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Preparatory Exercises:

Ex. 1: Straight 8th Notes (pages 20&21)

Ex. 1: Swung 8th Notes (pages 20&21)

Ex. 2: 8th Note Triplets (pages 24&25)

Ex. 3: 16th Notes (pages 28&29)

Adaptive Overlays:

Part 1 Exercises (pages 71-76)

Part 2 Exercises (Pages 77-81)

Combined Exercises:

Melodies 1-4: Straight & Swing 8th Note Melodies (pages 84-87)

Melodies 5-7: Swing 8th Note Melodies (Pages 88-90)

Melodies 8-10: Straight 8th Note Melodies (Pages 91-93)

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Videos 1-3: The Overlay Concept; The Clear Melody Concept; Phrasing

Videos 4-6: Sticking Concepts Overview Parts 1 & 2; Alternating Singles

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Videos 10-12: Swiss’diddles; Sweeping Warm-up; Stick Shots

Videos 13-14: Adaptive Overlays; Combined Exercises

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Swung 8ths BPM Song List

Bottom BPM	Top BPM	Song Title	Artist	Album Title	Groove Type	Music Genre	Song Length/Form
42	47	Black and Blue	Gene Harris - The Quartet	Black and Blue	12/8	Contemporary Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
55		Angel Eyes	Chet Baker	Essential Standards	Jazz	Cool Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
62	64	Take the 'A' Train	The Ray Brown Trio	Soular Energy	Jazz	Contemporary Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
65	70	My Funny Valentine	Miles Davis	Cookin' with The Miles Davis Quintet	Jazz	Cool Jazz	36 Bars/AABC
68		All of You	The Modern Jazz Quartet	Prestige and Pablo Recordings	Jazz	Hard Bop	32 Bars/ABAC
69	81	Tin Roof Blues	Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen	The Pie Jazz Albums	Jazz	Dixieland	12 Bars/Blues
72	75	Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?	Pete Fountain	Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?	Jazz	Dixieland	32 Bars/AABA
72	78	Ain't Misbehavin'	Ella and Basie	Sunny Side of the Street	Jazz	Swing	32 Bars/AABA
78	82	Lover Man	Stan Kenton	Sketches on Standards	Jazz	Cool Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
85		There Is No Greater Love	Sonny Rollins	Way Out West	Jazz	Hard Bop	32 Bars/AABA
88	91	I Want A Little Girl	Wynton Kelly	Full View	Jazz	Bebop	32 Bars/AABA
89	98	Little White Lies	Ella Fitzgerald	Twelve Nights In Hollywood (Live)	Jazz	Swing	32 Bars/AABA
90	95	Do Nothin' Til' You Hear From Me	Count Basie	The Best of the Count Basie Orchestra On Denon	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	32 Bars/AABA
93	96	Body and Soul	Coleman Hawkins	Body and Soul	Jazz	Swing	32 Bars/AABA
99	104	The Late Late Show	Sonny Lester	For Strippers Only	Jazz	Swing	32 Bars/AABA
100	102	All Fa'Nuthin	Brandon Fields	Everybody's Business	Funk Shuffle	Fusion	N/A
109	111	Easy Does It	Oscar Peterson	Night Train	Jazz	Hard Bop	12 Bars/ABA
112	114	Chuck E.'s In Love	Rickie Lee Jones	Rhino Hi-Five	Rock Shuffle	Pop Rock	N/A
115		The Way You Make Me Feel	Michael Jackson	The Essential Michael Jackson	Rock Shuffle	Pop Rock	N/A
115	119	Blues For Stephanie	Jeff Hamilton Trio	Hamilton House/LIve At Steamers	Jazz Shuffle	Contemporary Jazz	12 Bars/Blues
115	120	Big Butter and Egg Man	Wynton Marsalis	Standard Time, Vol. 3: the Resolution of Romance	Jazz	Contemporary Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
115	120	Equinox	John Coltrane	Coltrane's Sound	Jazz	Modal Jazz	12 Bars/Modal
116	119	'Deed I Do	Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie	Ella and Basie!	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	32 Bars/AABA
120	122	East of the Sun	Wynton Marsalis	Standard Time Vol. 2	Jazz	Contemporary Jazz	36 Bars/ABAC
120	128	Exactly Like You	Count Basie and His Orchestra	The Best of the Count Basie Orchestra On Denon	Jazz	Swing	32 Bars/AABA
121	123	Babylon Sisters	Steely Dan	Gaucho	Rock Shuffle	Jazz Rock	N/A
125	128	Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams	Sarah Vaughan	The Divine One	Jazz	Swing	32 Bars/AABA
126		Tin Tin Deo	Arturo Sandoval	Dear Diz	Afro-Cuban 6/8	Latin Jazz	32 Bars/ABCB
128	133	Orange Colored Sky	Nat 'King' Cole	The World of Nat King Cole	Jazz	Cool Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
129	134 (shuffle sections)	Fool In The Rain	Led Zeppelin	In Through the Out Door	Rock Shuffle	Classic Rock	N/A
133	137	'Deed I Do	Blossom Dearie	Blossom Dearie	Jazz	Cool Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
