Tain Lick

Week 12 of a series I'm calling "52 Licks." 1 new jazz phrase each week for 2013.
This week we step away from the bebop stuff we've been dealing with and tackle a Jeff "Tain" Watts phrase. It works well for soloing and comping.
Although he plays this phrase and a bunch of similar ones on tons of recordings, I grabbed a pretty straight forward version off a Jim Snidero album called "Mixed Bag." It's on the tune "Duff's Thing." In the video, I duffed up the title by calling it "Duff's Tune" but that's not right. He plays it around 5:06 when he's trading with the horns.
Check out a PDF of the phrase here: www.mediafire.c...
The PDF just shows a 4 bar phrase with a simple ending. Tain uses it for varying lengths and starts it on various beats...so you should too!
Good Luck!
Justin

[@mickpauline4630]

Great stuff again Justin, these licks are just excellent; concise, accessible, and best of all.. KILLER when applied to the drum set. Thank you very much sir..

[@baylockbuckingham3650]

Dood u rock!

[@markdavies4194]

Duuudee.. This is great!

[@1roisanscouronne]

Best drum channel ever. Thank you so much

[@francescoscopellitidrums]

Super!!! Go ahead man!

[@flotuc]

yeah!!!!

[@JazzDrummersResource]

@Mick Pauline Thanks a lot, Mick. Hope you're able to get some use out of these on the bandstand.

[@reinaldo05]

Thank you!! You are the man...