Tiger Bill Speed Lessons

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Tiger BIll’s Speed Lesson #74

This is a workout that's designed to help you improve your ability to place two accents anywhere within a given sticking pattern.

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Tiger Bill Lesson #72; Jazz Ride Speedy Fill-ins

In this concluding segment, we're taking the exercises you practiced from the previous two lessons and applying them to the drumset. If you haven't studied parts one and two yet, please do so before working on this one.

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Tiger Bill Lesson #71; Jazz Ride Speedy Fill-ins

This time we're modifying last month's accented triplet pattern and while it actually includes fewer accents, you'll find that it makes the exercise harder to play. Let's check it out.

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Tiger Bill’s Speed Lesson #70

This is one of my favorite accented triplet patterns. The accents themselves form the basic jazz ride cymbal time pattern while the eighth-note fill-ins add a sense of forward movement that sounds great when applied to the drumset in jazz and other styles.