sarboy - firstly I cannot offer any help, but I felt it would be useful to let you know your question had been looked at and to raise it to the top again. I admit the puzzle had never surfaced in my head before, but now, like you, I hope an instrument expert can come along and tell us how 'the impossible' is done. Of course, with 3 drums, only 0-3 and 0-6 would be needed on drums 1 and 2, but 3..................?
There has to be a 'head-smacking' very simple answer
