So, let’s go over this first rock beat. This is rock beat number one.
[Demonstration]
Let’s go to rock beat number two and this time, we’re playing the same thing but we’re adding the bass drum in whenever the snare drum hits. So our coordination kernels are now the right side of the body together, that is right hand on hi-hat and the right foot on bass drum, hi-hat alone. And then the next one instead of just being the hands, it’s going to add the bass drum in. so you’ll have hi-hat, snare and bass drum. It has to sound exactly together and then you’d follow with a hi-hat. So now you have right, together, right, together, right, together. So let’s listen to that a little bit faster [Demonstration]. How about a little faster?
So there’s a difference in feel between the two rock beats. They’re very similar. But just having the bass drum playing four times out of each beat, each measure gives it a driving feel as compared to two times. And by measure—I mean a lot of times, musicians will count to four. Most of the time, we count to four and I would be counting this one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four. We count in a cycle over and over like that. The first beat would be one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four.
So anyway, the beat with the bass drum on all four gives a driving feel and the one without the bass drum on all four but just whenever I say one and three gives a nice balanced feel. [Demonstration]
So learn both of these beats and decide. Is it a dance tune? It needs to be driving. You might want to choose to play the bass drum on all four counts. And if not, you might just want that balanced feeling between the bass drum and the snare drum.
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