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Hey everyone, I'm Jared, and I'm here with Larnell Lewis.
And Larnell's out from Toronto, Canada, out near Vancouver, Canada,
to film some lessons for our Drumeo Edge members.
But we figured since he's here,
we might as well film some shorter lessons as well for everyone.
And so today's lesson is titled, Seven Gospel Beats That You Must Know.
And obviously this isn't every single gospel beat, but
this is just seven really important ones.
>> Yeah. >> And
before we get into that, how long have you been playing drums?
>> My goodness. [LAUGH]
I started drumming when I was
two years old.
>> In church?
>> No, not in church.
Started drumming in church at four.
>> Okay.
Great, and you are?
>> 29.
>> 29, so, 25 years.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay, so he's a pretty qualified guy to teach this lesson.
>> [LAUGH] >> So this is gonna be an awesome lesson,
you're gonna learn kind of all the, or not all but a lot of the staple beats that you
need to know if you wanna play gospel music in church.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Cool?
>> Yeah, cool.
>> So what are we going to start with and what are we going to talk about?
>> We are going to start with something I call Southern Gospel,
and it's closely related to country music.
That kind of sound, that kind of pattern.
And also, if you're looking for a sound or an artist or
a group to check out that can give you that sound.
You can look to groups like Mighty Clouds of Joy, it's an older group.
Or you could check out the Gaithers, that's another group that would definitely
give you that kind of a country gospel sound or southern gospel sound.
>> Cool.
And so, let's hear this.
We have all these beats with Smart Beat Technology.
That's something we love to do at Drumeo.
And so, you'll have the sheet music on screen and everything.
>> Yeah. >> And so, let's do this.
It's going to be be at 105 beats per minute,
and this is the tempo that this grooves kinda sits best at.
>> Yeah, very comfortable, nice flow and depending on the situation you're in
they might be faster or slower, but we'll call this the middle of the road.
>> Okay, let's hear it.
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Very cool, and so that's like a shuffle in triplets.
Are you counting or anything when you're playing that?
Or, are you just >> I'm more, if I'm counting,
I'm definitely thinking one and two and three and four and
one and two, da da da da.
I'm just usually singing songs in my mind as I play.
>> Okay, cool.
Okay,so the next one, we have is the waltz.
>> The waltz.
So you might be familiar with the waltz when it
comes to ballroom dancing, that kind of a thing.
But the waltz does appear in some music in church.
So this will be the waltz.
>> Okay, in church.
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And so, the waltz is based in 3/4.
Which is basically you are just lopping off one quarter note,
counting to three instead of counting to four.
>> There you go, >> I think it's a really
important feel to have.
We were talking about this before, because I grew up playing in church, and
I bombed that so many times, because I'd be like, one, two, three, no.
I would start hitting the snare on the one the next bar.
And so, it's very important to learn.
>> Yeah, definitely.
>> The next one we got is the funk shuffle.
>> Yeah, funk shuffle.
Six deep no funk shuffle.
So, this one is One of my favorites sits in a really nice room,
starts off with an open high hat to get things going and it's really cool,
cuz it keeps it open to begin with.
>> Cool, let's hear it.
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Okay. And
before we move on from there, you gotta tell us, like a lot of drummers, me.
>> Okay.
>> [LAUGH] would go like this.
And you keep everything here and you just kind of like
>> Mm-hm.
Flip my wrist up to get there.
>> Maybe you can just elaborate?
>> I blame drummers like Teddy Campbell.
No, [LAUGH] I don't blame anybody.
It's something I picked up.
Being used to hitting the high,
high with my left hand while playing the right cymbal,
figured that I would actually keep my left hand there and just get used to doing it.
You can create a bunch of different textures and
also get a lot of quicker notes in, without have to remove,
to take your hand away and bring it out here.
And then, rely on trying to hit the snare with the right hand.
So, it's just something that I got used to doing.
>> Yeah Cool.
I also wanna mention that, that pattern is written as 16th notes.
Now, you are playing it with shuffle or swing, you call this a funk shuffle?
>> Yeah, like swung 16th.
>> Okay, so you're counting it like, one and the two and the three and the fourth?
>> Correct.
>> Okay, so that's very important to know when you're looking at it.
We could have notated it as 16th note triplets.
But it gets way more confusing.
Or we could annotate it as two bars of eighth note trumpets, but
let's not even go there.
This is simpler, just think
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And kinda get that into your head.
