A lesson on incorporating quarter note (or ‘drag’) triplets into your left hand jazz comping. Useful when responding to soloists, trading fours, or soloing. Ten exercises with audio examples.

Part one of a series of lessons working on the hand technique involved in playing accents. The first chapter (12 parts) of this series will focus on using one to four accents per beat will playing sixteenth notes with the RLRL and LRLR sticking patterns.