Launching to the outer limits of what you can reasonably do with Syncopation, verging on losing the melody rhythm as a point of reference. Or not, see what you make of it.
Using one of the more useful double timing things (the second item on this page of warmups), and changing what we do with bass drum. Reading from pp. 34-45 in Syncopation.
After playing the plain right hand lead version of the book rhythm with hands only, the steps are:
- Do the added 16ths— single Ls = two 16ths / LR, two Ls = LRRL, three Ls = LRRLRL.
- Add bass drum on beat 1.
- Add bass drum to the added RH 16th notes— immediately after the snare drum.
- Add bass drum on any remaining isolated notes of the melody rhythm.
Here, figure it out:
This actually creates a kind of a double time rubadub. The bass drum added on beat 1 is a little random— don’t do it if it creates any kind of problem. Like if there’s not a cymbal note on 1.
On the second page of the pdf I wrote out how lines 2-3 of the p. 38 exercise will go, with each step.
Doing all this systematically while reading full page exercises in Reed is rather difficult— we can give ourselves a pretty wide latitude for errors/inconsistency with that— if you can read p. 38 at a bright tempo with the bass drum part landing somewhere between items 4 and 5, you’ll be doing pretty well.