Part 3: Combination Patterns In this third installment we’ll combine the two techniques that we’ve been working on: broken doubles and hi-hat substitutions. Some of the grooves incorporate the entire drumset rather than only the bass drum, snare, and hi-hat. This is just a glimpse of what’s possible with these techniques. As I discussed in the first article, the genesis of the ideas came from playing a great deal of jungle/drum ’n’ bass music on a minimal kit. Then I started having fun by applying the patterns to the entire drumset, in different genres of music. Our first pattern is based on the good old paradiddle, only this time we’ll substitute the first right hand of the double with the left foot. We’ll then break up the last two lefts of the pattern between the hi-hat and snare. Advertisement Now let’s look at the double paradiddle phrased in 6/8. This […]