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Part of the video series: Reading Drum Melodic Rhythms & Rests

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Summary: Learn how to write mixed drum notation and sheet music in this free music video on reading basic drum melodies, rhythms, and rests.

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How to Write Mixed Drum Beats

So now we have our last two measures and we mix up some eight note triplets and quarter note triplets. And we start with this quarter note triplets again here we have this. You hear how ending on it we have eighth note, eighth note, quarter, and it really kind of slows down the time but there's no time here at all. And that really helps to pull everything together. And I don't know why. There's just a couple of random lines in here. We'll get those out of there. My cat got at the paper last night. I don't know what happened there. So we have one and a three and a one and a two and a three and a. And it really gives a nice diminuendo to the song. Because you have this slow, largo rhythm, slow largo rhythm and then real quick quick and then it goes slow again and it just kind of makes it sound like the tune's just kind of dissipating here. So we have this...And you hear how it really hangs on that last note there, that six, right? Three, five, six, four, three, two, four, three, two, one, three, five, three, five, six, three, five, six. And that's the last two measures of our rhythm tune.

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