http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments/08sixstrokeroll.html `is this what you mean? Or do you mean 6 ( 16th) notes in one quarter note? The latter is a sextuplet.

Rene / NLD

A sextuplets in a 4/4 measure ( i.e. not a 12 / 8 feel) is played as two triplets in one quarter note. Sounds like Ta-te-te Ta-te-te (emphasize is more or less on the Ta). If you would phrase it like Ta-te-Ta-te-Ta-te, this is more like a doubled triplet as it would sound it in 12 / 8 feel.

Ta-te-te Ta-te-te translated to Moeller strokes is like: Down - tap -up , Down - tap -up.
Very helpful timing and groove exercise is: play a 12 /8 feel (against a metronome) and switch to a straight 8th note 4/4 feel after some time. E.g in a AABA or AAB structure: The A plays 12 / 8 groove and the B a straight 4/4 groove or the other way around. Each fourth measure you play a fill with "doubled triplets (in the A) and sextuplets in the B. This is very common in Jazz like music where the A is a Jazz swing and the B is a latin pattern.

Because you change the feel of the groove after the A section it's quite common that you speed up or slow down. I still do this especially at the metronome speed 40 BPM .

Is this of any help?

Rene / NLD

There are many excellent videos on Youtube explaining the Moeller strokes.

A single quarter note subdivided  in a sextuplet: sticking RLRLRL sounds like Ta-te-te-Ta-te-te.

An AABA scheme consists of 32 measures, each letter 8 measures. The AAB or Blues scheme is twelve measures long; each letter represents 4 measures. Choose a std 6/8 blues song of your liking and try to hear it.  The second 4 measures are the same as the first four (that's why AA). The AAB scheme is played throughout the song:

here's an example:
A: Every day, every day .....
A: Every day, every day ......
B: Yeah, you see my worries  .... (if I heard it correctly)

followed by another AAB (try to hear it) than guitar solo  ......  
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/wIaRUVWPuOE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/wIaRUVWPuOE</a>

Why is this important to learn. Many reasons, but one reason is that a drumsolo is  related to the scheme, (counts for any solo BTW).

You mentioned in an another topic that you played along with Igoe's Groove essentials. For some of the tunes Tommy Igoe moves away from the standard logical structures. I don't have this book, but I know this from teacher. Keep this in mind.

Rene / NLD

Thanks so much Zappa, you really helped me out a lot. And yeah Nuclear I understand it now. Thanks to you as well. Zappa, I know what you mean, there are so many different sections in Igoes play-alongs, and they all have at least 5 repeats of like each section, crazy stuff..but just a great tool to learn with and trains you to read. I have another question, since I'm new to charts as well as pretty much everthing else, um, i was just wondering if you know what it means when there is an S with a line through it and the two dots. Tommy has them in a couple of his charts, and new goes into what they mean or do. Thanks again man, seriously...thank you.

-EML.

Thanks a lot man, I completely understand now, helped me a lot with a play-along I jamming to today. Thanks.

-EML.