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.
- 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.
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.
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