In this video I'm going to show you the basics and some beginner exercises to
get you going on some double pedal playing. In this video I'm also going to
provide a few exercises that you will be able to download down in the description
below as a PDF file. Let's get to it shall we!
This first exercise is really basic. If you already know a basic rock pattern
this will come naturally to you. So, what we're doing is we're playing quarter
notes on the right hand. So we're playing on beats 1 2 3 & 4 and the left hand is
playing on beats two and four on the snare. Our feet are playing eighth notes.
Now if you're new to double pedals this might be a little washy at first but,
you're playing 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 and between your right and left feet. Now that's
saying you're gonna play it that way if you're a right footed player if you lead
with your right foot. Meaning you play with your right foot
first and then follow with your left foot. But if your left footed just
reverse these patterns and this still applies
First we'll play it at 80 bpm and then we'll speed it up to 120 now. Let's play
that exact same thing at 120 bpm
If you're still having trouble playing that at 80 BPM, might I suggest
that you reposition your feet on the foot boards about halfway up. You don't
want to go all the way too far close to the kick drum or too far back. You want
to get the most amount of momentum by putting your foot in the center of the
foot board. Now stay tuned for later videos because I'll go over this in
detail. The second exercise is done with sixteenth notes. You're still alternating
them right and left foot so basically you're playing constant eighth notes on
your right foot and you're just adding the left foot in between the hits to
make yourself play the subdivision of sixteenth notes. Like before we're gonna
play the right hand on the hi-hats on the quarter note pulse and we're gonna
play the left hand on the snare on beats two and four let's get to this exercise
we'll play it again once at 80 BPM and a second time at 120
BPM
Now a little side note. If you're finding that sixteenth notes are too cluttered
and you can't quite get them concise and accurate might I suggest going back to
the first exercise in playing eighth notes at a comfortable speed for a
longer duration of time, so that you feel more comfortable progressing to a faster
note rate. Those two examples I provided for you are the fundamentals of double
bass drumming. Now I can go into some more complicated stuff but I'll save
that for some later videos you want to stay tuned for that. If there's anything
in particular that you would like to know and would like me to do a video on,
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