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lesson 3 : SIXTEENTHS
Fooling around
with sixteenths
Contents of lesson 3:
1) simple sixteenth-note pattern
2) sixteenth-pattern with a "3 +"-bassdrum variation
3) sixteenth-pattern with a "+ 3"-bassdrum variation
4) alternating the "eigth-note pattern" ad the
sixteenth-note pattern"
5) alternating the "sixteenths" with a short "fill"
6) alternating "sixteenths" and "eighths"
with a bassdrum on every quarter of a note
Once you've wrestled your way through Lesson 1 and Lesson 2, it's
time to meet a new challenge.
We agreed that you, the drummer, aren't restricted to play only
one rhythm pattern ; there are many subdivisions, f.e. "eighth-note
patterns" and "sixteenths", which is our main
focus in this lesson.
You'll notice, of course, the similarities with the bassdrum
patterns you've already learned in the previous lessons, but also
with the "fill", exposed in Lesson 1, which was your
first "sixteenth-note pattern".
That means also that you can combine the practices like we did in
Lesson 2.
O.K., well start here with the first pattern. From Lesson 1
you'll probably still remember how we counted the sixteenth-note
pattern:
"One-e-and-a-Two-e-and-a-three-e-and-a-Four-e-and-a"
r l r l r l r l r l r l r l r l
1)
__ __ __ ___ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
|__|__ __| |___|__|__| |__|__|__| |__|__|__|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X | X X X X X X X | X X X
|-----------------|-----------------------|-------------|
| | | |
SD |:---------------0-----------------------0-------------:|
| |
|-------------------------------------------------------|
BD 0 0
| |
| |
You noticed the "r"
and "l" above the notes, indicating "right-hand"
and "left-hand" (so you use the righthand for the SD
this time!), and also that the bar is a little bit bigger (which
is only for convenient reading).
Of course, the bass-drum variations you already know from the
previous lesson(s) can be applied here, too. You make the same
combinations as before by taking for example the first half of
pattern #1 of this page, mixing it with one or two of the
following variations.
If you like you can play this second pattern as a whole (in stead
of the first part of pattern#1) and combine it with pattern #3,
or whatever you like.
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
2) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
|__|__|__| |__|__|__| |__|__|__| |__|__|__|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X | X X X X X X X | X X X
|---------------|-----------------------|----------|
| | | |
SD |:-------------0-----------------------0----------:|
| |
|--------------------------------------------------|
BD 0 0 0
| | |
| |_____|
3) 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
|__|__|__| |__|__|__| |__|__|__| |__|__|__|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X | X X X X X X X | X X X
|---------------|-----------------------|----------|
| | | |
SD |:-------------0-----------------------0----------:|
| |
|--------------------------------------------------|
BD 0 0 0
| | |
| \| |
Being an eighth-note, the
bassdrum on the "+"-count of "2" gets a
"flag"!
Its "worth": counts "+" and the second "&"
of count 2.
For example alternating "eighth-notes" and "sixteenths"
looks like this:
4) 1 + 2 + 3 e + a 4 e + a
_______ _______ __ __ __ __ __ __
| | | | |__|__|__| |__|__|__|
| | | | | | | | | | | |
X X X X X X X X | X X X
HH |---------------------------------------|----------|
| | |
SD |:-------------0-----------------------0----------:|
| | |
|-------------|------------------------------------|
BD 0 0 0
| | |
| |_____|
Just try to think of other
combinations and write them down in the same way!
Next is a combination of the break you've learned in lesson 1 and
the "sixteenths" on the hihat:
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
5) __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
|__|__|__| |__|__|__| |__|__|__| |__|__|__|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X | X X X | | | | | | | |
Tom 1 |---------------|----------0--0--0--0---|--|--|--|---|
Tom 2 |---------------|----------------------0--0--0--0----|
SD |:-------------0------------------------------------:|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
BD 0 0
| |
| |
Finally I've got one (or in fact
two or more, if you combine them with others) more pattern for
you.
It's a pattern with a bassdrum on every quarter of the measure.
Some of you might recognize the first part of the measure from
some measures in Billy Jean by Michael Jackson.
6) 1 + 2 + 3 e + a 4 e + a
_______ _______ __ __ __ __ __ __
| | | | |__|__|__| |__|__|__|
| | | | | | | | | | | |
HH X X X X X X X X | X X X
|-----------------------------------------|------------|
| | |
SD |:---------------0-----------------------0------------:|
| | |
|---------------|--------------------------------------|
BD 0 0 0 0
| | | |
| | | |
Have fun again with the
pattterns and I'll be seeing you at lesson 4, which will be about:....
TRIPLETS.
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