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You've come through the first three lessons, hopefully with a lot of
pleasure, didn't you?
Then it's time to try something else, Triplets, for a
change.
Triplets are really something else, because they belong
to a different "family", i.e. 3/4 beats, related to 6/8 beats.
I hope you like those things as much as I do, but will take a few moments
and a lot of practise to play 'em!
You don't learn these triplets just as an exercise.
Of course they love to be (ab)used in solos as well. I hope to encourage
you to play very them nasty and dazzle all your fellow drummers with 'em,
but play MELODICALLY!
There's a little bit of theory necessary to understand what's different
about Triplets:
In fact, you have to think of Triplets as THREE notes
at the same time in which you normally play TWO notes.
So this could be seen as quarter triples in comparison with quarter
beats:
___________
/ 3 \
| | | | |
| | | is almost similar to: | |
0 0 0 0 0
___
/ 3 \
_____ is almost similar to: ____
| | | | |
| | | | |
0 0 0 0 0
It's the best thing, I guess, to start with the
8th-note Triplets. The way we can count the triplets is a
little
bit different in comparison with the patterns you're used to...
So it's time to produce our first
pattern.
You will notice that above
the notes a sort of bow with a number 3 in it is displayed.
That's
a usual way to indicate we're dealing with Triplets.:
1)
1...e...a...2...e...a...3...e...a...4...e...a...
_____ _____ _____ _____
/ 3 \ / 3 \ / 3 \ / 3 \
_________ _________ _________ _________
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Tom1 |---|---|---|--0----|---|---|---|---|--0----|---|---|
Tom2 |--0----|---|-------|---|--0----|---|-------|---|---|
SD |:-----0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0---:|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
R L R L R L R L R L R L
It's just
like you see. You constantly alternate your (R)right and (L)left
hand.Therefore I will give you some patterns and less talking to bring up some ideas...
The following is in fact the same pattern as pattern #1 of this
lesson, but with some small differences. If you did play your way through
the triplets, you can add some things to change the sound...
2)
- Play a bassdrum on every quarternote (1,2,3,4).
- Play different accents ; normally
your accent will be heared on the 1,2,3,4-counts. I do
indicate an "accent" with a ">" above the note played.
So I write down for you the three combinations that can
be made with triplets.
> > > >
i) R L R . L R L . R L R . L R L
> > > >
ii) R L R . L R L . R L R . L R L
> > > >
iii) R L R . L R L . R L R . L R L
The real cleverdicks in the audience will aply this
exercise also to the fill
you've already learned at lesson #1. So in fact you don't play
one fill, but four!!
For example:
> > > >
i) R L R L . R L R L . R L R L . R L R L
3)
1...e...a...2...e...a...3...e...a...4...e...a...
_____ _____ _____ _____
/ 3 \ / 3 \ / 3 \ / 3 \
_________ _________ _________ _________
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Tom1 |---|---|---|--0----|---|---|---|---|--0----|---|---|
Tom2 |--0----|---|-------|---|---|---|---|-------|---|---|
SD |:-----0---0-------0---0----|--0---0-------0---0---:|
|---------------------------|-----------------------|
FT |--------------------------0------------------------|
BD 0 0 0 0
| | | |
| | | |
R L R L R L R L R L R L
B B B B
Again another pattern, much used for soloing also.
4) left-hand first right-hand first
1...e...a... etc. 1...e...a... etc.
_____ _____
/ 3 \ / 3 \
_________ _________
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
Tom1 |----0----|---|---| |----0----|---|---|
|---------|---|---| |---------|---|---|
|:--------|---|--:| |:--------|---|--:|
|---------|---|---| |---------|---|---|
FT |--------0----|---| |--------0----|---|
BD 0 0
L R B R L B
A little help when playing these patterns could be counting this way:
5) 1...e...a... 2...e...a... 3...e...a...
_____ _____ _____
/ 3 \ / 3 \ / 3 \
_________ _________ _________
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
HH X X | X | | X | X
|------------|--| |-------|---|--| |-------|-----|
| | | | | | | | | |
SD |:----------0--:| |:-----0---0--:| |:-----0-----:|
| | | | | |
|---------------| |--------------| |-------------|
BD 0 0 0
| | |
| | |
Finally variations
on a
fill again that could be as devastating as the others you've played.
6)
1...e...a...2...e...a...3...e...a...4...e...a...
_____ _____ _____ _____
/ 3 \ / 3 \ / 3 \ / 3 \
_________ _________ _________ _________
| | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Tom1 |----|---|---|--0---0----|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom2 |----|---|---|-----------|--0---0----|---|---|---|---|
SD |:--0---0----|-----------|-----------|---|---|---|--:|
|------------|-----------|-----------|---|---|---|---|
FT |------------|-----------|-----------|--0---0----|---|
BD 0 0 0 0
Find some patterns you like or combine 'em!
i) R R B R R B R R B R R B
ii) L L B L L B L L B L L B
iii) R L B R L B R L B R L B
iv) L R B L R B L R B L R B
If you want to try another lesson or re-read something:Have fun with the patterns and see you at lesson 5 for even more triplets !!
This lesson is made by Harald
O.
[harald_o@dds.nl], you can E-mail him for any questions, you have.
