Do you have any favorite books you would recommend?
Gavin Says:
I really enjoyed working through the systems that can be applied to the Ted Reed book "Syncopation".
If you like snare drum exercises there's an excellent (but hard) book by Fred Albright called "Contemporary Studies For Snare Drum".
Top 5
In no particular order
Ted Reed's Syncopation (and the systems that you can apply to it).
Gary Chester's New Breed (similar idea about applying systems over ostinatos)
Gary Chaffee's Patterns Books
Fred Albright's Contemporary Studies for Snare Drum
Future Sounds - David Garibaldi