Hi, I am Wes Crawford. And now we’re going to study the two-beat.
The two-beat is a drum set beat. It’s probably one of the simplest but most versatile beats you’ll ever find. The beauty of the drum set is compared to many other instruments. You can more quickly learn enough on the drum set to go and actually perform with other people than any other instrument and that’s what’s fun about it. The two-beat is simply using two of our coordination kernels; the first one with a right hand on the closed hi-hat, right foot on the bass drum, left hand on the snare drum and the left foot can just keep the hi-hat closed. The first kernel of coordination is the right hand and the right foot together [Demonstration] like that, and I did it over and over for you.
The second kernel that we’re going to put with this is the right hand on hi-hat and the left hand on the snare. So, when you’re comfortable with those, put them together. Do the first thing which is the right side of your body. The second thing, which is your hands or the top side of your body, and keep alternating them. Right-top, right-top, right-top. Now, let’s see if we can speed it up a little bit. That’s a real professional drum beat. If you hear it slow, you might have a Luther Vandross Ballet. It’ll work for a lot of slow things. If you hear it fast, you might hear it as part of some circus music, or you might hear it in a Broadway show where they’re vamping while the characters are running around the stage.
It could be a country two-beat. It could be a punk music thing. Open up the cymbals a little bit so they splash. So it’s very versatile. You’ll hear it all over the place. It’s very basic and generic so it fits with a lot of things. There are no rhythms that get in the way of what some part of a song might be doing. So learn this and you probably already know a third of the songs out there.
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