The mission: play clave freely with one’s right hand, play samba with your feet, and play anything you wish with your left hand.
So far, in Parts 1 and 2, we’ve explored playing common figures against the above patterns and tried out some musical examples.
You can check out those two steps here:
“Clave Samba Independence Part 1”
and here:
“Clave Samba Independence Part 2”
For Part 3, I thought about the method I used to develop other similar types of independence. The answer? Ted Reed! Ted Reed’s “Syncopation” has been used by drummers for decades to learn to read, to work on technique and to work on independence.
I used it to work on developing samba independence and baion independence, among other things.
Part 3’s worksheet takes the first “Syncopation” Exercise (there are nine in the book) and uses it as source material to play with the left hand. I’ve merely laid out all of the other parts of the puzzle for you: the clave pattern and the bass drum pattern are all written out so you can see how everything lines up. Personally, I needed to do this for myself so I could work everything out.
Give it a whirl. Download the PDF here: Clave Samba Independence Part 3
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 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.
His band, Mark Feldman's LEVEL5, released their debut, "The Sybil EP," in 2019. The EP features Oz Noy on guitar and Will Lee on bass.
For more info: linktr.ee/markfeldman
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