In this video, I play some hand/foot combinations using Stick Control by George L. Stone, an application inspired by the John Ramsay book The Drummer’s Complete Vocabulary As Taught by Alan Dawson. Next month I will post a series of exercises about these combinations. Stay tuned!
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 … More Quintuplets Drum Lesson 3
In the previous lesson, I shared some exercises to master quintuplets. In this second lesson, I show you a system to play and interpret the exercises of Ted Reed’s Syncopation (pages 38 to 45) in 16th-note quintuplets with an alternate sticking (RLRLR, LRLRL). What we’ll do is read the pages of Reed’s Syncopation in 16th-note quintuplets, … More Quintuplets Drum Lesson 2
Ted Reed’s Progressive Steps to Syncopation is a great resource for studying different drum aspects: stickings, linear phrasing, coordination, independence, and music styles. There are many interpretations and the possibilities are endless. Exploring Afro-Cuban 6/8 by moving the left hand around the kit to create syncopated rhythms is a great way to enhance your coordination … More Afro-Cuban 6/8 Counter-Rhythms Using Ted Reed’s Syncopation
Here’s the first part of a series of lessons on 16th-note quintuplets, a group of five notes in the space of a quarter note. We start with a warm-up playing quintuplets with an alternate sticking (RLRLR LRLRL) without accents, and the bass drum or left-foot hi-hat on quarter notes. The next step is to add accents, … More Quintuplets Drum Lesson 1
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