Gary Chester's The New Breed (1985) is a system, not a book of patterns. The book contains two ingredients: 11 sung melodies (numbered, written out as snare-line rhythms) and 39 reading patterns (kit grooves with progressively syncopated kick and snare). The system is mix-and-match: pick one melody, pick one reading pattern, and play them together. With 11 × 39 = 429 combinations, you have a year of practice material from one book.
What it teaches that no other book teaches as cleanly: the voice and the limbs are different processors. The melody you sing is the part you own without thinking; the reading pattern is the part you have to read off the page. Combining them practices the actual situation a working drummer is in — playing time while reading a chart, or while a bandleader cues new material.
The exercises below take that idea and demonstrate it in miniature. Each shows a SUNG melody (notated above) and a PLAYED kit pattern (notated below). The notation is two-voice; the upper voice is the melody you vocalize, the lower voice is what your hands and feet play.
As in independence-singing: the upper voice is NOT played. It is sung aloud while the limbs play the lower voice. Read each tip carefully — the singing assignment is the lesson content, not just a hint.