Once again, please do check out John Wooton's book,
The Drummer's Rudimental Reference Book.
It's an excellent book for developing your hands __and__ feet.
These next ideas are the result of working with my private students at the Musicians Institute. I challenged my private students to actually play in 7, using some common subdivisions. That was interesting! Then we came up with these two bass drum/HH patterns. This first one is a relatively common way of play "samba" in 7.
This is what happens when you play, more or less, the opposite in your feet. Basically, you're playing the BD in between the first, more typical, pattern.
NOW....play with another drummer! You play one of the patterns, the other drummer plays the other pattern. You'll be playing almost all the 16th notes. It sounds great!! and it's challenging. What I was trying to get my students to do was play each pattern four times and then change. I would play exactly opposite of what my students played. Wow! You need to own the 7*8 feel and really use your brains and ears.
And now, we applied a HH foot pattern to the 7.8 bass drum groove. This HH foot pattern comes to me by way of the rhythm of baião. I'll write more about this soon.
And lastly, we'll alternately splash and open the HH, closing where you'd normally play the notes, using this new pattern. The ties show how long each open sound lasts.
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