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Drum Set Solo Vocabulary Vol. 1 - BOP PHRASES

This 10 page E-Handout is comprised of 79 four-measure jazz phrases that can be broken up into 158 shorter two-measure phrases, or even more one-measure phrases. The possibilities of ways to practice these jazz phrases are endless and will provide drummers trying to build their solo language a great resource of ideas to practice that are inspired by the jazz language of the masters like Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Lewis Nash, Bill Stewart, Roy Haynes and many more. These ideas will also inspire you to come up with new ideas of your own. Have fun and explore!! 

 

Here are 3 lessons where I talk about this E-Handout and play some of the phrases:

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

 

NOTE - The phrases in the videos are inspired by the master drummers mentioned earlier, but are not exact transcriptions. In addition, the jazz phrases in the videos are based on the E-Handout, but not identical. Phrase numbers may not directly match. In addition, though there will be some verbatim phrases from specific solos.

 

What's included:
- One 10-page PDF containing 79 phrases (79+79 = 158 phrases)

Made for:
- Drummers

Level: 
- All Levels