Syncopated Lines????

[Zoot H Rollo]

exactly my sarcastically embeded point.

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[Bruce Lindfield]

I liked the ghost note one, but the others seemed pretty dull to me and I'm not sure that some of them actually would count as "syncopated" depending on how you actually played them.

But then I've said before I'm "fuzzy" on syncopation!

 

[Zoot H Rollo]

if they blur the downbeat, then i would consider them syncopated.

as far as dull...well, they ARE only exercises...

but, i've had a lot of fun making seemingly "dull" lines really groove.

its up to the player...

fred

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Originally posted by fhodshon
as far as dull...well, they ARE only exercises...

but, i've had a lot of fun making seemingly "dull" lines really groove.

As well you should with ANY exercise.

 

[jazzbo]

Originally posted by Ed Fuqua
You know I like to think that when Louis was playing in Copenhagen, that the iceberg was sitting in the audience and that's where it got the idea for sink-o-pation.


with gumbo.

...and the way he played just blew my mind. He was doing things at that time that cats had never done before. He would play a line like....

oh forget it.

 

[Bo Bradley]

want to hear some syncopation?listen to Chuck Rainey's bass part on the steely dan tune
"kid charlemagne"
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