The 'Not-Quite-Double' Key Why count using ‘not-quite-double’?

What's so special about it?

NQD COUNT ODD NUMBER When you use two limbs to play an odd-number pattern, The reason it works so well for executing odd rhythms
10 .................. 19 you should feel the 'lead-limb' switching back and forth quickly and accurately is that the right/left switching of 
9 .................. 17 between left and right. the lead limb gives the human body the ‘on/off' effect of 
8 .................. 15 Binary Code. Binary Code (in principle, the same
7 .................. 13 Binary Code used in computers) is the simplest form of 
6 .................. 11 language there is. Synapses (the brain’s equivalent of 
5 .................. 9 switches) are either active or inactive (on or off) ...
4 .................. 7 PERIOD  .
3 .................. 5
2 .................. 3 Binary Code is the language that our brains use to
11-BEAT PATTERN
communicate with our muscles. Thinking of rhythms in
R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L R L .... terms of on/off effectively translates music into the
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 1 + .... language ‘spoken’ by our bodies.
This is what you count, out loud !! 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 2 ....
19 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 1 + 2 ..
  ! * * *
  p  !
17 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 1 + 2 .. (Guitarists should substitute ‘Down pick/Up pick’ for L/R)
15 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 1 + 2 ..   t o
  '  t s
 o  n
13 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 1 + 2 ..
11 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 1 + 2 ..
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9 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 1 + 2 ..   n g
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 e  p
7 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 1 + 2 ..
  r
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5 1 + 2 + 3 1 + 2 .. Against The Odds provides you with your own
3 1 + 2 1 + 2 ..
  K e * = the pulse, the 'one' of the 11, ‘private tutor’, stepping through each odd number 
the beginning of the subdivision, the switching of the in turn. Use it at home, in the car, for pre-gig
lead, the whole ball of wax, the big bang of the universe warm-up ... anywhere you can move your hands
.... do you get it? Do you feel it? and/or feet !!
For instance, to play sevens you count:
Don’t be discouraged if you can’t make it all the
one & two & three & four one & two & three & four  one & two ....  Any of the linearly divided portions of 11 (4+4+3=11, or  way through at first ... it will come, with time and
5+6=11, etc.) can be felt/counted/kept track of, under  effort! Think of it as ‘Tae-Bo’ for drums.
First seven Second seven Third seven the ‘umbrella’ of ‘6 not-quite-doubled’.

Workout 1 Against The Odds PAGE 2 of 2 Text from RhythmKnowledge-Book Two