135	141	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Beegie Adair	Cheek to Cheek	Jazz	Contemporary Jazz	32 Bars/AB
139	141	Bye Bye Blackbird	Ron Carter	Dear Miles	Jazz	Contemporary Jazz	32 Bars/AB
139	143	Things Ain't What They Used to Be	Count Basie	Montreux '77	Jazz Shuffle	Swing	12 Bars/Blues
139	150	On The Sunny Side of the Street	Diana Krall	Steppin' Out	Jazz	Contemporary Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
140		A Night in Tunisia (Track starts at 16:23 on Youtube)	Dizzy Gillespie	Afro	Afro-Cuban 6/8	Latin Jazz	48 Bars/AABAC
145		Walk Between Raindrops	Donald Fagen	The Nightfly	Jazz/Rock Shuffle	Jazz Rock	N/A
146		Walking On the Moon	The Police	The Police	Rock-Reggae	Pop Rock	N/A
150		Low Down	Thad Jones & Mel Lewis	Live from the Village Vanguard	Jazz	Hard Bop/Big Band	32 Bars/AABA
156	161	Blue Skies	Ella Fitzgerald	Ken Burn's Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	32 Bars/AABA
162	169	Stompin' at the Savoy	Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet	Brown and Roach Incorporated	Jazz	Bebop	32 Bars/AABA
167	172	One O'Clock Jump (1937 Version)	Count Basie and His Orchestra	Count Basie's Finest Hour	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	12 Bars/Blues
167	172	Rosanna	Toto	Toto IV	Rock Shuffle	Classic Rock	N/A
167	172 then accel. to 187	Night Passage	Weather Report	Night Passage	1/2 Time Feel Funk Shuffle	Fusion	N/A
169	180	Blues By Five	Miles Davis	Cookin'/With the Miles Davis Quintet	Jazz	Hard Bop	12 Bars/Blues
172	179	Ideofunk	The John Scofield Band	uberjam	New Orleans Funk	Fusion	N/A
176	183	Cissy Strut	The Meters	The Meters	New Orleans Funk	New Orleans R&B	N/A
176	186	Sweet Sticky Thing	Ohio Players	Gold	Rock Shuffle	Funk/R&B	N/A
177	180	Whispering	Miles Davis	Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951-1956	Jazz	Cool Jazz	32 Bars/AB
178	183	The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines	Joni Mitchell	Mingus	Funk/Jazz Shuffle	Fusion	12 Bars/Blues
178	190	Dance Me Home	John Scofield	Loud Jazz	Funk/Rock Shuffle	Fusion	N/A
178	196	Sunday	Buddy Rich Ensemble	Krupa and Rich	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	32 Bars/AABA
184	194	(Back Home Again In) Indiana	Lester Young & Oscar Peterson Trio	Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio	Jazz	Cool Jazz	32 Bars/AB
187	189	Wood Chopper's Ball	Woody Herman	The Thundering Herds	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	12 Bars/Blues
188	193	Everybody Loves My Baby	Vic Dickenson	The Essential Vic Dickenson	Jazz	Dixieland	32 Bars/AABA
190	195	Goody, Goody	Frank Sinatra	Sinatra and Swinging' Brass	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	36 Bars/ABAC
196	207	S'wonderful	Art Pepper	"West Coast Sessions!" Vol. 3: Lee Konitz	Jazz	Cool Jazz	32 Bars/32 Bars/AABA'
196	201	Doctor Jazz	Harry Connick, Jr.	Eleven	Jazz	Dixieland	32 Bars/AB
206	208	Could You Be Loved	Bob Marley & The Wailers	Gold	Reggae Rock	Reggae	N/A
212	218	Pick Up The Pieces	Average White Band	AWB	Funk	R&B/Soul	N/A
214	220	Original Dixieland One Step	Jack Teagarden	Mis'ry and the Blues	Jazz	Dixieland	32 Bars for Solos/AA'
228	235	Rifftide	Coleman Hawkins	Acetate Master Collection Vol.3	Jazz	Swing	32 Bars/AABA
229	235	Non-Alcoholic	Woody Herman	The Thundering Herds 1945-1947	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	32 Bars/AABA
230	250	Milestones	Miles Davis	Milestones	Jazz	Bebop	32 Bars/AABA (Modal)
249	263	Is It True What They Say About Dixie	Kenny Dorham	2 Horns, Two Rhythms	Jazz	Bebop	32 Bars/AB
250		Superbad	James Brown	Star Time	Rock Shuffle	Funk	N/A
251	262	Undecided	Steve Gadd	Live at Voce	Jazz	Contemporary Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
253	268	I Want To Be Happy	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Jazz Goes to College	Jazz	Cool Jazz	32 Bars/AABA
274	316	Milestones	Ray Brown Trio	Bass Face	Afro-Cuban 6/8 and Jazz	Contemporary Jazz	32 Bars/AABA (Modal)
279	287	Hey I See You Over There	Count Basie and His Orchestra	The Best of the Count Basie Orchestra	Jazz	Swing/Big Band	32 Bars/AABA
314	336	Limehouse Blues	Cannonball Adderly	Cannonball Adderly Quintet in Chicago	Jazz	Bebop	32 Bars/AB
318	330	Chinatown, My Chinatown	Lionel Hampton	Body and Soul - Coleman Hawkins and Friends	Jazz	Swing	32 Bars/AB
332	362	Cherokee	Clifford Brown and Max Roach	Study In Brown	Jazz	Bebop	64 Bars/AABA

