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    Bill Stewart demonstrates various jazz ride patterns and techniques for timekeeping and embellishment, including simple ride feels, variations, uptempo patterns, accents played with the shoulder of the stick, and left foot hi-hat patterns to develop independence. Exercises are provided to illustrate swing concepts, embellishing the ride, open and tighter ride feels, uptempo variations, shoulder accents, and left foot patterns.

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    Bill Stewart demonstrates various jazz ride patterns and techniques for timekeeping and embellishment, including simple ride feels, variations, uptempo patterns, accents played with the shoulder of the stick, and left foot hi-hat patterns to develop independence. Exercises are provided to illustrate swing concepts, embellishing the ride, open and tighter ride feels, uptempo variations, shoulder accents, and left foot patterns.

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    Bill Stewart demonstrates various jazz ride patterns and techniques for timekeeping and embellishment, including simple ride feels, variations, uptempo patterns, accents played with the shoulder of the stick, and left foot hi-hat patterns to develop independence. Exercises are provided to illustrate swing concepts, embellishing the ride, open and tighter ride feels, uptempo variations, shoulder accents, and left foot patterns.

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    Bill Stewart Modern Drummer PDF

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    Bill Stewart demonstrates various jazz ride patterns and techniques for timekeeping and embellishment, including simple ride feels, variations, uptempo patterns, accents played with the shoulder of the stick, and left foot hi-hat patterns to develop independence. Exercises are provided to illustrate swing concepts, embellishing the ride, open and tighter ride feels, uptempo variations, shoulder accents, and left foot patterns.

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    Modern Drummer Festival 2008 Interviews DRUM KEY:

    Modern Drummer Festival 2008 Interviews

    Bill Stewart
    Swing Timekeeping Concepts
    In Exercise 68, Bill demonstrates a simple way to keep time in a jazz setting.

    68
    Exercise 69 demonstrates ways to embellish the ride pattern.

    69

    Here are two variations of the feel of the ride pattern. Exercise 70 is more open, while Exercise 71 has a tighter feel:

    70

    71

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    Here are some variations for uptempo ride patterns:

    72

    Exercise 6 demonstrates how Bill uses the shoulder of the stick to play an accent on the cymbal without hitting it harder.

    Ride Cymbal Sounds

    73

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    In Exercise 74, Bill demonstrates some left-foot hi-hat patterns while keeping time.

    Left-Foot Independence

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