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I´m re-organizating my written lessons for my students.
Here are some basic rock/funk HH patterns with snare in 2 and 4, for playing BD variations against them.

How do you call beats 3 and 4 ?

1. Rock beat, based in eight notes.
2. Rock/funk beat, based in sixteenth notes (2 hands)
3.
4.

Beats 3 and 4 have 2 basic cascara patterns, so I´m calling them latin 1 and latin 2 HH patterns

I would like to know if there are more standard names for them (beats 3 and 4), with the snare in 2 and 4 and rock/funk oriented BD patterns.

Thanks.

If you played the kick on 1 and 3.... number 4 could be considered a 2 step or polka

Number 3 isn't a common beat to me..So I don't know a standard name for that one

Gary Chaffee identifies them as variations of right hand ostinatos.

I'd call them HH variations or Benny Greb letters. This is the alphabet.


These are the triplet letters.

I always wished there was a sensible name for those two rhythms! I believe Gary Chester referred to them as "Wac-a-chuck" and "Reverse Wac-a-chuck"

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