Ex. 8 Common Time Beat Pattern Weill start with the R hand on the floor tom and the L hand on the hi-hat. Begin playing straight eighth notes with both hands in unison for 2 measures. On the 3rd bar begin maneuvering your R hand from the floor tom to the snare drum on counts 2 and 4. This will establish the common-time pulse. The "double drop” pattern is created by inserting the R & L bass drums EVENLY between each eighth note stroke. This combination will result in continuous sixteenth note triplets between the floor tom/snare drum and the bass drums. Afier you've developed this pattern, vary its “Lop-1sp nati from 2 bars, to I bar, to 2 counts, while alternating a straight sixteenth note double bass pattern. Common Time Beat/Fill Patterns After each beat exercise I've included a couple of 2-bar patterns demonstrating how you can create fills from these grooves simply by re-arranging the R hand voicings between your floor tom and snare drum. The beat patterns are played during the Ist measure while the fill rhythms are introduced during the 2nd measure. 2 >t Sos ee Ex. 9 Double Time Beat Pattern Again we'll start with the R hand on the floor tom and the L hand on the hi-hat. Begin playing straight eighth notes in unison for 2 measures. On the 3rd bar begin maneuvering your R hand from the floor tom to the snare drum on all the "&" counts. This will establish the double-time pulse. The "double drop" pattern is created by inserting the bass drums EVENLY between each eighth note stroke. This combination will result in continuous sixteenth note triplets between the floor tom/snare drum and the bass drums. After you've developed this pattern, vary its length from 2 bars, to 1 bar, to 2 counts, while alternating it with a straight sixteenth note double bass pattern. 90-130 3 3 3 3 Double Time Beat/Fill Patterns