Keeping Time on Drums & Quad High Hat Lifts

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Summary: How to keep time on the drums and how to play quad high hat lifts; get professional tips and instruction from an expert drummer on playing percussion instruments in this free music lesson video.

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Keeping Time on Drums & Quad High Hat Lifts

JOEL SIEGEL: You can see I brought in this cymbal over here just to illustrate a point. If you were kind of looking around while I was just playing then, you maybe noticed that my hi-hat was going--it was going the whole time on the downbeats, alright? This might seem like it kind of out of nowhere, but this is actually a skill that you're kind of unwittingly developed. If you were getting that disco beat with the four on the floor and those upbeat lifts on the hi-hat, alright, this is actually what you're doing, you're just keeping quarter notes right here on your left foot. So, you probably have a ride with your kit and you can figure out if you just move your right hand from eighths. To move it from eighths on the hi-hat to eighths on the right cymbal, all of a sudden, you're playing with all four limbs, you're getting places. Now, it's a different sound than this. Alright, by developing that left foot early on, you're getting an advantage and you're more likely to keep better time.