Shawnlet Bucks

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Shawnlet Bucks (ca. 2004) is a straightforward approach to working on accents and taps in a battery setting that allows you to keep things interesting while maintaining the ensemble’s focus on the important fundamentals.

There is a detailed description on the *.pdf, but the main idea is to string sequences of variations together. Maybe there’s a cool combination that is your go-to accent/tap warm-up, but the sky is really the limit. These recordings provide a few examples:

Example 1. S: 3, 2, 2, 1; T: 1, 2, 1, 3, 1; B: 5, 3. Example 2. S: 5, 3, 2; T: 3, 2, 5; B: 2, 5, 3.
Example 3. S: 1, 1, 4, 2, 2; T: 1, 2, 3, 4; B: 1, 1, 5, 3. Example 4. S: 7, 2, 2, 3, 1; T: 5, 2, 2, 3, 3; B: 4, 8, 2, 1.
Example 5. S: 3, 3, 3, 5, 1; T: 6, 2, 1, 4, 1, 1; B: 9, 3, 2, 1. Example 6. S: 5, 4, 3, 2, 3; T: 3, 5, 4, 5; B: 4, 5, 3, 2, 2, 1

Shawnlet Bucks Example 1 (8 = 3,2,2,1 / 1,2,1,3,1 / 5,3)
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Shawnlet Bucks Example 2 (10 = 5,3,2 / 3,2,5 / 2,5,3)
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Shawnlet Bucks Example 3 (10 = 1,1,4,2,2 / 1,2,3,4 / 1,1,5,3)
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Shawnlet Bucks Example 4 (15 = 7,2,2,3,1 / 5,2,2,3,3 / 4,8,2,1)
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Shawnlet Bucks Example 5 (15 = 3,3,3,5,1 / 6,2,1,4,1,1 / 9,3,2,1)
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Shawnlet Bucks Example 6 (17 = 5,4,3,2,3 / 3,5,4,5 / 4,5,3,2,2,1)
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