Description
Until now you have been working with 1, 2, 3 and 4 strokes, now you will use 5 strokes to reach the independence of your hands (it is important that you sing the subdivisions like Horacio does). Your right hand plays the Clave in the Wood Block, the left hand will play the Sixteenth notes. In this video you have two exercises: the first one with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sixteenth note of the bar and the second with the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Sixteenth note of the bar
Commentary:
Groups of five, first and second sixteen. 1, 2, 3, 4… For the second note. 1, 2, 3, 4… And then you have to keep going with groups of six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven until you fill the hole Clave again with the sixteen notes.
Left Hand (L) and Bass Drum (B) play BLBL-LBLB – 5098 – E
In these exercises, while our Right Hand plays the “Cáscara” and our left foot plays the “Clave” in the foot cowbell we will apply the “Stick Control” combinations method playing with the Left Hand in the Snare (I) and the
Mambo (B) with Clave on the left foot cowbell – 5104 – E
Here you have Horacio’s 2nd variation with the Mambo pattern (very used in Latin Jazz): right Hand plays Cáscara in cymbals, Left Hand orchestrates in Toms and Snare in addition to Hihat and Bass Drum. Commentary: This also can be used on the Mam
Songo (B) with Clave on the left foot cowbell – 5106 – E
Here you have another version of the “Songo” pattern, with a variation where Horacio shows us how to apply the Cowbell with the Right hand and the Clave with the Left foot in the Foot Cowbell while the Left hand plays Snare and Toms. Comment
