How to Play Eighth Note Triplets on Drums

"Welcome to Expert Village I'm Steve Blank drummer in the Cruisers here to talk to you about some advanced drum exercises. This lesson I call 3 against 2 we are really playing eighth notes triplets against eighth notes here I am triplet right side and the eighth notes going on the left side now guess what we'll try this crossed so the right hand hits with the left foot we got the triplets going there and our eighth notes played with the left hand and right foot so pretty good challenge it might take a little while. I am going to try to switch this so I've got the triplet and the right foot and left hand and the straight eight notes on the right hand and left foot of course we want to try some slow fast slow at this but one thing at a time little speed ok now this rhythm can be incorporated into a solo field or an exercise of a looser nature so here I've got the triplets going with my feet just changing it up with the hands this is a very challenging rhythm but the reason we want to learn it is that so much for this musical potential that I am trying to show here it's really because at any time we might want to switch between a triplet field and a straight eighth note or a quarter note field and once we got this rhythm thoroughly in our brain thoroughly wired we can switch between fields anytime."