Since the right hand was usually the limb that played the cymbal ostinato, the left hand was free to begin occasionally to punctuate on the snare drum, in support of the musical arrangements, the melody or the improvements of the soloist. Drummers such as Walter Johnson(1904-1977) and Kaiser Marshall(1899-1948) were the pioneers of these early example of "independent," with Count Basie's drummer Jo Jones being the primary exponent of this style, Jones, coupled with bassist paige, guitarist Freddie Greene(1911-1987),and Basie on piano, redefined the role of the rhythm section in jazz through the development of the flat-four feel and Basie's sparse chordal backgrounds. Jo Jones's reputation was built on his uncanny abilities as an accompanist, through the use of brushes and his development of three distinct hi-hat sounds: the closed hi-hat, open/closed combinations and the half-open hi-hat, all being descendants of the hand-held cymbal techniques of the previous decade.