Another nice addition to your 5/4 practice library: Andrew Hare @ The Melodic Drummer has taken my Stick Control in 5/4 thing a step further, applying an Alan Dawson interpretation to it, filling in the stop that was built in to my idea, and writing it out in the familiar Stone-looking format. It must be time for me to bring this back into my practicing– lately my Elvin thing has been monopolizing all of my 5/4 time.
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Thanks Todd, let me know how it goes. I have been digging it!