StephensDrumShed
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Play a 3/4 swing pattern in the right hand and comp with the left hand/bass drum/hi-hat in the following ways:
-all patterns on snare
-all patterns on kick
-all patterns on hi-hat (w/ foot)
-short notes with hi-hat, long with kick
-short notes with snare, long with kick
After you get this down, switch to brushes and play a 3/4 brush pattern while going back through all of the exercises with the feet.
Since the exercises are phrased in 4/4, you'll be playing over the barline so to speak...some really cool phrases come out of reading it this way.
One of my favorite applications is to play the short notes on a tom, long notes on the cymbals w/ kick, and fill in the spaces with a triplet roll. Really applicable in a melodic swing solo.
-all patterns on snare
-all patterns on kick
-all patterns on hi-hat (w/ foot)
-short notes with hi-hat, long with kick
-short notes with snare, long with kick
After you get this down, switch to brushes and play a 3/4 brush pattern while going back through all of the exercises with the feet.
Since the exercises are phrased in 4/4, you'll be playing over the barline so to speak...some really cool phrases come out of reading it this way.
One of my favorite applications is to play the short notes on a tom, long notes on the cymbals w/ kick, and fill in the spaces with a triplet roll. Really applicable in a melodic swing solo.