In the previous lesson, I shared some exercises to master quintuplets. In this second lesson, I show you a system to play and interpret the exercises of Ted Reed’s Syncopation (pages 38 to 45) in 16th-note quintuplets with an alternate sticking (RLRLR, LRLRL). What we’ll do is read the pages of Reed’s Syncopation in 16th-note quintuplets, … More Quintuplets Drum Lesson 2

Here’s the first part of a series of lessons on 16th-note quintuplets, a group of five notes in the space of a quarter note. We start with a warm-up playing quintuplets with an alternate sticking (RLRLR LRLRL) without accents, and the bass drum or left-foot hi-hat on quarter notes. The next step is to add accents, … More Quintuplets Drum Lesson 1