Today we have a page of basic funk grooves in 2/2— cut time, half-time feel, whatever you want to call it. I haven’t given a cymbal part, because we’ll be doing some different things with it, using Syncopation.
For now, play them with any cymbal pattern of your choice. You’ll probably want to start with quarter notes, 8th notes, half notes, and 2 and 4. Once you have the basic groove, continue playing it while omitting the circled bass drum note. Then improvise your own grooves. You could also combine first and second measures from different exercises, but that will eat up a lot of practice time, and I think it’s unnecessary.