In this third and last part about 16th note quintuplets, I’ll show you how to apply the concepts and ideas of the previous lessons in a groove context. The first pattern consists of playing the 16th note quintuplets on the hi-hat (only with the right hand, without accents) playing the bass drum on the first and third beat, and adding the snare on 2 and 4.
Here are three different hi-hat accent combinations.
At a certain tempo range, playing 16th note quintuplets with one hand is very challenging; then we’ll play the previous pattern alternating the right hand and the left hand. The snare will “fall” on beats 2 and 4 with the left hand.
In the following video, I show you the previous two patterns and an additional groove based on ghost notes with a “swung” hi-hat pattern.
Now the final step is to read the pages of Ted Reed’s Syncopation playing the melody of the exercises with the bass drum. The main thing is keeping a steady groove, playing the 16th note quintuplets on the hi-hat with the snare on 2 and 4. Here are the first four bars of exercise one, page 38. The tempo range suggested is 50 to 96 bpm. Keep on drumming!
Here’s the PDF of the lesson.
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