I was trying to work this up on the fly at the drum set, and it wasn’t happening, and I needed to write it out– so here we are. This is a slightly more practical version of my long Three Camps inversions piece; here I’ve packed all of the inversions into one time through the piece. Hit the link above for practice suggestions.
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