Here are some things I do over the course of 15-20 minutes playing that jazz waltz telephone page, in addition to just playing repeating measures as written, in 3/4 time:
1. Play each measure in 4/4 by adding the first beat of the following measure.
2. Play each measure in 4/4 by adding the last beat of the previous measure.
3. Play in 2/4 by playing just the first two beats of each measure.
4. Play in 5/4 by adding the first two beats of the next measure.
5. Play each two beats of each line, moving ahead one beat at a time.
6. Play each 3/4 measure within 4/4 time.
The page is just for illustration, you do these looking at the original page. I won't necessarily rigorously play through the entire page each of those ways, but I'll do them for awhile, moving quickly from thing to thing— it's a lot to play through. Obviously you have to have this stuff together already pretty thoroughly, so it's about conditioning, rather than learning new stuff. It's a triplet burnout drill.
I play the cymbal as written through all of those changes, and add hihat as appropriate for the time signature.
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