The essential drum rudiments explained by the virtual drummer.

Four Jazz drumming lessons about Straight time swing.

Studying the drum rudiments and Jazz coordination is essential for drummers of all musical genres.

This series of lessons for beginners dedicated to essential rudiments in Jazz drumming, contains exercises with classic swing playing. In the previous lessons on Rock coordination we practiced with eighths and sixteenths, in the next ones we will find exercises with triplets.

These lessons deal with the various combinations of strokes on the traditional Jazz pattern called Straight time: a 4/4 measure with a steady right hand swing on the ride cymbal, and every bar second and fourth fourth played by the hi-hat.

The drum sheet splits the staff in two parts: the upper one shows the ride and hi-hat configuration, the lower one shows a combination of snare and bass drum strokes. The first exercise presents just the basic Straight time Jazz pattern, the following ones add various left hand combinations of single and double strokes.
First play the exercises individually, then all together. Press the CHAIN button to have the virtual drum kit play them in sequence.

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