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Tony/Eric Exercise - Subscribers Only
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This week’s lesson manages to run afoul of two things-at-once:
It’s something I’m practicing already, rather than a slick transcription of someone else’s playing.
Buuuut I still managed to pirate somebody else’s tune, and get a copyright strike on YouTube.
(If anyone’s interested, I’ll be selling bootlegged copies of Invisible Cinema out of the back of a pickup later. KIDDING.)
All the same, I think you should check it out, and here’s why:
It extends on a concept I debuted last month with the “bet you can’t play this” beat: straight 8ths on the hats, with an implied 16th-note phrase shift.
The point is not, I promise you, to teach you to get fired from gigs. (Though that will be the subject of an upcoming lesson.)
The point is that once you have the skillset in that lesson, things like the exercises in this week’s lesson will be child’s play.
Ok, so why should you care?
If Eric’s beat isn’t enough for you, I humbly submit:
Dana Hawkins
Justin Tyson
Mark
Need I go on?
Get your straight-8th hat stuff going.
Get your life.
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Sextuplet Licks - Subscribers Only
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Most weeks, I bring you either licks I lift from other drummers, or concepts I’m messing with.
Every once-in-a-while, though, I’ll catch myself playing something repetitively.
If it sucks, I try to “unlearn” it, or choose other ideas.
If it doesn’t - if I’m like “whoa, did I come up with that?”, I share it with you guys.
This one was a bit of a challenge.
I knew what I was playing, but I decided to go “before” and “after” the licks.
In the “before”, I try to show you what I might have been messing with to come up with the lick.
In the “after”, I take it, and apply it to a different rhythmic context.
Hence, two “sextuplet” licks that work both as (1) proper sextuplets, and (2) subdivided triplets, which subdivide the measure differently, but occur at equivalent rate to that of sextuplets.
So it turned my head around a bit. What I’m trying to say is…I’m sacrificing for you guys;)
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9-Lick Lesson - Subscriber-Only
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In creating lessons like this week's lesson…
...I've lately been "digging deep" into my own playing.
Yea, it's fun to do Spanky, or Chris Dave, or Marcus...
...but I try to keep a balance.
For one, for every "tribute" video I do, I'll get comments like "why don't you stop featuring others and teach us something original?
For two, I've been going "introspective" for the last few months anyway.
I "came up for air" to check out Andy Prado's playing, and record half of a lesson that I hope will someday see the light-of-day...
...and to check in briefly with Ofri, and see if my left foot had improved relative to last time (it hadn't by much, which cued the self-immolation many of you witnessed on Instgram)...
Besides that, though, it's mostly been getting-out-by-going-through.
So, the reality of this week's lesson:
It's a 9-beat pattern I realized I was playing.
I thought it was cool enough to canonize in lesson form.
It has many applications, in my opinion.
But I took to the internets, to see what the kids were searching for.
After all, if the lesson doesn't get see, what's the point.
It turns out the kids, in large measure, are searching for "easy drum fill that sounds hard."
Press Pause: what does that say about our culture? Could you think of five words that more succinctly sum up the American ethos, in the Kanye era?
Be-that-as-it-may, today's like is easy...
...and it does sound hard.
So if you want to use it to fool people into thinking you've put far more years in on the trap kit than you actually have, at least until you play a beat...
...I suppose it would work.
Either way, it sounds good in both sixteenths and sextuplets, and the body choreography opened up my playing quite a bit.
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