato in this manner. Heres what the snare part looks like: 9
On the DVD, Antonio plays the Syncopation phrase (Example 4) against this ostinato with both a half-time and double-time feel on the snare: 11
Again, use the figures in various books like Syncopation to practice against these ostinatos.
On the DVD, Antonio plays the following excercise, which uses sliding/displaced rhythms, and gradually adds more notes until the entire measure is covered. This is played on the snare drum along with the above ostinato: 13
Here is an Afro-Cuban ostinato against which the above rhythms (Example 13) can be played on the bass drum, to develop independence with the right foot: 15
Antonio builds his closing solo on various clave patterns, some in odd meters. Here is the basic 3-2 Rhumba clave, which the odd-meter patterns are based on: 18
Here is the first odd-meter pattern, a clave in 5/4 time. The right foot plays the downbeat of each measure on a cowbell played by the right foot. Antonio solos over this pattern. 19
The last two examples show the 7/8 clave. This clave is composed of two bars of 7/8. The first example has the bass drum playing the downbeat of each bar of 7. The second example shows the right-foot cowbell playing only the downbeat of the first bar. 20
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Kenny Garrett Branford Marsalis Danilo Perez David Sanchez Chris Potter Gonzalo Rubalcaba Tito Puente Joshua Redman Conjunto Clave y Guaguanco Michel Camilo Kenny Werner
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Syncopation by Ted Reed (Alfred Publishing Co.) Rhythm and Meter Patterns by Gary Chaffee (Alfred Publishing Co.) The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion and Drum Set by Ed Uribe (Alfred Publishing Co.) The Art of Playing Timbales by Victor Rendon (Music in Motion Films) Stickings and Orchestrations for Drumset by Casey Scheurell (Berklee Press) The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary as Taught by Alan Dawson by John Ramsay (Alfred Publishing Co.)
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