Playing Double Strumming Patterns on Steel Drums

Playing Double Strumming Patterns on Steel Drums
Hi. I'm Alan Lightner with Expert Village. We're talking about the different roles that the members of the steel drum family play in a traditional Calypso or Steel Band setting. I'm playing the steel pans here that are the double second range and I'm demonstrating several strums. Wanted to show you the third strum pattern, which is related to the first two. This particular pattern, we're going to have two groups of two. The first, the first half of the pattern is just like the previous patterns. A one, two, a one, two, three, four, one. One, two, three, four, one. A one, two, three, four, one. The second grouping of two is going to be a slightly different though. It's going to be the last two notes in our first grouping of three. Ba, da, dat, is what we had in our first grouping of three. We're only going to take those last two notes of that. We're going to get rid of this one and we're going to have these last two notes. So we would just have a one, two, three, four, ba, da. We can leave off this one., ba, da. So, I'm going to demonstrate those two groups together. The first one, which sounds like the first patterns, a one, two, three, four, one, ba, ba. And then adding to that, the second grouping of two which is closer together. I'll put both of them together here. A one, two, three, four, a one, ba, ba, ba, da. So that second grouping of two happens a little faster. A one, two, three, four, one, ba, ba, ba, da. One, two, three, four, one, ba, ba, ba, da. Two, three, four, one, ba, ba, ba, da. So I'm going to play that rhythm now through the chords that we've created to harmonize our little melody. A one, two, a one, two, three, four, a one, ba, ba, ba, da. Two, ah, ah, again, ah, ah, ah, ah. And then the melody. And that would be the next strum pattern for the double seconds.