More than ever convinced that this is basic language— you got singles in 16ths, singles in triplets, and the RLLR-LRRL paradiddle inversion in 16ths. Certainly any time you get into Latin playing, funk or fusion type of playing, it makes a lot stuff happen, not just the obvious hip linear drum groove.
This being the third post with this name, it has two predecessors: the first one, and the second one. I’ve written a bunch of other related things. Kind of an avalanche of stuff, but it’s mostly fast work— you know the pattern, this just shows how to lay it on the drums.
Patterns 1-2 are there just so you can see the plain pattern while looking at this page.
3-6 are the basic bass drum additions, to make a some normal groove patterns. Make them into a 4 feel by playing the pattern twice, and omitting the circled BD note on the second measure— as shown in parttern 11. Make them into a Latin feel by omitting the circled note always, and taking it easy on the SD accent on 2.
7-9 put crashes on the bass drum notes, adjusting the left hand part to accomodate that. For making figures, or just punctuations.
11-13 put the patterns into 4/4. Note that on 12-13 that crash happens on 1 of the 4/4, with the off-beat crashes at the end of the measure. There are other possibilities that we’ll have to get into on another page.
14-19 are some basic moves for making fills. 15 is a phrase-ending move— ending with a bass drum, before the crash on 1. 18 is noteworthy as it joins this pattern with the very useful RLB linear pattern.
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