7/8 Ostinato Stick Stuff

Interlocking Chord Rhythms Here’s another rhythmic/harmonic exercise. It uses the basic rhythm of “Most Excellent Weirdness”. This is the basic rhythm: To make things easy we only use two ‘chords’ or rather modes. Here is the pattern for the treble hand. The chord symbols are really only used as a rough guide. This is the…

Advanced Chord Scales For the harmonic understanding and sheer muscle memory on any instrument capable of playing chords, chord-scales are essential. In addition to practicing scales in single notes and triads in various inversions I came up with these ‘thick ambiguous yet diatonic chords’.  The top/treble triads are simple inverted triads. Thus the simple chord…