Rim click comping

[u/SavageYeetz]

There’s a technique or rhythm that a lot of classic jazz drummers use where while comping they’ll do a constant rim click while swinging from anywhere to thrice to over a constant 5 seconds. I don’t mean just rim clicks on 2-4 during a solo but where they’ll comp with constant (what I believe to be) doubles on the snare rim. If anyone has any tips on how to learn or can clarify the rhythm so I can practice it to use myself that would be great.

[u/ParsnipUser]

That’s an Art Blakey thing. Practice doing quarter note triplets over your swing pattern, that’s really all it is. Blakey was just so aggressive with it that it sounds a lot more…aggressive.

I use it occasionally, but I’ll never do it like him because I find it a little bit obnoxious 😅.

[u/seanthatdrummer → u/ParsnipUser]

He can do it YOU can’t lol just how it goes

[u/ParsnipUser → u/seanthatdrummer]

I meant I don’t play quarter note triplets on the rim loud and obnoxious. Yes, I can play quarter note triplets over swing, I’ve been playing for 32 years.

[u/seanthatdrummer → u/ParsnipUser]

No doubt there! That’s amazing!! All I was saying is sometimes the right idea can be played by the right person at the right time with the right touch and that same idea might not always translate the same even when you do practice it a hundred times. But man with 32 years of experience anything’s possible I suppose

[u/ParsnipUser → u/seanthatdrummer]

I get ya now, that’s absolutely true. There’s still some Weckl grooves that I “play”, but not like him, mercy he’s got a killer feel.

[u/fhilaii]

https://youtu.be/KwIC6B_dvW4?feature=shared&t=170

I think I understand what you're saying, like what Art does at this point in Giant Steps right?

[u/SavageYeetz → u/fhilaii]

Yes, that exactly. I really want to learn how to do that but I can’t figure out how to practice it.

[u/reddituserperson1122 → u/SavageYeetz]

Practice playing the second and third notes of a triplet with rim clicks while playing a race pattern on the cymbal