Part 3 · Meters and progressions

3/8, 2/4, dotted figures, and the roll progressions that close the book

pp.30–46 · 106 lessons · 318 exercises · ≈15 weeks at a lesson a day

Where the book stops being mainly about the hands and starts being about reading. The 3/8 and 2/4 sections are counted in eighths, not quarters. Dotted figures break the even grid you have been playing on for thirty pages. And the progressions run each pattern through lengthening rolls — 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15 strokes — to the last page.

What this part builds

Counting in eighths, in 3/8 and in 2/4, where the pulse is not the quarter note
Flam triplets and long–short dotted figures at a stable tempo
Roll progressions from 5 to 15 strokes, open and closed, in sequence
The same progressions against triplets, which is the book's final test

How to work it

Stage 1 — a click on every note — earns its keep here. Dotted figures and progressions are exactly where a bar quietly shortens, and the click is what exposes it. If a page feels unreadable, the problem is the counting rather than the hands: slow it down until the click and the page agree.

Where it ends

It ends where the book does, on p.46, with the roll progressions played against triplets.

Sections in this part

Combinations in 3/8 pp.30–32
Combinations in 2/4 p.33
Flam Triplets and Dotted Notes pp.34–37
Short Roll Progressions pp.38–42
Short Roll Progressions and Triplets pp.44–46