Hey everyone, I actually got a decent amount of e-mails off of my "How to Practice" Blog that I wrote a little while back so I figured that I would take a little time a share with you a drum exercise that I've been working on recently. I've found that it's quite helpful in building independence and just filling in your playing.
I actually stumbled upon this while learning Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain". When I had a hard time doing the "tradition shuffle" I decided to go into the studio and just spend a day working at it. So I started with this..
Basically I just played that for about 30 minutes to an album (even if the song was in 4/4 just make it fit and use the song as a time piece).
(playing this as 16th note triplets)
1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
R | R | L | R | R | L | R | R | L | R | R | L |
Kay, so after about 30 minutes I was feeling that this pattern had become 2nd nature so I started adding in kick.
1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
R | R | L | R | R | L | R | R | L | R | R | L | ||||
K | K | K | K |
Var2
1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
R | R | L | R | R | L | R | R | L | R | R | L | ||||
K | K | K | K |
and lastly I changed the hand pattern slightly to involve a flam tap
1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | ||||||||
L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | ||||||||
K | K | K | K |
Finally on the kit after learning different patterns well. (Keeping time on the hi-hat in quarter notes or eighth notes)
1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
H | H | H | H | H | H | H | H | ||||||||
s | s | s | S | s | |||||||||||
K | K | K |
The drumbeat should ALMOST feel like the "Purdie Shuffle" if you are unfamiliar
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie is a great great man.. extremely entertaining to watch.
Hope this helps some of you
Talk soon and keep practicing!
Sincerely
H
2 comments:
H,
That video was awesome!
Rich
Yeah, Purdie has tons of charisma and really is an amazing drummer. The guy has played on like 4,000 studio albums. So you've definitely heard him on something hehe.
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