
Exercises of Rhythm Displacements. In this case while our left foot plays the Clave in the foot cowbell, our Bass Drum will play the “Tumbao” of Guaguancó. Our hands play quarter notes in the snare with the following combination: RL-RRLL-RRRLLL-RRRRLLLL-RRRRRLLLLL … until groups of 8.
Commentary:
Next exercise is about moving groups of one note, two notes, three, four, five, six, seven and eight notes, around the Clave using different speed variations like for example, quarter notes, triplets, eighth notes, etc. 1, 2, 3, 4…