There's all sorts of things that you can do to cure this. You can find plenty of exercise books such as...When In Doubt, Roll...by Bill Bruford. Short of that, one of the best things you can do is to slow down. Playing fast and technical all the time doesn't leave a lot of room for anything else. Slow down when you play a groove...let it breathe. Listen to what you have going on. Keep it going until it is a part of you then let yourself go to explore some patterns at the slower speed. It's amazing what you can come up with by doing this. Give your mind a chance to create something as you move in and out of your groove. In his DVD, Drumset Technique, Steve Smith suggests that you sing something out loud, follow a 12 bars blues pattern and just make something up and play to it. With the big band, I have to play any number of charts that will move at 220bpm and faster. Consequently, I will practice a lot of crazy stuff at those tempos just to increase my stamina. I suffer from the same thing you described. When I do, I just go onto something entirely different...Funk beats just for a change of pace and fun. I also work out on some Samba patterns and other Latin beats. What works well for me is to play fast jazz tempo and morph that into a funk pattern...getting an entirely different feel within the same tempo. I worked this out last night and then got into changing from 4 beats per measure to 5 and 7 beats and bringing it all back to 4 beats. Interesting things begin to happen on the set when you let yourself go. You already know that you want to work doubles and accents...just do it; you'll be amazed by what you come up with and it will all revitalize your playing.
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