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Ideas and Exercises
For Jazz Drumming

In this section you will find a a lot of jazz drum exercises, looking at everything from applying jazz drum rudiments to jazz comping for drums. There are ideas for jazz drum fills as well as exercises for developing your creativity in playing jazz drum patterns and rhythms.

In these exercises, we are taking a triplet three-beat figure and translating it into different rates - eighth-notes and sixteenth-notes.

Displacing triplet figures by seven beats to create some interesting comping patterns for jazz drumming.

Developing comping ideas for jazz drumming by displacing triplet figures by five beats.

A set of simple two-beat fills around a BeBop kit.

Work on chops and rhythm by moving paradiddle accent patterns through three different rates.

Some further solo ideas using double paradiddles in sixteenth-note phrases. This time working on two bar phrases.

Some solo ideas using double paradiddles in sixteenth-note phrases.

Four-stroke ruffs are useful rudiments. Here we look at playing them to a triplet up-beat.

Further idea developments using triplet-sixteenth patterns under jazz time.

Playing various triplet-sixteenth patterns under jazz time.

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