This is a preliminary item to part 1, but I didn't feel like posting this first. A very simple tweak to the basic RH lead system, filling in the bass drum after each snare drum note. Basically every snare drum note becomes two 16ths, split between the snare and bass. There's an option of filling in a 16th before each snare note as well.
Take it as a bass drum endurance drill. It should be easy to get it up to a pretty bright tempo— with both systems the bass drum should just flutter. If you're leaning into it with a funk kind of touch, you're dead.
You can take this a step further and play the snare drum notes with an alternating sticking— each group of two or more snare hits after a cymbal hit— starting with the left hand (or two lefts, if doing the optional filler in patterns 6/9. There's room to develop that more if the reading materials have more space in them— like in Chuck Kerrigan's excellent Syncopated Rhythms book.
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Hey Todd, would you have any time/energy/desire to scan the Kerrigan book? You’ve always spoken very highly of it but I’ve never been able to track down a copy, save for one that was over 60 bucks. I’m not sure how you feel about the legal/ethical situation here with it being long out of print.
I would keep watching eBay-- it turns up pretty often, not priced outrageously.
Last I heard Kerrigan was having health problems-- he may even have passed away. I'd like to be able to reach him for permission, and get a way for people to pay him. Maybe he has pdfs available. Or, hell, he could have a closet full of unsold copies of it...
Thanks for replying Todd. That’s too bad about Chuck — I would love to just buy the book from him if I could.
While we’re at it, did you ever get to the bottom of the Really Good Music site? A couple years ago you mentioned getting in touch with the Keezer family. Kinda breaks my heart to think about drum books that have been lost to time.
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