Introduction to High Hat Drum Exercises

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JOEL SEIGEL: Alright. So, in our beat earlier, we were only using three of the limbs. You may have noticed that and you may have been thanking whatever god that you're worshipping 'cause a lot of people are very fearful of the left foot. You don't need to be. It's not that hard if--just like at the beginning, you just start working it. And you're really going to thank yourself down the road; two, three years down the line when you started practicing, playing with your left foot from the beginning. The reason it can be neglected and is neglected by so many people is in pop music, it's not really a main element other than when you're playing with the stick. Now, I'll show you--we talked about this a little before in one of the other series that you can--when you strike the hi-hat, you're either making the close sound or the open sound. That's where the two cymbals are rounding together. And the reason this happens is because here--hopefully, I didn't go over it but hopefully, somebody told you how to set up a hi-hat. This is the clutch right here. This is what this mechanism is called and this fastens to the rod here. And this is what your foot is controlling. This is what that pedal at the bottom of the hi-hat stand is controlling. So, when I go down, the two cymbals come together; when I go up, the two cymbals come apart, all because this top cymbal is riding along this rod that's attached, alright? So, the point here is that in pop music, you'll get a lot of--the left hand--I'm sorry, the left foot is playing--is just--it's basically only controlling whether the hi-hat's open or close. In a lot of times, that's all that people will use it for. But there are so many more applications and so many more opportunities to just get different textures and different colors in your music and that after all is why we're here.

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