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Summary: Play a drum beat variation that has the bass drum, or kick drum, on beat 3, the snare drum on beats 2 and 4, and 8th notes on the high hat. Learn how in this free beginners drum lesson video.
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JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So, we're going to move our kick drum again and we're going to put it on beat trois, for our French speaking listeners and viewers. This is--you're going to do the same thing; you're going to have some different things lining up. So, I want you to think about that, conceptualize that and here we go at 80 bpm. This is what it sounds like. Okay. So, as you hopefully figured out, you have beats three lining up with just the kick and the right hand on the hi-hat, one and two and three and four and. All right? And then you have the same things lining up with your left hand and your right hand, one and two and three and four and. All right? So let's try playing that together.