>> Awesome.
>> All right, so next we have the shout.
So you scream when you play this?
>> No, I do not scream.
Others might scream, but.
[LAUGH] My goodness.
This shout Shout pattern, shout music.
Something you'll find in American gospel music.
Some churches, it's very popular and it goes a little something like this.
>> Cool.
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Great, now this is a two-bar pattern.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Right? And
the main switch up there is on the ride cymbal, near the end of the second bar.
>> And the bass drum at the end as well.
>> Okay, and you obviously vary from that depending on the music.
>> Mm-hm, mm-hm.
>> Like, I've seen you do at that tempo,
you would start doing more intercut stuff on the right.
>> Yeah, and lengthen the phrase even more, so
it might sound like a four bar pattern that turns around on the fourth bar or
I'll do the two bar but to make it feel like a fourth bar, four bar patterns,
I'll just add something else Towards the second time around, so.
>> Do you mind just, quickly, demonstrating that?
>> Yeah!
>> Okay.
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You can just play here all day.
>> [LAUGH] >> I love these things.
So good, okay.
>> Cool.
Moving on, I wish we have all day and just, so you guys know,
our Drumeo lesson that we've been doing with Larnell, they're an hour and
we get to ask questions and stuff.
So I do that to them, make them play the whole time.
[LAUGH] It's awesome, but the next thing we've got is Caribbean?
Or no, we've got the ballad.
>> The ballad happening, yeah.
So the ballad, very simple, straightforward.
I'll play it for you.
Some of you will know it, some of you may not.
But you use this in what will be considered the worship part of
the service.
People are in meditation, people are praying, it needs to be a little quieter,
a little softer in volume.
So we use cross stick.
I try as much as I can to use the back of the stick, nice full sound.
And I'll be doing the accents, the quarter notes,
with the edge of the stick on the high hat.
And the other two 16th notes with the tip of the stick on the high hat.
>> Cool. >> Here we go.
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Great, and then the next fill you have is, I think it's really cool.
I think, it's Caribbean American.
>> Yeah. It's a split just to give a little bit of
a background, it's not quite a calypso beat, it's not quite a dance hall rhythm.
Something that I've heard from a lot of recordings, from gospel artists
in the States, and it's just a mix of this, a little mix of that.
It's funkier, but we'll just call it Caribbean-American.
All right?
>> Cool.
>> Here we go.
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>> Great, and again you are just, I know people are like,
where are those extra notes coming from, but it's just cuz he's kind of like
turning his >> [LAUGH]
>> Wrist up to get
that other >> Yeah.
>> Stroke in there.
And so that's very, very cool.
And as far as artists, you mentioned some artists in the States.
Where would we hear that style of music?
Like what artists?
>> One song in particular, you can check out is by an artist named
Martha Munizzi and it's called Jesus is the Best Thing.
And the drummer on that record, or on that song is Calvin Rogers,
yeah amazing drummer, so he's definitely someone you can check out.
And something with kind of a close feel is another
song by Fred Hammon called, This is The Day.
So it's still not exactly the same pattern, but definitely sits within that
field, so you can give that a whirl as well when you're listening to that song.
>> Awesome.
Now the last style he's going to talk about is the one I'm most familiar with.
I think it's partially, cuz of my skin tone.
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] I grew up playing it more
straight, that style of music, which is contemporary.
>> Contemporary.
>> And so, maybe just quickly talk about this one, and then we can end the lesson.
>> Yeah, demonstrate it.
So this one, contemporary, you'll find in Contemporary Christian Music, or CCM.
And I guess one group you could listen to to kind of listen to a bit of
this kind of stuff is Hillsongs.
>> Yeah.
>> Cool.
So let's do this at 105 beats per minute.
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Awesome.
Well, thank you so much.
>> No problem. >> For sharing this stuff.
Did you guys wanna hear more about all the crazy stuff Larnell Lewis is doing,
you can just go to his website, larnelllewismusic.com.
And if you wanna get the sheet music for this lesson, there is a link right below.
We're actually gonna put together an area, in our members area,
where they can download all this stuff.
>> Cool. >> So just click that link below and
you can get all the resources for that.
But definitely check this guy's drumming, he's on tons of people's albums.
And you guys are absolutely gonna be blown away.
So thank you so much, any final words?
>> Study, study, study.
Listen, listen, listen and have fun.
That's what this is about.
This is why we do this.
All right.
>> Awesome, thank you.
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