The Drums - Varying the Bass Drum by 16th Notes

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Hi. I am Wes Crawford and we are now going to explore some 16th note bass drum variations. As we play a rock beats we can also vary our bass drum by 16th notes. In other words, if we are still keeping in common our hi-hat as 8th nodes, one and two and three and four and, the 16th nodes on the E and the R and between. (Music) and we could play our bass drum there. So, it would be right between two hi-hat strokes. One E and, two E and, three E and, four E and, one E and, two E and, three E and, four E and. You probably practice that. Lets do it on the E of two and four. One E and, two E and, three E and, four E and, one E and, two E and, three E and, four E and. Lets try it on the R of all four beats. One E and R, two E and R, three E and R, four E and R, one E and R, two E and R, three E and R, four E and R. Now, lets try in some beats. One, two, three, four; one, two, three, four; one, two, three, four; one, two, three, four and up.

So, that beat has that a little anticipation at the end, it kicks you right before you are expecting it. You use a beat like that in a lot of songs, are in beat type songs and things like that. It will match up the bass very nicely. So, in that beat, I started on beat one, for the first measure but then as it approached to the next measure, I hit the 16th node right before beat one which is the R of four and continued for each measure hitting on the R four - One E and, two E and, three E and, four E and ah; One E and, two E and, three E and, four E and ah; One E and, two E and, three E and, four E and one.

You might also want to hit on the ah right before two and four like one E and two, three E and four; One E and two, three E and four; One E and two, three E and four. See, it has a nice feel to it too. How about on the E after two and four? One two E and three and four E and, one E and two E and three and four E and. See, more closely one E and two E and three E and four E and one E and two E and three E and. We can also explore double hits, where we are hitting twice fast with the bass drum One E and two E and three E and four E and one E and two E and three E and four E and; one E and two E and three E and four E and one E and two and three E and four E and. So, we are going one E and two E and three E and four E and one E and two E and three E and four and. So, try that, the first one is on the beat one E, but then the next time it was on the and, same coordination but a different place in the beats so it feels little different. Again, I am trying to just give enough samples here that you could work up your own 16th node beats. Lets try one more (music). You have heard that kind of a beat before. Boom bah baboom baboom bah, boom bah baboom baboom bah. Lets try it slower, its going boom bah, boom boom, boom boom bah. So, this is a great beat for this reason for your coordination. The first two hits started with a hi-hat, went boom boom; the next one ended with one boom boom. Ill show you with the hi-hat, boom boom, boom boom. Just practice that much over and over, together bass hat bass together. See, together bass hat bass together (music). Whatever, you can make up your own and vary around with it. So, this will get you started with 16th nodes on the bass drum. The key being you have to hit exactly in between the hi-hat hits and now its up to you to go out and listen for beats like this, try to copy them, make up your own.

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