Hi, I am Wes Crawford and we are now going to learn our first two rock beats. If you are already know the two-beat, yes thats used in a rock. But rock is mostly based in eighth notes. Now, we are not going to explain how to read notes or anything like that, this whole course is assuming you dont know how to read rhythms, we can talk about that at another time, but we do want to understand all the coordination necessary for learning these beats. So, we are taking that point of view for the very first rock beat; its like the two-beat except for adding a single hi-hat sound in between each of the other two events. So, it will go like this, we will do the right side of our body that is the right limbs hitting on the bass drum and hi-hat followed by another hi-hat. Then will do evenly space not taking these time gaps here, we are doing both our hands together followed by another hi-hat and so you get this. Okay work on that until you are comfortable. Start slowly, you can start slower than I did, thats fine. There will be lots of songs out there that are slow and the more practice you have playing slowly the better feel you will have for these slower songs. Drummers tend to practice everything as fast as they can do it and then they have a pretty good feel for fast songs and can do it, but they sometimes dont feel as good for slow songs. So, it is nothing wrong with practicing slowly then you can speed it up. Do not play these coordination beats and patterns from slow to fast to slow all within the exercise kind of style, because that might subliminally give you the message that its okay to change the speed when you are playing was somebody its not, very generally its not. So, find a tempo or speed of the beat and just stay with it for a while. Remember pat yourself on the back when you can play any of these beats that we show you, or any of these patterns for eight times and yeah, thats a great accomplishment but most songs on the radio are going to be three to four minutes long. So, dont really pat yourself on the back until you know you can stay at the same speed, no mistakes and play the pattern for three or four minutes long.