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Composer: Marcy Nick
The Pulse of Jazz By Nic Marcy
Category: Percussion - Drum Set Method or Collection
Level: Late Elementary / Early Intermediate
With The Pulse of Jazz, drummer/educator Nic Marcy provides a complete method for building a jazz timekeeping vocabulary. Building on other classic jazz methods, the book provides exercises based around common timekeeping approaches from simple to very advanced (called "time lines"), and provides exercises to develop independence and comping facility with each approach. In this way, the book covers topics such as jazz shuffle ideas, Elvin Jones and Tony Williams concepts, displacement, polyrhythmic comping, comping in 3/4, three-and four-way interdependence exercises, metric modulation and more. The included disc contains 21 MP3 tracks (including play-along songs) and 34 QuickTime videos totaling over 20 minutes of running time.
| Standard Time Line with Triplet Comps |
| Standard Time Line Workbox |
| Standard Jazz Time Line with Improvisational Hi-Hat |
| Comping the Walking Bass Line Workbox |
| Comping the Walking Bass Line |
| Workbox for 2-3 Clave/Standard Jazz Ride |
| Workbox for 3-2 Clave/Standard Jazz Ride |
| Comping the Walking Bass Line Part II |
| Three-Part Comping in 3/4 |
| Comping in 3/4 with an Orchestrated Cymbal Pattern |
| Three-Voice Comping Against a Fragmented Time Line |
| Quarter-Note Triplet Hat/Ride |
| Quarter-Note Triplet in the Feet/Ride |
| "Comping the Walking Bass Line" |
| Other Important Jazz Studies |
