More on that double timing tweak...

Clarifying the method behind that Reed tweak from last week, double timing the very familiar, friendly, happy, easy RH lead Reed system— RH plays book rhythm on a cymbal + bass drum in unison, LH fills in the gaps in the book rhythm on the snare drum. Hopefully you know it well by now. 

The concept is very simple: 

• Play some 8ths as a 16th note double— single 8ths, last 8th in a run with same hand. 
• Play some 8ths as alternating 16ths— single R becomes RL, single L becomes LR. Last 8th, first 8th, or all 8ths. 

We'll use this pattern for the examples: 

Playing single 8ths, or the last in a run of 8ths as a double— LH, RH, both hands: 

You'll never do that before another note on the same hand, so you have to do three in a row. Unless you want to. No reason not to do that too, it's just not what I'm outlining here. 
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Playing a single 8th note L as two alternating 16ths, LR— last 8th, first 8th, or all 8ths.

Or playing a single 8th note R as two alternating 16ths, RL— last 8th, first 8th, or all 8ths: 

And of course you can do whatever of combinations of those things you want, that you can execute while reading from Syncopation:

There are a couple of different ones on that last page. Obviously, the reading part can get rather complicated, so people will want to build it up one step at a time. The thing itself it easy to play, and play fast. That's the whole point. 

It's a lot of stuff, but it shouldn't require a ridiculous amount of time getting through it. It goes fast, and is easy once you have the reading together. And it's not necessarily even about working it out completely, it's about adding some moves when you're improvising. Playing some fast stuff while thinking that simple underlying system.