{"id":17813,"date":"2019-08-30T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=17813"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:02:32","slug":"how-to-make-your-drum-solos-more-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-make-your-drum-solos-more-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Your Drum Solos More Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FtWgZaZ8ElA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Keith Carlock, best known for his work with Steely Dan, Toto, and other legendary acts, came out to Drumeo to wow everyone with a full lesson on how to make your solos more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Keith&#8217;s biggest way to bring unpredictability and creativity to his solos is to play around with modulation, moving from a 12\/8 feel to a 6\/8 or 3\/4 feel, and weaving in and out of all three. &#8220;It allows for interesting things to happen and shifts the way the time feels to keep things interesting for the player and the listener.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice to a metronome<\/li>\n<li>Sing &#8216;melodies&#8217; between the kick and snare that you might play in that timefeel<\/li>\n<li>Work with existing muscle memory and bring in grooves you&#8217;ve played before<\/li>\n<li>Make your solos more interesting by bringing in new timefeels, melodies, dynamics, repeating sections, textures, and using the rim and hands<\/li>\n<li>Play along to records to solidify your internal clock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lesson Index:<\/strong><br \/>\n0:24 \u2013 SONG: \u201cHey You\u201d by Oz Noy<br \/>\n5:57 \u2013 Introduction<br \/>\n8:30 &#8211; Drum solo #1<br \/>\n19:21 &#8211; Demonstrating modulation<br \/>\n30:00 &#8211; Drum solo #2<br \/>\n34:02 &#8211; Putting it all together<br \/>\n36:29 &#8211; &#8220;Black Cow&#8221; by Steely Dan<br \/>\n41:00 &#8211; Drum solo #3<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Keith:<\/strong><br \/>\nKeith Carlock is a professional drummer and famed author of the critically acclaimed DVD &#8220;The Big Picture: Phrasing, Improvisation, Style, &amp; Technique&#8221;. Keith has recorded and toured with the who&#8217;s who of the music industry, including John Mayer, Sting, Steely Dan, James Taylor, TOTO, Christopher Cross, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Diana Ross, Faith Hill, The Blues Brothers Band, Mike Stern, Leni Stern, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths, Richard Bona, Chris Botti, Wayne Krantz, Rudder, Harry Belafonte, Oz Noy, Larry Carlton, Clay Aiken, Rascal Flatts, Paula Abdul and Grover Washington Jr. Besides his extensive and impressive resume as a professional musician, Keith has also been voted number 1 Pop drummer, number 1 Fusion drummer, and number 1 Best All-Around drummer through Modern Drummer\u2019s Readers Poll.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith plays:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gretschdrums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gretsch Drums<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/zildjian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zildjian Cymbals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evansdrumheads.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evans Drumheads<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vicfirth.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vic Firth Drumsticks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Keith:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithCarlock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Keith-Carlock-44833144532\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/keithcarlock9165\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Carlock, best known for his work with Steely Dan, Toto, and other legendary acts, shows you how to make your solos more interesting with modulation and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":18325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17813"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36226,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions\/36226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}