Edition: Paperback Book & CD Package, Drums

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.

Level: Late Elementary/Early Intermediate.

Timekeeping Concepts
Quarter-Note Core
Quarter-Note Pulse
Eighth-Note Shuffle
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Compressed 3 Over 4
Hi-Hat Tickling
Tracks and Charts
"Comping the Walking Bass Line"
Workbox for 3-2 Clave/Standard Jazz Ride
3-2 Clave & Jazz Ride
Displaced
Displaced 2
Retrograde
Comping the Walking Bass Line Part II
2 Over 3
Standard 4/4 Over 3/4
Displaced 3
"Gumbo Parade"
"So There"
"Status Q"
Vocabulary
Three-Voice Comping Against a Fragmented Time Line
Quarter-Note Triplet Hat/Ride
Quarter-Note Triplet in the Feet/Ride
Contemporary Timekeeping
Other Important Jazz Studies
Recommended Listening
Comping the Walking Bass Line
Tony
Three-Part Comping in 3/4
Hi-Hat "Let"
Hi-Hat "Trip"
Workbox for 2-3 Clave/Standard Jazz Ride
2-3 Clave & Jazz Ride
Standard Time Line Workbox
Standard Jazz Time Line with Improvisational Hi-Hat
Comping the Walking Bass Line Workbox
Eighth-Note Jazz
Second Line
Elvin
Expanded 5 Over 4
Expanded 5
Expanded 3/4 Over 4/4
Expanded Time in 3/4
"A Burrito Supreme"
Key
Implied Modulation
About the Disc
Foreword
Introduction
Standard Time Line with Triplet Comps
Comping in 3/4 with an Orchestrated Cymbal Pattern
Swingin' Feet
Ting Chic Workbox
Ting Chic