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- Drumeo, Drum Corps 101.
All right, this is the real rudiments.
The real rudiments, now, the word rudiment
means the most basic element of whatever
you're talkin' about, all right?
And our rudiments that we know as the 40 rudiments,
some of them are really complex,
they're not rudimentary at all,
they're pretty advanced or complex,
all right, so we're gonna talk about the real rudiments,
and in my opinion, there's four, well, actually,
we'll say five, the fifth one we don't use
too often, but we'll talk about it,
and that's the strokes that we use,
and how we execute these strokes to play
every single rudiment, and once you learn
these strokes, this is like the ABCs of drumming.
I would say the real rudiments, the strokes
are the ABCs, and the rudiments as we know them,
those are like words, all right?
And then you put those words into sentences,
you put the sentences into paragraphs,
you put the paragraphs into chapters,
and you can tell a whole story with this stuff,
but you gotta know how to spell first, all right?
Cool thing is, there's only five letters.
Four really, but we'll talk about it.
All right, the first one, we're gonna get into it
real quick, all right, we're gonna start
rebound strokes, so put your stick up like this,
and a rebound stroke is basically an accent
followed by another accent.
This is efficiency, and we need to be extremely
efficient when we're drumming, because we may
have to play fast, we wanna play with clarity,
so it needs to be efficient.
All right, so this is a rebound stroke.
We're just gonna hit the drum and
come back to this position.
Do it with me, you ready?
One, two, ready, go. (drum hits)
That's it. That's a rebound stroke.
I'm throwing the stick down, and I'm lettin'
it come back all on its own.
I don't wanna have to stop it, like this.
And then pick it up.
I want it to come back on its own.
Okay, so if I did several rebound strokes in a row,
we'll do eight of 'em, called eight on a hand.
One, two, ready, go. (quick drum hits)
All right?
Yeah, not real musical, sounds like somebody's
building a house, but it's a technique exercise
that you can use to begin with.
We'll move on to other rhythms after that.
Same thing with the left hand, you start up,
one, two, ready, go, and you return to this position.
That's your rebound stroke.
All right, now we have control strokes.
That's the same thing, but we're
gonna stop in this position.
(drum hit) Like so, now I'm ready to play
a soft note, tap, ghost note, interbeat,
whatever you wanna call it, it's a softer note,
all right, so one, two, ready, go.
Left hand, one, two, ready, go.
Notice I stop right here.
Here's a good pointer for the control stroke.
The control stroke, you want it to stop
below horizontal, okay, this is horizontal, right?
I want that stick to stop slightly below horizontal,
I want it pointing down slightly.
If it's pointing up, I'm out of position for taps
or ghost note, so here's horizontal,
I want that stick pointin' slightly down,
so when I stop it, boom.
So get in the mirror, watch yourself in the mirror,
same thing with the left hand.
See where it's pointing down?
Here's horizontal, actually, it's horizontal
to the snare drum, here, I want it slightly down.
Now I'm ready for those ghost notes.
This is really the key,
'cause I see a lot of people, they play,
they do that, and then they're out of position
for the taps, now the next tap's gonna be pretty loud,
and the next one a little softer,
so their ghost notes, or interbeats, taps,
are uneven, but it all starts with
the control stroke, all right, then we have taps.
(tapping drum hits)
You could say those are rebound strokes,
but at a soft dynamic level,
or ghost notes, okay, so that's just soft notes
followed by more soft notes.
And then there's the up stroke, all right,
so that's a soft note followed by a louder note.
Or what we call a Moeller stroke,
or what I like to call common sense, all right?
So we're just bringin' the stick up, imagine,
you break the wrist here, like I got a piece
of string pulling up, boom.
So that first note is an up stroke,
same thing with the left hand.
You could do this match grip.
If you do it with match it's the same as the right,
you do it traditional...
Bam, there it is.
That's our four strokes, right?
We said there were five, the fifth one is gonna
be a press, just into the head.
(fast percussion) It's like a buzz roll.
Those are the real rudiments.
Now, this is just an excerpt from a video
on my course in Drumeo called Drum Corps 101,
there's eight videos to watch,
eight videos to watch, all right,
so this is just an excerpt, so go to Drumeo
and check 'em all out.
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