Straight 8ths BPM Song List

Bottom BPM	Top BPM	Song Title	Artist	Album Title	Groove Type	Music Genre
52	55	Black Hole Sun	Sound Garden	Telephantasm	Rock	Rock
63		I Get Lonely	Janet Jackson	The Velvet Rope	Hip Hop	Pop/R&B
68		Radioactive	Imagine Dragons	Night Visions	Rock	Alternative/Pop
70	75	When the Levee Breaks	Led Zeppelin	Mothership	Rock	Classic Rock
73		Photograph	Nickelback	All The Right Reasons	Rock	Rock
76	78	Use Me	Bill Withers	Still Bill	Funk/Rock	R&B/Soul
77	79	In Bloom	Nirvana	Nevermind	Rock	Grunge Rock
78		Love Rears It's Ugly Head	Living Colour	Time's Up	Rock	Alternative/Hard Rock
79	84	Kashmir	Led Zeppelin	Physical Graffiti	Rock	Classic Rock
81		Sistamamalover	Lenny Kravitz	Baptism	Rock	Alternative/Funk Rock
81		Sugar, We're Goin Down	Fall Out Boy	From Under the Cork Tree	Rock	Pop Punk
85	86	Pour Some Sugar On Me	Def Leppard	Hysteria	Rock	80's Hard Rock
89	95	Back In Black	AC/DC	Back In Black	Rock	Classic Rock
91	93	Give it away	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Greatest hits	Rock	Alternative Rock
91	94	Express Yourself	Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band	Express Yourself	Funk	Soul/Funk
92		Cult of Personality	Living Colour	Vivid	Rock	Alternative/Hard Rock
94	110	Chameleon	Herbie Hancock	The Best of Herbie Hancock	Funk	Jazz Fusion
95		Bring Me To Life	Evanescence	Fallen	Rock	Hard Rock
95	100	San Francisco River	Airto	Fingers	Bossa/fusion	Brazilian/Jazz Fusion
95	100	Californication	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Californication	Rock	Alternative Rock
95	101	Funky Drummer	James Brown	James Brown 70's Funk Classics	Funk	Funk
98	101	Brazillian Like	Michel Petrucciani	Both Worlds	Samba	Jazz
99	102	Slop Dippin'	Brandon Fields	Everybody's Business	Funk	Jazz/Fusion
100		Second Chance	Shine Down	The Sound of Madness	Rock	Alternative Rock
101	104	50 Ways To Leave your Lover	Paul Simon	Still Crazy After All These Years	Rock/March	Classic Rock
102	104	Shining Star	Earth, Wind & Fire	That's the Way of the World	Funk	Funk
103	107	Rock Steady	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted and Black	R&B	R&B
104		Fields of Gold	Sting	Ten Summoner's Tales	Rock Ballad	Pop Rock
104		La Vida Es Un Carnaval	Celia Cruz	Mi Vida Es Cantar	Cumbia/Salsa	Salsa
106	109	Pick Up The Pieces	Average White Band	AWB	Funk	R&B/Soul
107	110	Cut The Cake	Average White Band	Cut The Cake	Funk	R&B/Soul
110	122	Squib Cakes	Tower of Power	Back to Oakland	Funk	Funk
111	113	Cold Sweat	James Brown	20 All-Time Greatest Hits!	Funk	Funk
111	120	Palladium	Weather Report	Heavy Weather	Funk/Songo	Fusion
