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Summer Tour!

The Family Crest is going out for our second leg of The War: Act 1 Tour! We kick it off with a festival date and then we go out for 2 weeks in the Midwest and East Coast. See you at the shows!

Here are the dates:

 

July 5-8 Quincy, CA / High Sierra Music Festival // Tickets

July 30 Boston, MA / Sonia // Tickets

August 1 New York, NY / Mercury Lounge // Tickets

August 2 Baltimore, MD / WTMD First Thursday Concert // Tickets

August 3 Washington, DC / DC9 // Tickets

August 4 Philadelphia, PA / Boot & Saddle // Tickets

August 5 Bethlehem, PA / Musikfest // Tickets

August 7 Chicago, IL / Schubas // Tickets

August 8 St. Paul, MN / Turf Club // Tickets

August 9 Milwaukee, WI / The Back Room @ Colectivo // Tickets

August 11 Denver, CO / Larimer Lounge // Tickets

September 22-23 Lake Perris, CA / Same Same But Different Festival // Tickets

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Tour Update!

Greetings from Portland!  Tour started on Saturday in LA at The Moroccan Lounge with Veers and Brother, Sister.  We had a lot of fun sharing all of the new music with everyone who came to the show and getting to play at a new-ish venue!

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We continue the tour tomorrow night at the Doug Fir tomorrow night with Goodnight, Texas.  Tickets and details below:

May 9 / Portland, OR / Doug Fir Lounge^
Tickets: http://ticketf.ly/2HG4XZ6

May 10 / Bellingham, WA / The Shakedown^
Tickets: http://bit.ly/2HMxP1Y

May 11 / Seattle, WA / Tractor Tavern^
Tickets: http://bit.ly/FamilyCrest5_11

May 12 / Spokane, WA / The Bartlett^
Tickets: http://ticketf.ly/2peH0kU

May 13 / Eugene, OR / HiFi Music Hall^
Tickets: http://ticketf.ly/2FU9EOo

* w/ Veers
^ w/ Goodnight, Texas

See you there!

 

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Thomas Pridgen!

The Mars Volta’s Bedlam in Goliath has some excellent drumming.  Thomas Pridgen lays it down on this album.  Every track has some really great licks and grooves, but  I was especially blown away by the drum fills from the beginning of “Wax Simulacra.”

I searched the internet for a long time to see if anyone had transcribed the fills and I couldn’t find one.  Either there were drum covers on YouTube that were adding their own fills on top of the original or they were only close to playing the actual fills but it wasn’t entirely accurate.

So after all of my searching I decided I needed to figure it out, so I slowed it down and transcribed it!  I think I’m pretty accurate on the rhythms and the orchestration of the fills.

This transcription is definitely a good exercise for moving around the kit, playing linear patterns, playing at a fast tempo, and inverted paradiddles/alternating between inverts and singles.  Plus there is some pretty awesome stuff in here to keep in your arsenal.

(Sorry about that big gap, I couldn’t export the image without the rest of the page.)

Here is a link to the PDF

Enjoy!  Feel free to drop a line if you have any questions.

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Philly Joe Jones with Sonny Rollins

Here are some more solos by Philly Joe Jones.  I couldn’t find a recording on youtube, so if you can get you hands on the recording listen closely to Jones’ phrasing.  Jones’ phrasing in his solos make his thoughts complete and they make each phrase he plays make sense!

These solos are full of some standard Philly licks with a lot of great 16th note patterns which can be pretty tricky to play with brushes.  This solo can be a good exercise for playing some 16th note passages with brushes/ getting used to taking solos with brushes.

Pay close attention to bars 4, 11-12, and 19 for their over the bar line licks.

Keep in mind that all of the stickings are suggestions.

(Also I haven’t figured out how to make a key in Sibelius so the round note head is a sizzle cymbal and the “x” note head is a regular cymbal)

Here is the link to a PDF.

Enjoy!

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More Philly Joe Jones

Here are some Philly Joe fours from the Sonny Rollins release Tenor Madness.

These are some signature Philly licks to add to your vocabulary.

Enjoy!

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Here is a link to the PDF

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More Art Blakey!

Here is another transcription from the Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers album.  It has some more Blakey licks that are very similar to the last one, but are still great.

Click here for a recording of the song.

Click here for a PDF of the transcription.

Feel free to leave any comments or questions you have in the comment box or send me an e-mail at apfranceschi@gmail.net.

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Ali Jackson with Wynton Marsallis

I have gotten a majority of the jazz I have from the library at school.  They have a pretty large section with tons of CDs to choose from.  I picked up a Wynton Marsalis album in a huge stack of CDs and this was another great find.

Not only is the whole album a good listen but the drummer Ali Jackson is excellent.  Here a transcription of the intro to the track “Skipping” which has some awesome syncopated licks and some cool hi-hat work. Enjoy!


Click Here for a PDF of the transcription

Feel free to leave any comments or questions you have in the comment box or send me an e-mail at apfranceschi@gmail.net.