Introduction to Eight on a Hand Drum Exercise

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Summary: Get an introduction on how to do the Eight on a Hand 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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Introduction to Eight on a Hand Drum Exercise

JOEL SEIGEL: Alright. So, we're going to work on developing your chops, your control and your power with an exercise called eight on a hand. This means that you're literally going to be playing eighth notes with each hand going back and forth. I'll show you a little more of what I mean in a minute. We're going to play with a metronome as always. So, we'll do just the right hand. So, what we're going to do with--kinda technically speaking, we're going to play one bar of eighth notes, okay? Solid eighth notes. You might have deduced by now that the reason they call them eighth notes is because there's eight in a bar, there you go. Alright. That was two bars. I cheated a little bit. But the point is you're going to play those eighths all in one hand and then we're going to switch to the next hand on the next measure. Let's just see what two bars--two official bars of the eight on a hand looks like. Alright, that's what you're going for. Let's go ahead and do let's say, four bars. So, right hand, left hand, right hand, left hand. We'll do this together. I'll count you off, One, two, ready, play. Very nice. Alright? So, you can feel that, if you were getting those eighth notes from before, that's the exact same motion, it's the same rhythm as when you're keeping that--those pop eighth notes like I was talking about, very prevalent in pop music. That's what you're working on. We're also just building chops.