I try not to post too much stuff here on the blog that is already widely available in a million other places, but I recently put this sheet together for a student and figured there was no harm in sharing it with all of you as well. If nothing else maybe it will serve as a reminder to occasionally revisit the "basics".
I generally try to play through anything I give my students to make sure that A) the sheet is right, and B) I'm not asking them to do anything I haven't shed myself. And funnily enough, while not difficult, this sheet showed me that there are certain ride and hi-hat combinations that just never made their way into my day-to-day playing. It's not that I couldn't play them, but they just didn't feel as natural, especially when getting the left hand involved. So it's been fun putting on Max Roach's Jazz in 3/4 Time and take these for a spin.
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