This past week I had the pleasure of playing on a jazz gig with a great vibraphonist, Sean McCaul. He asked me to play some things that I had back in my memory banks but hadn’t had to use in a while. One of them was this groove.
This is a groove that I came up with years ago when I was spending some time with Gary Chaffee’s fabulous book, “Patterns: Time Functioning.”
I wanted to play something that sounded afro cuban 6/8 ish, but more modern, with a paradiddle funk linear kind of feel. This is what I came up with. I was listening to a lot of Dennis Chambers and Steve Gadd at the time, so it hopefully will sound a little fusion-esque.
There are two versions: 1)The “pure” linear version: no overlapping notes; 2) The not so “pure” linear version: there ARE overlapping notes.
Here is the PDF: A Cool Chaffee Ish Linear Half Time Groove
Please take this groove and use it as you see fit!
He first gained attention as one of the winners of Modern Drummer magazine's very first drum solo contest, judged by Rush's Neil Peart.
He's played with Oz Noy, Will Lee, Alison Krauss, Curtis Stigers, Emily Remler, Joel Hoekstra, GE Smith, Andy York, Marshall Crenshaw, Tony Shanahan, The Drifters, The Marvelettes, Big Brother and The Holding Company, and many other artists.
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