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Excerpt from ‘7/4 (Shoreline)’ by Broken Social Scene

Friday, August 26th, 2005

I wrote this part down for several of my drum students to help explain different time signatures. The part is fairly simple, and best to think of as two separate, alternating 4/4 and 3/4 measures. After that, the main challenge is just getting it up to the recording’s tempo.

excerpt from ‘complement’

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

although entirely in 4/4, delaying snare and bass notes in the second measure creates a fresh, rather simple syncopation.