Drumset Exercises

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Jazz Comping Exercise

This worksheet is geared towards beginner jazz drummers, and is meant to serve as a series of prompts for improvisation. Each line demonstrates a concept you can experiment with in order to generate compelling comping ideas without being limited by a lack of sophisticated four-way coordination.

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How to practice this

Coming soon. Practice notes and context for this PDF are on the way. In the meantime, download the sheet and work through it slowly with a free online metronome with subdivisions — that's almost always the right starting point.