Week 2 - September 2010

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Ok, so this week we've been looking at playing grooves picking out the 16th notes with our bass drum. We first looked at this groove :-

We played it with our lead hand on the hi hat and then picked out the bass drum beats on the 1, the 'a' of 1 then the 'E' and the 'a' of 3 - Remember the third and fourth bass drum beats are in-between the hi hat beats but make sure that the hi hat beats stay constant.

Then we changed the hi hat patterns, as shown below. 

Remember, all of these exercises are to develop your left hand playing, left hand co-ordination and cross-independence.