#16.17 "Sky is Tumbling"

This afternoon I found myself drumming along to a little bit of Nujabes and thought a couple licks that I came to were worth writing down in the yellow book. I looped the #16.17 lick for a bit on top of the recommended track "Sky is Tumbling".

#16.17 || Track Rec: "Sky is Tumbling"

Note: this is a 3/4 pattern, and the song is obviously not- but if you're reading this blog, I'll assume that you know how to loop a 3-beat pattern over a 4-beat track. If not, well, figure it out!

Also, this is a lick that should be played at "double time" along with the Nujabes track- again, I'm assuming that you can experiment with lining up the eighth notes in #16.17 to either the eighth notes ("normal time") or the sixteenth notes ("double time") on "Sky is Tumbling". As always, it should be pretty intuitive how you should feel these little excerpts relative to whatever the beat is on the Track Rec. [For the record, I, like most people, would probably interpret the bass drum in the Nujabes track to be playing "1--a 2--a 3--a 4--a" etc., making #16.17 most appropriate to play in / feel as "double time"]

The two accented flams back-to-back are helpful with listening to consistency of your grace note placement (in time) as well as consistency of grace note height/sound quality/feel.

Nujabes - Sky is Tumbling @ YouTube