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That is, playing the standard jazz ride cymbal pattern with your left hand and the snare pattern with your right hand (or vice versa if you already practiced it the opposite way). This week I'd like you to work on perfecting your two-way coordination, until you can easily play any combination that comes to mind.įor more exercises, play the first two sections of Jim Chapin's book Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer.(See the Related Links sidebar.) You should also repeat the exercises on this page (and those in Jim's book) reversing the sticking. Each time you come to a new exercise, concentrate on hearing two distinct parts. Always start each new exercise by playing a couple bars of ride cymbal "time" before attempting to play the snare part. Practice the remainder of the exercises in example #5 below. This is the best way to develop your four-way coordination. If you can develop this ability, you'll find it much easy to play anything that comes to mind without first having to break it down in practice.
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Try to get to the point where you can "hear" the two sounds separately instead of hearing them together as one sound. Start by playing the jazz ride cymbal pattern alone (example #4A) and then add the left stick snare part (example #4B).
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(Note: I included right and left hand designations for simplicity sake, feel free to reverse them if you play the ride cymbal with your left hand.) Take a look at example #4 below. Once you've developed a swinging right hand ride pattern, the next step is to play some patterns against it with your left hand on the snare.
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You'd be surprised at how many drummers have never learned to get a good, swinging sound from this basic jazz ride cymbal pattern. Try to get a good feel for it and make it swing all by itself, before you attempt to add your snare and feet to the mix. Although some drummers play this pattern with an accent on the beats of two and four, you'll find that it swings more with a slight accent on each of the beats of one, two, three, and four as shown in example 3B.īefore you begin working on four-way coordination, I strongly suggest that you practice playing the ride cymbal pattern alone. (You will also see them written as straight eighth-notes in actual drum charts.)Įxample 3A shows the basic jazz ride cymbal pattern. More often than not, this is the way you will see them written in actual drum charts so you might as well get used to interpreting them now. This gives them a nice, rolling jazz feel that falls somewhere in between straight eighth-notes and the overly mechanical sounding dotted eighth-note followed by sixteenth-note pattern.Īlthough I've written the exercises in this lesson in dotted eighth-note/sixteenth-note form, you should use jazz interpretation to play them as if they were written as eighth-note triplets. In other words, jazz interpretation tells you to play all patterns with a triplet feel. Therefore, the standard jazz ride cymbal pattern of dotted eighth-note followed by sixteenth-note (example #2A) is interpreted as shown in example #2B. Here is the approach that I've found works best with my own students.īefore you begin the exercises, you need to understand the basic concept of "jazz interpretation." Whenever you read a jazz drum part, any eighth-notes (see example #1A) have to be interpreted as eighth-note triplets, as shown in example #1B. Many of you have been asking for tips on developing four-way coordination against the standard jazz ride cymbal pattern.