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Getting it all together – a recap

access_time 2022-05-11T08:52:30.504Z face Wesley Newton
Learning Drums: Getting it all together – a recap By Wesley Newton Published on: Playing the drums from picking up your very first drum stick to perfecting the classic two-time beat to the Waltz groove is like using your creativity in the right direction. Let’s do a recap of everything we have lear...

Get ready to disco

access_time 2022-05-11T08:41:37.598Z face Wesley Newton
Learning Drums: Get ready to disco By Wesley Newton Published on: Play a standard eighth note groove. Add the kick drum to counts 1-2-3-4, otherwise called the four on the floor beat. Next, open the hi-hat with your left foot and play the hi-hat on the & of 1-2-3-4. Experiment with broken 16th note...

Using rudiments in fills

access_time 2022-05-11T08:31:04.439Z face Wesley Newton
Learning Drums: Using rudiments in fills By Wesley Newton Published on: Play a sixteenth note groove. After a bar, orchestrate single strokes (RLRL), double strokes (RRLL) and single paradiddles (RLRR LRLL) on the snare drum, hi-tom, mid-tom and the floor tom as fills, ending with a crash on 1 of t...

Playing ghost and grace notes

access_time 2022-05-11T08:25:47.084Z face Wesley Newton
Learning Drums: Playing ghost and grace notes By Wesley Newton Published on: Play a 4/4 beat in the standard sixteenth note groove (1-e-&-a-2-e-&-a-3-e-&-a-4-e-&-a). Add a soft ghost note on the “e” and “a” of all quarter notes (1-2-3-4). Next, combine ghost notes and grace notes played on the “a” ...

Improvising with flams and drags

access_time 2022-05-11T08:16:41.823Z face Wesley Newton
Learning Drums: Improvising with flams and drags By Wesley Newton Published on: Play two single strokes, one on the right hand followed by one on the left hand and maintain the space between these two notes. This is called a flam. Next, play two quick sixteenth notes leading with your right hand. T...