Another little item inspired by the ongoing Chasin’ the Trane transcription— in which Elvin Jones does this a lot. Here we’ve got both feet in unison, played on the &s of 1 and 3, in the space in the cymbal rhythm. I’ve never practiced that exact move, so it’s a little awkward. What’s cool about dumb easy things you never practiced that are a little awkward is that you can work on them briefly and your body actually learns something new.
The whole idea is to refine the timing of the feet unison on the & of 1/3— don’t crowd the cymbal hits on 2/4. Don’t play this page if you’re not going to be really careful about that. It’s probably a good idea to alternate one or two measures of exercise with one or two measures of regular ad lib jazz time.
Do this together with the other recent page o’ coordination with the repeating RLRR sticking, and add the left foot in unison with the L.
Some of these are a real challenge!