If you’re not doing anything with this system, you should give it a try. It’s a way of orchestrating rhythms from Syncopation (or rhythms from wherever) between the snare drum and bass drum, based on an underlying 8th note pattern.
This particular pattern— BSSB-SBBS— supports several areas of playing really well: clave based music, Baiao, New Orleans kind of funk/street beat, funk in general. I’ve posted about it a bunch of times.
So this here is a key for it— all the basic parts of it, which you can use as warm ups for applying the system while reading from Syncopation. Or you can use this page as a complete set of practice patterns by itself.
See also:
Key with Mozambique rhythm
Key for Guaguanco
Tresillo unit – part 2
Practice rhythms: tresillo/cinquillo inversions
Practice rhythms: tresillo combinations – two measures
Practice rhythms: Partido Alto variations
Practice rhythms: Partido Alto logic
More practice rhythms
Key with Mozambique rhythm
Key for Guaguanco
Tresillo unit – part 2
Practice rhythms: tresillo/cinquillo inversions
Practice rhythms: tresillo combinations – two measures
Practice rhythms: Partido Alto variations
Practice rhythms: Partido Alto logic
More practice rhythms
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