Crossing the bar groove

Just found a drum transcription I did about 30 years ago, while playing in a Jazz funk band with three brass players.I wrote the part out because the groove crosses the bar line in a sequence 3-3-2. The song is called The Genie by Bobby Lyle (the drummer on the track is Steve Gutierrez.If you would like a copy of the transcription let me know. contact me at [email protected]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5uVWgNrBaA

Thats cool... but it doesn't really cross the bar line'.

I mean it does, but that doesn't mean anything.

The time signature is really just a page numbering system. It was instituted so that musicians could ready multiple lines of music at the same time to keep choirs etc together. It does not and never did directly reflect the meter. There is no way to notate the meter in staff notation. I discuss this further with more detail in my book.

What you are talking about is called the 'tresillo', or triplet in Spanish. It isn't a trilet in the sense that it is 3/2, but instead it is 4/3, but truncated to repeat after only 2/3rd of the sequence. In other words, it is a 4th instead of a 5th, in terms of harmony.