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Exercise #5: Playing Time with the Melody in the R.F.

Step 1: Comping the melody with the right foot and the Philly Joe beat

Using all the guidelines from the previous exercise, try playing the melody

in the foot. Be especially careful that the active bass drum part does not drown

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out or interfere with your ride cymbal beat, as the bass drum can easily over-

whelm the ride cymbal.

As well as playing the melody in the foot, also play a cross stick on beat

four of each measure. This is the famous Philly Joe Beat that he used to greateffect in Miless band, usually behind piano solos. Try to fit all this activity into

one solid, swinging groove. Also, watch out for the quarter note triplets on the

bridge, as well as the bar of 2 at the end of the form.

Guide

R.H.= Spang-a-lang

L.H.= Cross-stick on beat four

R.F.= The melody

L.F.= Jazz foot

Example #1 (Measures 15-18)

Notes: Bebop bass drum

Using the bass drum as another comping voice was one of the primary in-

novations of bebop drumming. Kenny Clarke and Max Roach were some of the

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first drummers to use the bass drum this way, and Philly Joe continued to refine

this technique.

Suggested RecordingArt Blakey and Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey Jazz Messengers with Thelonious

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