The Drums - Varying the Snare Drum by 16th Notes

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Hi. I am Wes Crawford. Now, were going to talk about 16th note snare drum variations within our rock beats. 16th note snare drum variations will involve hitting in between the hi-hats. If were playing eighth notes on the hi-hat then the E and the I, as we count one E and or two E and after 16th notes thats going to fall right in between the hi-hats. So, if were hitting on one for instance, were going one on the beat, thats with the hi-hat. The ends are one and, two and, three and, four and, but the 16th notes which fall in between would go right in between, one E and, two E and, three E and, four E and, one E and, or one E and, two E and, three E and, four E and. So, make sure you understand how the coordination is going to work. Were now hitting in between the hi-hats. So, here are some examples of some beats (music). You might have noticed it hits right in between; will dissect this a little bit more - One and two and three and four and four one and, two and, three and, four and, four one. Another example might be this (music). Slowly (music). You see, how the snare drum hits right in between those hi-hat hits. So, nothing too strange about it because youre hitting exactly between those two hi-hat hits when youre heading at the 16th note on the snare drum. A few more examples might be something like this (music). Notice that first snare drum we hit there was on the ah one E and ah, two E and three and four and one E ah two and three four and, and it gives sort of a surprise to the beat because were usually hearing the two and the four mainly acts in over the snare drum, but this came one 16th note before, so you can think about the kind of feelings these different beats will give. How about if we hit two times too fast 16th notes, (music). There, in slow motion, we did, (music). So, you want to practice that a little bit (music). Remember, if you have trouble with any beat, two things you can do, slow down, its a great idea to practice these very slowly, and also break it down if theres one part like that thats tricky (music), see (music), thats how the hands fit. Break it down, do it over and over and over until it gets in your muscle memory then put it back together. Lets try one more beat (music). Much busier beat. Lets break it down, so we had all kinds of different examples of how you might hit a 16th note also. Its a lot in that one beat. One E and two, and up three E, and four E, and thats the hands one E and, two and, up three E and, four E and, one E and, two and, up three E and, four E and, one so again just try it slowly (music). I am varying it a little bit but you get the idea. One last topic I want to talk about. If you play fast and you have a lot of a fast beat and you have a lot of 16th notes in it, it gets very cluttered (music). It sounds a little junky at that point. So, what you want to do, keep your important beats like your two and four loud and ghost the other 16th note strokes. Ghost means to play very soft, so we had texture three dimensions to the speed, and it doesnt sounds so cluttered (music). See how I am doing it. The ghost notes are about this high, and then the main notes are that high. So, keep this kind of thing in mind too. You will sound a lot more professional.

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