Mama's Jambalaya Drum Exercise

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JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So we're going to start off with, like I said, an exercise that's slightly more advance than eight on a hand. It's the same basic principle. You're practicing those straight--you're practicing the eight notes and with the one-handed sticking, all right? So you're going to be playing some eight notes with the right hand and then with the left hand and kinda going back-and-forth in kinda big chunks. This exercise is called the 8-7-6 or Mama's Jambalaya. What's going to happen is I'm going to play the first--the first pair of notes I'm going to play is 8 on my right hand and then 8 on my left hand. The next set of notes I'm going to play is 7 on my right hand and 7 on my left hand. You might see where this is going. This is--then we're going to do 6 on the right hand, 6 on the left, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1. Now that's halfway through the exercise; the second half builds back up. But we'll start by just doing that first set and you may be thinking that, "Why would you want to do this? This is--you're never going to be playing music that's changing time signatures to where--this is the format you'd been playing in." This is mainly for--this is to work on your transitions to where you get an even sound, going from your right hand to your left hand, 'cause oftentimes if you're right-handed your left hand will be a little weaker so you can hear it. It'll sound like you're kind of tripping when you go from right hand to left hand. Same goes for if you're left-handed with your weaker right hand. So this is to work on your evenness and just also kind of your mental pliability just kind of being able to kinda think on the go as you're playing. So this is just kind of--yeah, heightening your awareness and hopefully kinda honing in your focus and your ability to--yeah, to focus.

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