Now play the right-hand part using the ride cymbal and bass drum. Make the ride and bass drum the lead parts in the pattern by accenting them and playing them with an aggressive feel. The left-hand notes on the snare should be played softly.

This version is the same as Example 2, except that the rack tom is played on beat 4 of the first measure and the snare is played on beat 2 of the second measure.

Now we’ll break away from the cymbals and focus on phrasing the accents on the toms.

In the next example we’ve created the fill by combining the first bar from Example 4 with a variation of the second bar from Example 3.

Here’s a variation of Example 3.

This version is similar to Example 6 but has some subtle changes in the second bar.

Well, that wraps this miniseries on developing high-energy Elvin Jones–type triplet fills. I sure hope you enjoyed it!