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Thesaurus Of Rhythm Patterns

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#1 ·
I'm looking for book similar to Nicolas Slonimsky's "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns", just with rhythm patterns instead of melodic patterns. A compendium full of possibly every imaginable variation of rhythm in 4/4 cells, no text, just every page filled with plain rhythmic ideas.

Any suggestions? All I've found were books for beginning drummers and an expensive and obscure book of Schillinger (ISBN 978-0306707827, published 1976). Didn't find any information about it except that it exists.
 
#2 ·
My sax teacher had me playing out of the Louis Bellson book "modern reading text in 4/4 for all instruments".

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Reading-Text-All-Instruments/dp/0769233775

We used it both away from the horn to learn the rhythms (clapping or on bongos etc) and then with the sax to play the phrases using a limited note selection against backing tracks and swapping phrases.

It worked really well and I think you can move onto odd time signatures:
http://www.amazon.com/Odd-Time-Read...Text-Instruments/dp/0769233724/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223971503&sr=1-2

Rhys