Playing Quarter Note Beat Combinations with Quad High Hat Lifts

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JOEL SIEGEL: Alright, so we've done a lot of work today with those high hat lifts, and the last thing we did was that disco beat with the four on the floor on the kick. So, basically, I just want to kind of mention and talk about briefly, the different iterations that you can do with the kick drum and these hi-hat lifts. As you're probably beginning to notice, they're basically--I mean infinite possibilities. Just having a single note in the kick drum, there's four possibilities with that, and that's only varying the kicking drum, right? You have three other limbs. They're all staying the same so far. So, this is just kind of an aspect I wanted just kind of bring to your attention and just let you know we're going to move forward a little bit from the quarter notes. But I want you to realize and work on your own and kind of use your imagination. The kick drum can be on beats--you can play with it. Put that on beats one and two. Put the hi-hat lift on the upbeat of beat three. You can put the kick drum on all four beats, and you can just do upbeat of beat four, okay? This is all stuff that's similar to what we've done, but you haven't actually gone through the motions of these exact beats. And if you don't develop these, you'll be surprised. You kind of let your playing develop with some of the holes in them, and you'll come to a song or whatever just further on down the line that you're trying to rehearse and play for and all of a sudden, there's just this one combination that you can't do. There's nothing wrong with working it out then, but just like I've been saying, getting all the stuff and the foundation and working all the stuff through will just very much be to your benefit. So, however much you can handle as far as just the very rigorous and dry practice, you're going to be that much better for it.

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