Joe, doubled 5's are not that hard if you a solid base of 3 and 2 underneath.

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is is the foundation to absolutely knowing where the downbeat and upbeat are at
all times. Once you have that, you can't get lost no matter what kind of groupin
gs/stickings or over-the-barline thing you may want to play.
BTW, 5's and 7's fit very nicely together. If you play 4:3 and chain a 3:2 to it
you have 7:5.
If you can tap your foot on both the downbeat and the upbeat of the 5 (that is,
the 1 and the & of 3) it all becomes clear and the sticking won't pose a problem
.
r r l l r|r l l r r|l l r r l|l r r l l
x----x----x----x----x----x----x----x---Addendum: Add 3 taps with the other foot to the above 2 foot taps per bar and we
have our old friend the 3:2 base. Drop out the foot playing the 2 taps and you
are now playing 5 with the hands and 3 with the foot. The 3:2 base makes it poss
ible to play a lot of crazy things without it becoming a mathematical nightmare.
Of course it's up to you to find something musical to do with it...