Description
Exercises for left and right hand Up-Tap-Down-Full How to play with this exercises With eight notes RLL RLL
Commentary:
The purpose in understanding the upstroke and the downstroke, up and down, is that this is two different ways for you to make an accent. If you have four accents in a row, doing up and down, the stick has to make a long distance. One, two, three, four… But with down and up, the stick only travels half the way and you economize movements. So, you might play this, but it’s a long way for the stick to go. With downstrokes and upstrokes, the stick travels only half the distance. If you manage to get this right in the basis of your drumming, all will be heaven from then.
Polyrhythms with the key for “Triplicity”, “A, B” – 2042 – E
Polyrhythms featured in the song “Triplicity.” Demo of Bill working with the previous exercises and parts “A and B” of the song. Commentary: But let’s go back to the original figure which you remember was four notes and thr
Sixteen notes in 7/4 “B” – 2034 – E
Flams and accents Bill’s explanations Exercises for left and right hand. With accents and flams. A) Seventh notes in sixteen notes into a 7/4, with snare and toms Commentary: Perhaps, the next obvious thing to do after that would be play flams in
Sixteen notes in 7/4 “C” – 2035 – E
Displacements with sixth notes. Bill’s explanations Exercises for right and left hand. Only with accents. A) Sixth notes with accents into 7/4 time with snare and toms. Commentary: Next thing you could do, for example, is put the same rhythm into
