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Swing Pairs: Shifting from 4/4 to 12/8
Submitted by Palmito on February 17, 2010 - 23:20.[Update: I'm fixing up this post that rambled off in too many directions - a victim of late night posting. This post deals with the "Swing Pairs" - similar rhythms that shift between 12/8 and 4/4. See here for the exercise and chart of the comparison of rumba clavé and 6/8 clavé....]
Excercise shifting from 4/4 son clavé to 12/8 bembé feel
Submitted by Palmito on February 17, 2010 - 22:54.[Note: This post deals examines the difference between rumba clavé and bembé clavé. For the shift from 4/4 to 6/8, see here.]
Tego Calderon - 6/8 hip-hop
Submitted by Palmito on June 23, 2009 - 18:20.A loooong time ago when I was workng on a show with Daveed Diggs, he mentioned he wanted to create a hip hop song in 6/8 (yes, I know, it's 12/8 for the purists). I remember he stressed that he wanted to make it sound like a 4/4 song to keep that hip-hop head-nodding effect.
Rhythms in progress
Submitted by Palmito on August 17, 2006 - 17:30.So the drum class has been going really well. Class size has been small, which means people get a lot of attention, but we also move along quite quickly. Primarily what we're doing is taking about 3-4 primary rhythms and exploring how to orchestrate these with our instrumentation. It's a fairly straightforward set up - a big bass drum (a large plastic trash can), and a smaller bass drum (ditto); buckets for the high-end drum sound, and then shakers, bells, what have you.
