As the title says. :P Just looking for some for one of our solo cadences.

*Edit: Complicated is fine. .__.

Try Snare Science they are always writing short solos and licks and even have a caption lick of the week/month something like that. Original music submissions has a few ideas in it.

Even past snare science, try writing something of your own. It's always nice to write something to challenge yourself as a performer, then when you accomplish the goal that you put in front of yourself BY yourself, it makes the achievement that much more gratifying.

Not only are you learning something new about how to be a better player, but you're also learning something new about how to be a better writer/arranger, too!

When I write any kind of solo or practice spree for myself, I make sure to incorporate 1 or 2 rudiments (Hybrid, or standard 40) in the music that I don't already know how to play to add to the challenge. Before I can even learn my own music, I have to teach myself that rudiment. From there, I add in changing meters/subdivisions (duple to triple, duple to fives, etc.) and just kind of add in the color from there.

Hope that helped a little.
Happy drumming!
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I see what you mean but some of the younger players are not drum and percussion composers as yet. You know that Mozart used to copy music scores when he was very young and it lead him to be a good composer! This might be a good place to start and then they may become original writers eventually.

I did the same thing and used to listen to drum line solos off of recordings and try to write them down. It starts to give you your own ideas after some time. The learning process.

I would suggest starting out basic but then go from there. If you have any foundational-type book such as "Portraits In Rhythm", then you are set. I, personally, would start out with a simple etude, solo, excerpt that is has a strong, underlying rhythm and build of that. Such as: How it was earlier posted that Mozart started out copying scores and later building his foundation from that.

I personally have some solos and etudes that I would be more than happy to share with you. Good luck!