Half-Time Shuffle Hi-Hat Pattern

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The next thing we can do, once we're comfortable playing the bass drum and the snare drum in different variations of this half-time shuffle feel with ghost notes is we can look at opening the hi-hat on some notes, so let's do that. So, as you can see, we can open the hi-hat on the uh's: one and uh, two and uh, three and uh, or we can try to open it on the beat. The question if we open on the beats, is when do you close it? I like to say, I typically close it on the next beat that the hi-hat is playing so, one and uh, two and uh, three and uh, four and uh one. You can really do it either way. The idea here isn't that you'd always play an open hi-hat if you played a beat like this in a song. The idea is being able to having that four way coordination to get that hi-hat open whenever in the phrase you want to.

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