112	114	Cuban Blues	Chico O'Farrill	Cuban Blues - The Chico O'Farrill Sessions	Cha-Cha	Afro-Cuban Jazz
114	117	Cream	Prince & The New Power Generation	The Hits/The B'Sides	Rock	R&B/Soul
114	118	Highway to Hell	AC/DC	Highway to Hell	Rock	Classic Rock
116	126	Honkey Tonk Women	The Rolling Stones	Hot Rocks 1964-1971	Rock	Classic Rock
117		Billie Jean	Michael Jackson	Thriller	Rock	Pop Rock
118		Late In the Evening	Paul Simon	The Essential Paul Simon	Mozambique	Classic Rock
119	121	B-Sting	Brandon Fields	Everybody's Business	Funk	Fusion
121	124	Mambo for Roy	Roy Hardgrove	Emergence	Songo	Jazz
122	124	So Nice (Summer Samba)	Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderly	A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness	Bossa Nova	Brazilian
123		777-9311	The Time	What Time is it?	Funk	R&B/Soul
125	130	Song For My Father	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	Bossa Nova	Jazz
126	130	'S Wonderful (Live)	Diana Krall	Live In Paris	Bossa Nova	Jazz
128		Bei Mir Du Schon	Robin McKelle	Introducing Robin McKelle	Cha-Cha/Merengue	Jazz
128	136	Samba Dee's Godda Do It	Tom Kubis Big Band	Slightly Off the Ground	Samba	Jazz
130	133	Samba del Gringo	Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band	Swingin' for the Fences	Samba	Jazz
137	144	Rumba Abierta	Mario Bauza	Tanga	Mambo (2-3 Clave)	Afro-Cuban Jazz
139		Beat It	Michael Jackson	Thriller	Rock	Pop Rock
139	145	Simple Samba	Jim Hall	Hallmarks - The Best of Jim Hall	Samba	Jazz
141		Don't Stand So Close To Me	The Police	The Police	Reggae-Rock	Pop Rock
154	157	Fire	Jimi Hendrix	Are You Experienced	Funk/Rock	Classic Rock
158		Everlong	Foo Fighters	Greatest Hits	Rock	Alternative Rock
163	166	Iko Iko	Dr. John	The Essentials: Dr. John	2nd Line Funk	New Orleans Rock
170		I Write Sins Not Tragedies	Panic! At the Disco	A Fever You Can't Sweat Out	Punk Rock	Pop Punk
170		Rock and Roll	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV	Rock	Classic Rock
185	188	American Idiot	Green Day	American Idiot	Punk Rock	Punk Rock
188	189	Idilío	Willie Colón	Mis Favoritas	Mambo (2-3 Clave)	Salsa
208	212	Vivir Mi Vida	Marc Anthony	Marc Anthony 3.0	Mambo (3-2) Clave)	Salsa
208	214	Pick Yourself Up	Tito Puente	Party At Puente's Place	Mambo	Afro-Cuban Jazz
232	258	Quimbara	Celia Cruz	Greatest Hits	Guaguancó	Salsa
250	258	Havana Special	Chico O'Farrill	Cuban Blues - The Chico O'Farrill Sessions	Mambo (starts 3-2 clave and switches to 2-3)	Afro-Cuban Jazz
252	256	La Chapalera	Alberto Zayaz & Anabiaka	Rumba y Guaguancó	Guaguancó	Afro-Cuban Folkloric
296		Wilfrido Dame un Cosejo	Wilfrido Vargas	Serie 2000: Wilfrido Vargas	Merengue	Tropical

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