When you notate your flams, is the first stick the accent stroke or the tap stroke? Would help if you did “lR” and “rL” instead of “rl” and “lr.” Or, just “R” and “L” since the tap stroke is implied in a flam.
Whenever we notate rL lR or rl lr the first one is always the flam since that is the note that will come first. We sometimes notate it differently, but we will try to be more consistent and find a way that works best for everyone.
I love this! But as I am a learning drummer, can you explain how to play the last measure? I understand the concept of ghost sticking, but applying it is foreign to me. Will upload a video if I can figure it out!
Try this out. First just try playing full strokes, but with getting as close to hitting the head as you can, but don’t actually hit it. After you do that a few times try alternating between a measure of full sixteenth notes (or eighth), then the next measure do the same technique (coming as close to the head as you can without hitting it) with one hand, go back to the skeleton, then do another ghost measure with the other hand. If someone could see you, but not hear you, they would think you’re playing full sixteenth notes non stop, though if someone can hear you and not see you, they would think you’re either playing eighth notes if you ghost the left hand, or eighth notes off-set by a sixteenth note(E A E A E A...) if you’re playing ghosts on your right hand. If this doesn’t help I can definitely explain a different way!
Also, we have a video called ghost grid out. The goal of that is to not stop sticking straight sixteenths, but to play the rhythm written. Your sticks should be looking like they’re playing steady sixteenths the whole time.
Can you please put time stamps in the description for each tempo change so we can skip to the one we want
When you notate your flams, is the first stick the accent stroke or the tap stroke? Would help if you did “lR” and “rL” instead of “rl” and “lr.” Or, just “R” and “L” since the tap stroke is implied in a flam.
Whenever we notate rL lR or rl lr the first one is always the flam since that is the note that will come first. We sometimes notate it differently, but we will try to be more consistent and find a way that works best for everyone.
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I love this! But as I am a learning drummer, can you explain how to play the last measure? I understand the concept of ghost sticking, but applying it is foreign to me. Will upload a video if I can figure it out!
Try this out. First just try playing full strokes, but with getting as close to hitting the head as you can, but don’t actually hit it. After you do that a few times try alternating between a measure of full sixteenth notes (or eighth), then the next measure do the same technique (coming as close to the head as you can without hitting it) with one hand, go back to the skeleton, then do another ghost measure with the other hand. If someone could see you, but not hear you, they would think you’re playing full sixteenth notes non stop, though if someone can hear you and not see you, they would think you’re either playing eighth notes if you ghost the left hand, or eighth notes off-set by a sixteenth note(E A E A E A...) if you’re playing ghosts on your right hand. If this doesn’t help I can definitely explain a different way!
Also, we have a video called ghost grid out. The goal of that is to not stop sticking straight sixteenths, but to play the rhythm written. Your sticks should be looking like they’re playing steady sixteenths the whole time.
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