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Teaches hi-hat, funk, and fill patternsTranscriptions by the author of excerpts from many celebrated recordings by drummers such as Steve Gladd, David Garibaldi, Harvey Mason, Peter Erskine, and many othersTwo CD set contains recordings of all the patterns, transcriptions, and solos as performed by author, Rick LathamAuthor and renowned drummer Rick Latham is your guide, helping you hone your hi-hat, funk, and fill pattern skilllsRick Latham's first drum book, Advanced Funk Studies is one of the definitive books for contemporary drummers
Advanced Funk Studies: Creative Patterns for the Advanced Drummer by Rick Latham is really good for changing things up. It move things around like the accent and brings in a lot of syncopation. I'm not a funk drummer so don't think of the book like that, it's exercises to move you out of the square if you know what I mean.
Future Sounds: A Book of Contemporary Drumset Concepts by David Garibaldi is also excellent
I get a lot from Mike Johnson and Steven Taylor off youtube. Both of them have extensive and varying levels of fills and grooves. Taylor I think has more available for free, especially a list of drum fills. But I've used Mike's site and paid for a few months and it was worth it to me.
There's also a book that I can find in many places outside of my old hometown of Buffalo, NY called Groovezilla. The concept of the book is pretty neat. It's got hundreds of grooves but all the right hand work (HH/Ride) ostanatos are on transparencies. You then take those transparecncies and lay them over the pages in the book you're working on. So one might be a HH upbeat ostinato and another is a 16th HH ostinato. My former drum teacher was a student of his (Jim Lesner, author) so he helped beta test the book for him on a lot of things. It's a great book and a secret weapon in my learning. He'll ship the book if you order it from the website, I got mine in under a week. Great guy, even put a post it not with his email address in case I had any questions or wanted to chat with him.
Good luck
You try this one yet?
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Funk-Studies-Creative-Patterns/dp/0825825539
The Sound of Brushes - Thigpen
http://www.amazon.com/The-Sound-Brushes-Book-CDs/dp/0769294316
Creative Coordination - Copeland
http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Coordination-Performing-Drummer-Copeland/dp/0825803861
Advanced Funk Studies - Latham
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Funk-Studies-Creative-Patterns/dp/0825825539
Big Band Drumming Fill-osophy - http://www.alfred.com/Products/Big-Band-Drumming-Fill-osophy--00-42309.aspx
Nice, man! Sounds like you have an affinity for linear playing. Carter Beauford of Dave Matthews Band is a brilliant linear player. If you are interested, check out the advanced funk studies book on amazon. It's got some gold in it! https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Funk-Studies-Creative-Patterns/dp/0825825539/ref=pd_sim_74_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0825825539&pd_rd_r=GPWW0EYHE6PMA739CSF8&pd_rd_w=gugi2&pd_rd_wg=zC3Kr&psc=1&refRID=GPWW0EYHE6PMA739CSF8
I'll second this. This should be at the top of your list of books to get.
You can spend the rest of your life mastering the first few pages only. You will see dramatic improvement if you open a practice session with 20 minutes or more of this every day.
Also don't limit the exercises to just your hands. Turn them into linear exchanges between feet and hands.
I also recommend the book Advanced Funk Studies.