Check out this VIDEO lesson with Pinback/the Montalban Quintet drummer Chris Prescott - Playing the Sixes, Part 1: Volume and Accent Character buff.ly/1jbyfzN Most of us tackled basic rudimental patterns when we first learned to play the drums. For me, these endless combinations were fun to practice, but I soon wondered why I would choose to play a more complex sticking when I could play a basic single-stroke roll instead. As a young student, the answer eluded me. Even as I transcribed and learned some of my favorite songs, it seemed as if the fills were almost always based on a series of single strokes. This was not the encouragement I needed to stay on track with my rudimental training. Eventually, though, after my technique had developed a bit, I discovered distinct advantages to using the various sticking patterns. The exercise in this video is designed to quickly illustrate a useful application of rudiments in a musical context. It consists of a two-measure pattern in any feel (rock, jazz, samba, etc.), with a 16th-note-triplet fill on beats 3 and 4 of the second measure.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:22:09 +0000
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