5 Beat Jazz Drum Comping Ideas

These are really just a few random ideas for 5 beat jazz drum comping patterns with jazz time.

Initially inspired by a section in Gavin Harrison's "Rhythmic Illusions", I want to apply similar ideas to uptempo playing, as well as breaking down the triplet ideas into more usable 2 and 4 bar phrases.

There is a rich seam of ideas here, and I've got some more 5 beat ideas to develop and post in the future, as well as some similar ideas around 7 beat ideas.

Hopefully you'll a few interesting ideas to inspire your own playing and rhythmic explorations.

As always the PDF contains some further exercises and developments. Get it for free below.

This was originally posted on "Jazz Drumming Blog". This post has been revised from the original.