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General
Tap your
foot to the pulse. Clap out the rhythms with your hands.
While using
one hand to tap the pulse, tap out the rhythm with the other hand.
While clapping
out with your hands or tapping your foot to the pulse. Sing the rhythms.
Drummers
Play each
ex. with each hand/foot alone.
Have one hand
or foot play a quarter note pulse while the other hand/foot plays the
exercise. This is good for that ol' independence. You have these options:
RH vs. LH,
RF vs. LF, LH vs. LF, RH vs. RF, LH vs. RF, and RH vs. LF.
- Have 3 limbs
play the quarter note pulse while executing the rhythms with the free
one.

- You can also
use one of the exercises as the reference along with the quarter note
pulse. Say you play no. 9 from the sixteenths group with a limb then
play the other exercises with another limb.

- Use a bit of
orchestration. As the limb that is playing the written rhythm goes along,
move the limb between/around different sound sources.

- Use a Rudiment
in one of the rhythms. Use a single or double stroke roll. Try a paradiddle
or flam taps.

- Use the rhythms
as accents in rolls. Double or single stroke rolls.

- Play the rhythms in an alternating fashion between different limbs
while keeping a quarter note pulse with the remaining 2 limbs. An example
would be to play quarters with the right and left hands while you alternate
the figure between the right and left foot in a single stroke manner.

- You can substitute
an exercise rhythm for one of the quarter note pulses in the above example.

- Use different
rudiments between the limbs in the above example. Such as a paradiddle.

- Play the rhythms
in a cycling motion between 3 limbs while the remaining limb plays the
pulse.
- All your limbs can cycle through the rhythm while the metronome keeps
the pulse.

I'm currently working
on getting this put up for more drummer related lessons.
Pitched Instruments
- Play your scales
in the rhythms. Up,down, back and forth; as far as your instruments
range allows.
- Play your arpeggios
in the rhythms.

- If you play a
instrument where both hands are free (such as piano), play a quarter
note pulse in one hand (on any note or chord) and play the rhythms with
the other hand. An example would be play the root note of an arpeggio
or scale with one hand and play the arpeggio or scale over it in rhythm
with the other hand.

- Use an arpeggio
for the quarter note pulse while playing the arpeggio or scales in rhythm.

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