Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to analyse and compare the Drums Solos of Stave Gadd, Vinnie Colaiuta and Dave Weckl on Chick Koreas Humpty Dumpty which the subjects of the analysis are motivic pattern, repetition, motivic development concepts, orchestrating phrases, irregular rhythmic pattern and form.
The analysis result shows that Gadd, Colaiuta and Weckl have some common concept and technic of improvisation such as a motivic pattern, repetition, motivic development of hand and feet pattern, question and answer sentenses, fragmentation and extention, three beat phrases, odd grouping,orchestrating phrases but have the differences in details for example Gadd often use the ideas around the set, Colaiuta is likely to use enhance and Weck frequently use double stop