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Summary: An expert musician shows how to combine the beats of the song "I Can't Help Myself" to play this Motown classic on drums, in this free cover songs and drum lesson video.
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Joel Siegel Lenee Alexander has been sewing since she was 9 years old. When her mother left the sewing machine on their kitchen table and wasn't sewing, Lenee was. Lene... read more
JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So we've got all the parts of our beat. We know that our hi-hat and our snare is steady, and then we've got that slight variation in the kick, the downbeat of one and then three-and, four-and. Okay? So we'll put it altogether and we'll go ahead and slow it down. Go down to 110. And here's what the beat sounds like. One, two, three. All right? So there's your beat. It's really straightforward. It's a nice classic sound, and it really fits nicely with that classic Motown fill. Just to wrap up, I'll give you that beat, add tempo again. Here's what it sounds like. All right? There you go. You got a classic Motown beat to add to your palette.