Playing a Full Drum Beat

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Summary: How to play a full drum beat; get professional tips and instruction from an expert drummer on playing percussion instruments in this free music lesson video.

Views: 522 | Tags: bass, theory, high, drums, drum, snare, kit, beats, instruments, musical, cymbals, drumming, hat

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Playing a Full Drum Beat

JOEL SIEGEL: Alright. So, now we're ready to bring our base drum, our snare and our hi-hat all into one happy family in time, and this is going to make a beat. And this is very exciting, you should call a friend or something 'cause you're about to start playing drums for real. Here's what it sounds like. Let's try playing that together. I'll give you a count, one, two, ready, play. Are you excited? You're playing drums. I want to take a minute to say the way that we've been breaking in analyzing this it's helpful for some people, for some people, it's not. This is the way that I learned. I'm pretty much a self-taught drummer. So, this is just I kind of adopted all these. This is my approach. This is the way I had to break things down in order for myself to kinda internalize and get all the mechanisms down with my hands. All of this, it all becomes muscle memory and it will become a lot easier as you do it more. But just keep in mind that your own learning method and approach and just kind of the way your mind works is unique to you, so you want to make sure you're thinking about that when you're trying to learn on your own. If you're trying to lift a beat off of a record or anything like that, this, for me, has been the best way to analyze beats thinking about when my hands are hitting together or when they're not. So, just keep that in mind and then we'll talk a little more about that later, too.