Here’s an advanced Ted Reed’s Syncopation interpretation useful to develop your independence. It consists of playing long notes on the bass drum and short notes on the snare drum, with the right-hand jazz ride pattern and the left-foot hi-hat in quarter note triplets (starting on the triplet’s second 8th note). The initial measure of the first exercise … More Ted Reed’s Syncopation – Jazz Interpretation (hi-hat in quarter note triplets)