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.
Hand to Foot Control
Some control exercises between the snare drum and bass drum with straight eighth note feels...
Advanced Comping Ideas
Some examples of how to interpret a rhythmic figure with more advanced comping ideas...
Rolls At Different Tempos
Here is an outline of how to think about rolls at different tempos, while keeping an accent on the last beat of the triplet.
Improving One Hand Endurance
An exercise for developing one hand endurance and technique, based on Stick Control and an idea from Alan Dawson...
The Other Simple Phrase - Extensions
The third in a series working on ways to interpret another simple common rhythmic pattern. Finally: extensions - applying the figure to longer phrases.
The Other Simple Phrase - Phrases and Unisons
The second in a series working on ways to interpret another simple common rhythmic pattern. Second: phrases and unisons.
The Other Simple Phrase - Stickings
The first in a series working on ways to interpret another simple common rhythmic pattern. First: stickings.
Hand to Foot Triplet Co-Ordination 2
This follows on from the previous idea, and works on hand and foot co-ordination with triplets...
Hand to Foot Triplet Co-Ordination 1
A simple but challenging exercise voicing triplets between the hands and the feet...
