EXERCISE 1.

This first exercise looks at playing quarter notes on the snare drum underneath the core jazz pattern. Let's learn the core jazz pattern first, it is:

1) The basic jazz ride pattern
2) 2 and 4 on the hihats with the left foot
3) "four on the floor" with the bass drum on all 4 downbeats

And now the first pattern; playing all of the above with snare notes on all downbeats..

EXERCISE 2.

This exercise uses swung 8th notes, otherwise written (particularly at slow tempos) as a group of 3 triplets with the middle triplet as a rest..