Tony Revisited - Subscribers Only

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Tony Exercises

Of all the lessons I’ve published in the past few years, none has attracted more eyeballs, nor generated more controversy, than my first Tony Williams lesson from 2016.

On its face, it’s not the subject I would’ve predicted would generate so much buzz.

My Chris Dave lessons, or any of the “gospel”-related lessons would’ve been more likely culprits, in my estimation.

But I was wrong.

Thousands of people take to YouTube every month and search stuff about playing the ride cymbal like Tony Williams.

The reason the first Tony lesson generated controversy was that I probably gave short-shrift to a particular aspect of Tony’s technique.

The method I was showing had come from John Riley, who has a different approach to Tony’s famous five-not groups.

All-the-same, I felt it was time to double-back, and both clarify, and give you guys some more resources to play-like-Tony. (Especially since I myself have been revisiting the Lord of Ride.)

Please enjoy this week’s lesson, and make sure you pick up your transcription below:

Tony Exercises

Martial Arts Exercise - Subscribers Only

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Tony/Eric Exercise - Subscribers Only

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Tony/Eric Exercise Transcription

This week’s lesson manages to run afoul of two things-at-once:

It’s something I’m practicing already, rather than a slick transcription of someone else’s playing.

Buuuut I still managed to pirate somebody else’s tune, and get a copyright strike on YouTube.

(If anyone’s interested, I’ll be selling bootlegged copies of Invisible Cinema out of the back of a pickup later. KIDDING.)

All the same, I think you should check it out, and here’s why:

It extends on a concept I debuted last month with the “bet you can’t play this” beat: straight 8ths on the hats, with an implied 16th-note phrase shift.

The point is not, I promise you, to teach you to get fired from gigs. (Though that will be the subject of an upcoming lesson.)

The point is that once you have the skillset in that lesson, things like the exercises in this week’s lesson will be child’s play.

Ok, so why should you care?

If Eric’s beat isn’t enough for you, I humbly submit:

Dana Hawkins

Justin Tyson

Mark

Need I go on?

Get your straight-8th hat stuff going.

Get your life.

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Tony/Eric Exercise Transcription

Sextuplet Licks - Subscribers Only

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Nate Sextuplet Lick

Most weeks, I bring you either licks I lift from other drummers, or concepts I’m messing with.

Every once-in-a-while, though, I’ll catch myself playing something repetitively.

If it sucks, I try to “unlearn” it, or choose other ideas.

If it doesn’t - if I’m like “whoa, did I come up with that?”, I share it with you guys.

This one was a bit of a challenge.

I knew what I was playing, but I decided to go “before” and “after” the licks.

In the “before”, I try to show you what I might have been messing with to come up with the lick.

In the “after”, I take it, and apply it to a different rhythmic context.

Hence, two “sextuplet” licks that work both as (1) proper sextuplets, and (2) subdivided triplets, which subdivide the measure differently, but occur at equivalent rate to that of sextuplets.

So it turned my head around a bit. What I’m trying to say is…I’m sacrificing for you guys;)

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Nate Sextuplet Lick