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Summary: How to get started doing the Sfuzzi drum exercise; get professional tips and instruction from an expert drummer on playing percussion instruments in this free music lesson video.
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JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So this is a-this dates back to my high school drum line days. This is an exercise. I'm watering it down a little bit just to simplify things. This is called sfuzzi, and what you're going to do is everything is going to be alternating between your right and left hand. I'm going to play leading with my right. Like I said, it's always good to practice both leading with your right and leading with your left. You'll thank yourself down the line. So here's the rhythm for sfuzzi. Go ahead and just listen to it. I'm going to play it here at 80 bpm. Just take a listen. All right. This is kind of--you hear this kind of like martial, this is kinda march feel to it. This is just the kind of--this is due to the style that we're playing in, really just kinda the austere straight ahead 8's and 16's. But I'll--we'll do it together in a minute here.