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jazz drumming ideas and execises

Ideas and Exercises
For Jazz Drumming

In this section you will find a a lot of jazz drum exercises, looking at everything from applying jazz drum rudiments to jazz comping for drums. There are ideas for jazz drum fills as well as exercises for developing your creativity in playing jazz drum patterns and rhythms.

Using quarter-note triplets we are developing some comping figures in 3/4 time.

Applying quarter-note triplets to 3/4 time is an interesting rhythmic and coordination challenge.

Following on from the previous post, this idea uses triplets to create a three-beat comping pattern you can use to expand your creative vocabulary in your jazz drumming.

This simple comping idea using a three-beat figure is a powerful way to build some tension in your jazz drumming.

In this idea we are voicing a paradiddle between the snare drum, bass drum and hi-hat, to get some jazz drumming comping ideas and independence.

This idea involves moving a triplet accent phrase backwards and forwards in the bar to open up phrasing possibilites.

This is a simple comping idea that plays a two beat figure under 3/4 time.

This is another simple idea for expanding your rhythmic awareness and control. All we are doing is taking sticking control patterns and playing them through what Mark Guiliana calls the "rate loop".

Following on from the previous post, this idea contains a number of ways to create some musical phrases from the triplet triple paradiddle inversions that you can use in your playing.

The triple paradiddle as triplets provides a good coordination challenge and a foundation for developing some interesting comping ideas.

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