David Allen
Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation

A Path to Fluency in Odd Meters and Polyrhythms for All Instruments

David Allen

Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation

A Path to Fluency in Odd Meters and Polyrhythms for All Instruments

Instrumentation Improvisation
Edition Book and Online Audio
Difficulty Level
(medium)
Composer David Allen
Publisher Mel Bay Publications
Order no. MB30923M

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Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation offers the advancing student a method to expand their rhythmic vocabulary and explore some of the more challenging aspects of the modern jazz idiom. It puts rhythm and time-feel front and center, and offers techniques for strengthening your inner metronome, enhancing your time-feel, expanding your rhythmic flexibility, and especially, learning how to improvise fluently in odd meters. The book includes over 120 audio tracks, with 52 backing tracks featuring a superb rhythm section for the student to play along with. There are multiple examples of grooves in each meter, as well as multi-meter exercises, arrangements of standards, an exploration of triplet groupings, polyrhythmic exercises, and full compositions. Includes access to online audio.

Fundamentals
Triplets: Patterns and Groupings
Example 1: Eighth-note triplets grouped in twos
Example 2: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours
Example 3: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours
Example 4: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours using two arpeggios
Example 5: Quarter-note triplets grouped in twos
Example 6: Quarter-note triplets grouped in fours
Example 7: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fives
Example 8: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fives
Example 9: Triplet patterns
Example 10: Triplet patterns
Example 11: Triplet pattern as bass line Backing Track
Example 12: Triplets - rhythmic counterpoint
Example 13: Triplet groove with chords Backing Track
Example 14: African Song" upper lines"
Example 15: African Song" lower lines"
Example 16: African Song" four-part score"
Example 17: Triplet groove Backing Track
Example 18: Triplet groove
Example 19: Rhythmic counterpoint Backing Track
Example 20: Triplet groove Backing Track
Applying Rhythmic Patterns to Standard Forms in 4/4
Example 21: Dotted-Half Blues" with rhythm section"
Example 22: Just One Thing" with rhythm section"
Example 23: Dotted-Quarter Blues" with rhythm section"
Example 24: No or Yes" with rhythm section"
Example 25: No or Yes" full form with rhythm section"
Example 26: G S " in 3/4 with rhythm section"
Using Groupings and Rhythmic Layering in 4/4
Example 27: Pulsion" bass line and drums only" Backing Track
Example 28: Pulsion" A section with rhythm section"
Example 29: Pulsion" B section with bass and drums only" Backing Track
Example 29A: Pulsion" B section with rhythm section"
Example 30: Thread""
Odd Meters
Fives
Example 31: 5/4 Groove with rhythm section
Example 32: 5/4 Groove retrograde Backing Track
Example 33: 5/4 Comping rhythms
Example 34: 5/4 Comping rhythms
Example 35: Two-chord 5/4 groove Backing Track
Example 36: 5/4 Counterrhythms
Example 37: Momentum" bass line with rhythm section"
Example 38: Clave and retrograde clave with rhythm section
Example 39: Comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 40: Comping patterns with rhythm section
Example 41: Dotted-quarter pattern with rhythm sections
Example 42: Three layers in 5/4
Example 43: 5/4 Blues" with bass and drums only" Backing Track
Example 44: 5/4 Blues" with rhythm section"
Example 45: Four variations with rhythm section
Example 46: 5/4 Chord progression Backing Track
Example 46A: 5/4 Chord progression - retrograde clave Backing Track
Example 47: Available Light" with rhythm section"
Sevens
Example 48: Samba 7" with bass and drums" Backing Track
Example 48A: Samba 7" with rhythm section"
Example 49: Group 1 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 49A: Group 2 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 49B: Group 3 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 49C: Group 4 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 49D: Group 5 comping rhythms with rhythm section
Example 50: Samba 7" up-tempo with bass and drums only"
Example 50A: Samba 7" up-tempo with rhythm section"
Example 51: Dotted-quarter pattern in 7/4
Example 52: Pattern grouped in fives
Example 53: 7/4 Clave variation
Example 54: 7/4 Retrograde clave
Example 55: Two-measure 7/4 groove
Example 56: Blues in 7/4" with bass and drums"
Example 56A: Blues in 7/4" with rhythm section Example 57: 7/4 Groove" Backing Track
Example 58: Slow swing feel in 7/4 with rhythm section
Example 59: Bass line without downbeat
Example 60: Bass line without downbeat
Example 61: 7/4 Groove with bypassed downbeat
Example 62: 7/4 Groove Backing Track
Example 63: Funk groove in 7/4 Backing Track
Example 64: 7/4 Groove with 3 layers
Nines
Example 65: 9/8 Modal vamp with two rhythms
Example 66: 9/8 Balkan rhythm
Example 67: 9/4 Modal vamp Backing Track
Example 68: Three-part invention in 9/4
Example 69: Minor Blues" in 9/4 with bass and drums"
Example 70: Minor Blues" in 9/4 with rhythm section"
Example 71: Swing feel in 9/4 with rhythm section
Example 72: Straight-8th groove with displacement
Example 73: 9/4 Groove with symmetrical chord pattern
Example 74: 9/4 Groove with chord changes and rhythm section Tens
Example 75: 10/4 Groove with rhythm section
Example 76: 10/4 Groove Backing Track
Elevens
Example 77: 11/8 Rhythm with 3 variations
Example 78: 11/8 Rhythm with two layers
Example 79: 11/8 Groove
Example 80: 11/4 Modal groove Backing Track
Example 81: Same rhythm as Example 80 with chord changes and rhythm section
Example 82: 11/4 Modal vamp Backing Track
Example 83: 11/4 Swing feel with rhythm section
Example 84: Modal groove in 11/4 Backing Track
Example 85: Groove in 11/4 with chord changes and rhythm section
Thirteens
Example 86: Modal vamp in 13/8
Example 87: 13/8 variation
Example 88: Groove in 13/4 with rhythm section
Example 89: 13/4 with rhythm section
Fifteens and Seventeens
Example 90: 15/4 Modal vamp 4/4/7 Backing Track
Example 90A: 15/4 Vamp Backing Track
Example 90B: Bass line in 15/4 Backing Track
Example 91: 15/8 Groove Backing Track
Example 92: Bass line in 15/4 Backing Track
Example 93: Same pattern with chord changes Example 94: 15/4 Swing-feel with rhythm section
Example 95: Modal groove in 17/8 Backing Track
Example 96: 17/8 Groove with rhythm section
Example 96A: 17/4 Groove
Mixed Meters
Example 97: Uneasy" with rhythm section"
Example 98: 3/3/4 Pattern with rhythm section
Example 99: 3/3/4/4" Pattern" Backing Track
Example 100: Mixed meter swing feel with rhythm section
Example 101: 5/5/2" Pattern"
Example 102: 5/5/3/3" Pattern" Backing Track
Example 103: 5/5/5/4" Pattern with rhythm section"
Example 104: 7/4 and 5/4 Pattern
Example 105: Slipping Glimpser" with rhythm section"
Example 106: Real and Imagined" with rhythm section"
Example 107: Thread" with rhythm section"
Example 108: 654" with rhythm section"
Example 109: Real and Imagined" 3/4 vamp plus 1 1/4 bass line"
Polyrhythms
Keeping a Practice Journal
Full Compositions

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Language: English
Pages: 96
Release: 01.07.2022
Weight: 320 g
Rubric: Methods
ISBN: 9781513468600

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