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Once you've wrestled your way through Lesson 1 and Lesson 2, it's
time to
meet a new challenge.
We agreed that you, the drummer, aren't
restricted to
play only one rhythm pattern ; there are many subdivisions, f.e.
"eighth-note patterns" and "sixteenths", which is our main focus in this
lesson.
You'll notice, of course, the similarities with the bassdrum patterns
you've already learned in the previous lessons, but also with the "fill",
exposed in Lesson 1, which was your first
"sixteenth-note pattern".
That means also that you can combine the
practices like we did in Lesson 2.
O.K., well start here with the first pattern. From Lesson 1 you'll probably still remember how we counted the sixteenth-note pattern:
"One-e-plus-a-Two-e-plus-a-three-e-plus-a-Four-e-plus-a"
r l r l r l r l r l r l r l r l
1)
========== ========== ========== ==========
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X | X X X X X X X | X X X
|-----------------|-----------------------|-------------|
| | | |
SD |:---------------0-----------------------0-------------:|
| |
|-------------------------------------------------------|
BD 0 0
| |
| |
You noticed the "r" and "l" above the notes, indicating "right-hand" and
"left-hand" (so you use the righthand for the SD this
time!), and also that the bar is a little
bit bigger (which is only for convenient reading).
Of course, the bass-drum variations you already know from the previous
lesson(s) can be applied here, too. You make the same combinations as
before by taking for example the first half of pattern #1 of this
page, mixing it with one or two of the following variations.
If you like you can play this second pattern as a whole (in stead of the
first part of pattern#1) and combine it with pattern #3, or whatever
you like.
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
2) ========== ========== ========== ==========
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X | X X X X X X X | X X X
|---------------|-----------------------|----------|
| | | |
SD |:-------------0-----------------------0----------:|
| |
|--------------------------------------------------|
BD 0 0 0
| | |
| _______
3) 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
========== ========== ========== ==========
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X | X X X X X X X | X X X
|---------------|-----------------------|----------|
| | | |
SD |:-------------0-----------------------0----------:|
| |
|--------------------------------------------------|
BD 0 0 0
| | |
| \| |
Being an eighth-note, the bassdrum on the "+"-count of "2" gets a
"flag"!For example alternating "eighth-notes" and "sixteenths" looks like this:
4) 1 + 2 + 3 e + a 4 e + a
_______ _______ ========== ==========
| | | | | | | | | | | |
X X X X X X X X | X X X
HH |---------------------------------------|----------|
| | |
SD |:-------------0-----------------------0----------:|
| | |
|-------------|------------------------------------|
BD 0 0 0
| | |
| _______
Just try to think of other combinations and write them down in the same
way!Next is a combination of the break you've learned in lesson 1 and the "sixteenths" on the hihat:
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
5) ========== ========== ========== ==========
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X | X X X | | | | | | | |
Tom 1 |---------------|----------0--0--0--0---|--|--|--|---|
Tom 2 |---------------|----------------------0--0--0--0----|
SD |:-------------0------------------------------------:|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
BD 0 0
| |
| |
Finally I've got one (or in fact two or more, if you combine them with
others) more pattern for you.
It's a pattern with a bassdrum on every quarter of the measure.
Some of you might recognize the first part of the measure from some
measures in
Billy Jean by Michael Jackson.
6) 1 + 2 + 3 e + a 4 e + a
_______ _______ ========== ==========
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HH X X X X X X X X | X X X
|-----------------------------------------|------------|
| | |
SD |:---------------0-----------------------0------------:|
| | |
|---------------|--------------------------------------|
BD 0 0 0 0
| | | |
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Have fun again with the pattterns and I'll be seeing you at lesson 4,
which will be about:.... TRIPLETS.If in doubt you can always go to:
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