The chief job of the bass drum in jazz is to play kicks, accents, and double accents played on other parts of the drum set. The example below is from the previous page.

While so called traditional music (form the common practice era and beyond) accentuates the fist and third beats in 4/4 meter, jazz, blues, pop, rock, etc. has an accentuation on beats two and …

Be able to play the following rhythms with the left hand, the right foot, or the left hand and right foot in various combinations (long notes on bass, short notes on snare drum or vice-versa; …

Miles Davis Kind of Blue (Columbia Records) Considered one of the finest jazz recordings of all time, Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Jimmy Cobb (drums) demonstrate how a …

Just like the previous modulation exercise , we are going to take a basic 4/4 jazz pattern and modulate it. This time by subdividing quarter notes into quarter note triplets, and then …

This handout is a collection of basic drumset beats that cover the three main areas of popular music, jazz, rock, and Latin. There are several things to remember when practicing these or …

This article describes the ways in which the beat is expressed in jazz, and the relationship between the underlying pulse and the rhythms played by jazz musicians.