Stick control patterns in 9/8

Oh, fine: here are some stick control patterns in 9/8, for practicing with the Bill Frisell loop from the other day:

You can scour these posts for ways of applying these patterns to the drum set. Or play them with brushes on the snare drum with a basic waltz rhythm in the feet, or just with the bass drum on 1 every  two measures— try to cop some of the articulations Joey Baron plays on the recording.

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