If you played the drums, you should be able to play bebop music well. From what I understand, one is supposed to play the chord tones on the downbeat, and the non-chord or passing tones on the upbeat. Rick Beato at You Tube has an excellent tutorial for playing bebop. style during solos. However, this idea is opposed to the concept of appogiatura which requires playing non-chord tones on the down beat. But a good musician should be able to use the appogiaturas like salt and pepper in one's music repertoire.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : Haven't played "Connecticut Half Time" since my high school days. What's wrong with their performance? They did okay. They're playing it at a more traditional slower tempo while if you watch the West Point Hellcats version they play it faster. The back end of that piece though gets really tricky. On 08/20/2017 04:22 AM, hepa7@... mailto:hepa7@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I wonder, how much does ones native language affect ones drumming? Two supposedly Finnish (might well be Swedish speaking, tho) guys trying to play Connecticut Half Time. It sucks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMvBd7cvwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMvBd7cvwM
