Descending Part of the Mama's Jambalaya Drum Exercise

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JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So just like always, we've got our trusty metronome here. I'm at 80 beats per minute for this--for Mama's Jambalaya, and I'll show you how it's going to go. This is going to be the first half of the exercise or we just go--or start at 8 and work our way down, all right? And I'm going to do--my metronome has this unique feature where it accents the downbeat, the first part--the first beat of the measure, 1, 2, 3, 4. If you also--if your metronome does this, too, usually you can turn it off, so now all I have is the beat. You can hear that all the tones are the same. All right? This will help me to not get thrown off. Here it goes. All right? Are you with me? So this is getting fairly advance but, like I said, it's just kind of a good way to have your mind kinda going at the same time as you're playing, which you won't--you never want to overthink music but you do want to have that ability to know what you're playing and of course control what you're playing.

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