I've been working with groups of 5s and 7s, and groups of 10s and 14s. Mainly I've been playing these groups as 16ths and 32nds. One day, while walking to the Musicians Institute (http://mi.edu) where I teach, I came up with this idea. It started out as a technical idea using groups of 10s and 14s, played as paradiddles and paradiddle-diddles. But little did I know what sound was waiting for me.
Try this exercise with your feet playing quarter notes.
What I learned how to do, or was instructed to do, by my teachers, was to play with a metronome, with both feet with the metronome.
The metronome, in this case, could be playing quarter notes.
After you have a "feel" for how this pattern lays in your hands, play the HH on 2 and 4 and simply orchestrate the accents on cymbals with BD as you keep the HH on 2 and 4.
My next application was to play the hands as alternating singles and every last diddle was played with the BD.
Come on Mark. You can Do It! |
