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[wolfie]

I like useing Quintuplets. they feel odd but in time. Useing them is the next big thing in the ivolution of drumming.

So try this one for size

R L R L R,lR L R L R,R ll R L R,lR L R L R,

It dosn't look like a lot. the basic form is hand to hand Quints but instead of playing the left hand Quintuplet play it again on the right. this leave you with a double stroke leading into the next beat.

once you get comfy with this then add a flam on the 2nd and 4th beat of the bar.
when your happy with this you can add the flam anywhere, I tend to just keep it on the beat, there no need to get complicated about it.

Its time to add the bass drum at this point. I'm not going to give you anything on this its up to you, I would like to see what you do.

And lastly you'll see 2 left hand strokes on the 2nd note of the 3rd beat, just a little left hand double. again you can put that anywhere. it just adds a little colour to the groove.

[FunkyJazzer]

Ah, it's really weird that you should make this post as I've been going MENTAL on quintuplets lately too. Nice one :D

I've been experimenting with placing accents in every place possible within one 5-note grouping. Starting with 1 accent, and permutating that through all five notes. Then 2 accents, and permutating them, 3 accents, and so on... There is also plenty of scope for placing these accents around the drums (even just high tom and floor tom). You can create really interesting melodies with thoughtful and logical orchestration.

Also, you can take the first chapter of Stick Control and use those stickings (instead of single strokes) to basically repeat what I've written above. Most of these stickings will give you a cool 4 over 5 feeling in 4/4. Play a triplet sticking to get a 3 over 5 feel, and so on. You really can go on forever.

You can also add rests to the phrase - just miss out a selection of notes from the quintuplet. This will get some pretty cool syncopation going.

Once you've done all that (you never will!), do it all again but with septuplets :P. You may aswell do 3s, 4s, 6s, 9s, 10s,11s and 12s while you're at it.

Thanks for the flam idea too! Another idea you just gave me is to convert random notes within the quintuplet (if not all the notes) to double strokes. This would effectively hint at a 10tuplet (sorry, don't know the name), but you can keep the two strokes of the double on the same drum.

Have fun, and thanks again for reminding me how much work I've got to do!

Lloyd.

[wolfie]

Thamks for that,

Wait for the next one, its similer to what you have talked about