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7 + 2 ROTATION EXERCISE

JEFF SALISBURY
Drumset Instructor
Johnson State College, University of Vermont

This exercise, for bass drum, snare drum and three toms, uses a compound seven-note sticking pattern (RLLRRLL or LRRLLRR) (continued at bottom)


combined with two bass drum notes to create a nine-note pattern - thus the title "7+2." In the audio example, a quarter-note hi-hat pulse has been added so that you can more easily hear the triplet phrasings.