It pops up quite a lot in Bill's playing. The placement of the bass drum seems to change from time to time. Maybe it's a tempo thing or maybe just a personal choice. Either way it's worth trying all three versions.
I was playing around with this phrase recently and started moving it around the bar, and inverting it, ending up with ideas like this....
Just by shifting everything by an 8th note we can get three very different feeling phrases. Place the bass drum in all three places for each permutation and all of a sudden we've got 9 different phrases to play around with.
By playing 16th notes instead of triplets we can take this one step farther....
We now have a three beat phrase, which works well in 3/4, or perhaps even more so, as a hemiola idea that moves over the bar line.
Send me an e-mail if you'd like a PDF page of all the combinations.
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