Rock with Stick Control!

A little thing I improvised while warming up for a rehearsal.  All my rock stuff is oriented around getting off the hihat, getting both hands moving around the drums. A lot of students get locked into that crossed over hihat playing orientation. 

We're playing Stick Control patterns on the cymbals and snare drum, and adding bass drum rhythms from another source. Circled notes are played on the snare drum, other notes are played on the cymbals— R on a right side cymbal, L on a left side one:

The bass drum rhythm can be gotten from any normal rock book, like Funky Primer, or Joel Rothman's books. I use Syncopation, playing p. 38 top to bottom using each sticking, with the bass drum playing the melody rhythm (except I usually omit the bass drum notes on 2/4). I might also accent the cymbal hits that are in unison with the bass drum. 

I would want a student to pretty experienced and comfortable with ordinary materials before messing with this, like after they can to play Syncopation p. 38 all the way through with a basic rock feel.   

Fully worked out, this could look really overchoreographed and stupid, like bad YouTuber stuff. The point is to do it enough to open things up, to have some freer movement. 

See my rock drill, and beats to fills pages, and my wrong stickings game for more like this.