ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TERMS
NOTE VALUES
KEY ...
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BLOCK # 7
Basic Beats
Building Up to the Next Level.
2-Bar Patterns
Changing Over to Playing
on the Ride Cymbal
Building Up to the Next Level...
Eighth Notes on the Ride
Building Up to the Next Level.
The Eighth Rest and Beyond.
2-Bar Patterns
Building Up to the Next Level.
Around the Kit
16-Bar Review
Fills
Sixteenth Note Figures Introducing a new figure... the two sixteenth and eighth note!
Introducing a new figure... the eighth note and two sixteenths!
Introducing the dotted eighth and sixteenth note figure!
Building Up to the Next Level
Combining Skills...2-Bar Patterns
Eighth Note Fills
Building Up to the Next Level.
Four on the Kick
Four on the Snare
4-Bar Patterns...Four on the Kick
4-Bar Patterns...Four on the Snare
Four on the Ride
4-Bar Patterns ...Four on the Ride
BLOCK # 8
BLOCK # 9
BLOCK # lO
BLOCK # ll
BLOCK # 12
BLOCK # 13
BLOCK # 14
BLOCK # 15
BLOCK # 16
BLOCK # 17
Opening the Hi Hat
2-Bar Patterns
Sixteenth Note Fills
Building Up to the Next Level
One More Level.
Sixteenths on the Ride
2-Bar Patterns
Variations on the Sixteenth
Note Ride Pattern
Two-Handed Sixteenths on the Hi Hat
Using Sixteenths in Groups of Four
Building Up to the Next Level
Using a New Figure
Sixteenth-Eighth-Sixteenth
2-Bar Patterns
Building Up to the Next Level
Two-Handed Sixteenth Patterns
Sixteeth Note Fills Changing
Drums Mid-Figure
Building Up to the Next Level
Building Up to the Next Level
Up to the Next Level
Ride Variations
2-Bar Patterns
Building Up to the Next Level.
8-Bar Exercise
Leaming New Time Signatures
The Next New Time Signature... 12/8
Fills in 12/8 Time
Triplets...Subdividing One
Count by Three
2-Beat Fills with Triplets
BLOCK # 18
BLOCK # 19
BLOCK # 20
BLOCK # 21
BLOCK # 22
Sixteenth Note Figures and Rests
Building Up to the Next Level.
Moving Up to the Next Level...
2-Bar Patterns
Building Up to the Next Level.
Using Sixteenths in Groups
Groups of Four...Level 2 7
More Building with Groups
Groups of Four
Up to the Next Level.
And Yet Another Level
Combination Fills
Building Up to the Next Level.
Up to Another Level with Fills.
Combinations Using 2-Bar Patterns
Review - 16-Bar Exercises