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Jazz Workshop 2

By Nate Brown Exercises jazz

This is the second beat sheet in a series designed to develop jazz drumming skills. Starting from simpler beats and moving to complex, these beat sheets will help you to become coordinated with jazz rhythms against that classic jazz ride pattern. Jazz it up!

Notation Format

Downloadable and printable PDF document

Author

Publisher of OnlineDrummer.com, Alfred Publishing author, Ddrum artist, and veteran Drum! Magazine contributor, Nate is a graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio and holds a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Findlay.

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