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- Hey guys, I'm Brandon Toews.
I'm an instructor here at drumeo
and today I'm here to teach you a lesson
on how to practice coordination on the drum set.
So basically the goal with this lesson is to help
each of your limbs work together effectively
so that ultimately you can have
more freedom behind the drum set.
This is basically a concept that really helped me
with my own drumming, so hopefully
it's gonna do the same for yours.
Check out the sheet music right below this video.
Then let's get started with the lesson.
So first let's talk about the notation
that we're gonna use for these examples.
You'll see each one is labeled with a bunch of lower case
and upper case Ls and Rs.
The uppercase ones are gonna be our hands,
our left hand and our right hand.
The lowercase Ls and Rs are gonna be
our left foot and our right foot.
Now you'll also see each example is only notated
on the snare drum, the bass drum and the high hat,
but I'll also explain later on how we're gonna be moving
those around the drum set.
So before we move on to example one,
I just wanna talk about the three different kinds
of motions that we're gonna be using.
The first one is parallel motion,
basically both of our hands are gonna move
around the drums symmetrically.
The second kind we're gonna use is oblique motion,
which means only one of our hands is moving around
while the other one is staying stationary.
And the third kind is contrary motion,
and that's basically where both of our hands are moving
around the drums in no particular order.
So for the first one here we've got
a sixth note pattern in eighth note triplets.
We've got a lower case L, which is gonna be our left foot.
Then we've got a lower case R
which is gonna be our right foot.
Then we've got three notes on the hands which is gonna be
right left left, and then we're gonna end
with a lowercase R, which is gonna be our bass drum.
Really slowly.
(drums and cymbals)
So now let's hear what number one sound like around the kit
using parallel, oblique, and contrary motion
at 80 and 100 beats per minute.
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So the second example is a four note pattern
that we're gonna be playing as 16th notes.
So you'll see we've got a right hand, a right foot,
a left foot, and then we're gonna end with a left hand.
So really slowly.
(drums and cymbals)
Let's check this one out with all three motion types
at 80 and 100 beats per minute.
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So the last example we've got here is a six note pattern
that we're gonna be playing as sixteenth note triplets.
So we're gonna play this one four full times
throughout the entire bar.
You'll see we've got three notes on the hands
followed by three notes on the feet,
and our pattern is gonna be right left left,
right left right on our feet.
Really slowly.
(drums and cymbals)
Let's check number three out with all three motion types
at 65 and 80 beats per minute.
(drums and cymbals)
So these are just a few exercises that can help you develop
your own coordination behind your own kit.
If you're looking for more lessons on coordination
and developing independence, head over to drumeo edge
where we've got tons more lessons on this kind of stuff.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys later.
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