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The ride beat which the drum great, Shelly Manne said one time is that it's the most
difficult and also the easiest thing a drummer will ever play. You pick the quarter note
up, dig it out of the cymbal to make it dance. If I play a more modern cut I'm still employing
that same technique, but I disguise it. I use a double stroke and I put a triplet feeling
in it, so you're playing a triplet roll. I take the double and I just put the bass drum
in between it. By sliding the finger like this. And also in threes. Fours. Take roughs
and drags. Then I'd make some funk or jazz phrasing.