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.
Demonstration: B’Bom, King of Crimson (Thrak) – 2038 – E
Thrak (King Crimson). Bill’s comments and explanations playing all around the drum kit Commentary: Just to complete this section, now I’ll try to improvise with those embellishments or play through starting from the master rhythm to make it
Sixteen notes accents in 7/8 – 2039 – E
Triplicity (Earthworks). Bill’s comments and explanations playing all around the drum kit Commentary: I’d just like to explain about a tune on the new Earthworks CD entitled Triplicity. Often as a drummer-composer, I start with a rhythm I li
Measure application, “The key” “A” y “B” – 2040 – E
How to play the Triplicity pattern A) The key to develop this pattern. B) The said pattern played all around the drum kit Commentary: Having found that seven bell part which is going to become the key to the tune, I just want to play that with different
