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233. As you all know well, this is one of the most commonly used rudiments. There are two ways of doing this exercise: using the Bounce-Roll, with a more closed sound, and without the Bounce-Roll, dominating each one of the beats. I’d suggest using the system of exercise 230. In this exercise we go from using right hand-left hand to combining with snare drum-bass drum. Do so in an ambidextrous way.
Commentary:
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Play Back (Rod Morgenstein) Displacement – 1716 – E
Here you’ve got some musical backgrounds based on patterns of the great drummer Rod Morgenstein. As you may well have noticed, this pattern was conceived for the use of a double bass drum. Commentary:
4/4 Polyrhythm – 1736 – E
I prepared this base for a demonstration years ago, and the idea was to develop ternary concepts on this binary sequence. This effect usually reminds me of African music. Do not forget Africa!! For us, it’s almost a motherland. Commentary:
19/4 Amalgam – 1712 – E
Up to this section, we have been working at 4/4. From now on, we shall go on to other measures. There is a method of Bob Moses’s which I have found extremely useful for an understanding of this kind of measures: Bob Moses called it “reference point
