Ok, here we go!
So, in our first lesson together this term we looked at playing a basic warm-up exercise, which is detailed here and a basic 8th note groove with your lead hand on the hi hat playing (1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and). Remember to emphasis the hi hats on the beat and to hold back a little on the 'ands' just to give it some movement. We're going to do this for 3 bars and then fill on the 4th bar.
To play the fills, you're going to continue playing all of the 8th notes with your lead hand but add other (16th) notes with your following hand.
REMEMBER : YOUR LEAD HAND WILL BE 'KEEPING TIME' by continually playing 1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and during the groove and the fill.
Alex
ReplyDeleteThis is really going to be useful, you can get a bit overwhelmed in a lesson and this allows you to go away and try it again in a "dark room" Is it possible to make the written notes printable? printing off the exercises works well but it would good to able to print off your instructions and things like the warm up routine.
Kind regards
Dave
Dave
ReplyDeleteGlad you like the site.
Yes, is the short answer ... you should be able to print the sheets from any of the posts that I've put up so far.
The Basic Warm-up exercise is detailed here.
See you next week
Alex