The Drums - Rock Beat 2

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So, lets go over this first rock beat. This is rock beat number one. Lets go to rock beat number two and this time we are playing the same thing but we are adding the bass drum in whenever the snare drum hits. So, our coordination kernels are now the right side of the body together that is right hand on hi-hat and the right foot on bass drum, hi-hat alone. Then the next one instead of just being the hands, its going to add the bass drum in, so you will have hihat, snare and bass drum. It has to sound exactly together and then you would follow with a hihat. So, now you have right, together, right, together, right, together. Okay, so lets listen to that, a little bit faster. How about a little faster? Okay, so there is a difference in feel between the two rock beats, they are very similar, but just having the bass drum playing four times out of each beat, each measure gives it a driving feel as compared to two times and by measure I mean a lot of times musicians will count to four, most the time we count to four and I would be counting this. I would counting this one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. We count in a cycle over and over like that; the first beat would be one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.

So, anyway the beat with the bass drum on all four gives a driving feel and the one without the bass drum on all four, but just whenever I say one and three gives a nice balanced feel. One, two, three, four, one, two three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two three, four. So, learn both of these beats and decide is it a dance tune, it needs to be driving, you might want to choose to play the bass drum on all four counts and if not, you might just want that balance feeling between the bass drum and the snare drum.

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