Tony Royster Jr. 12 year old solo part imitation (kind of, sort of)

Tony Royster Jr. is a magician on the drum kit, and he's been that way for a long, long time. One of the drum solos that I came across really early on in my drumming life was this tribute to Tony Williams that he laid down when he was 12 years old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8UG22AiHyA

I can see myself doing more videos around this solo in the future because I'm just super duper inspired by it. But today, we'll take a look at the double pedal flow part and the splash groove.

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▶ Drum notation done with Groove Scribe -

Double pedal flow (I say linear in the video, that's incorrect. It's not linear, but he's flowing on the double pedal for sure) - https://gscribe.com/share/hTzBfarn9sFRRhWG8

Splash groove - https://gscribe.com/share/ARZFgM2qjXyewJqb6

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