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Singles Exercise
Here's a great exercise for warming up. Your goal is to remain relaxed
during the entire exercise.
Your metronome is playing 16th notes. Each beat of the
metronome is one 16th note.
You play one note per metronome beat just to
warm up and remember to relax, just turn your wrists, feel the weight
of the drumstick lying in your hands.
I. OK. After this, you then play two notes per metronome beat (single
strokes) which are 32nd notes. You do this for one full measure
of 16th notes (16 beats of the metronome). For each beat of the
metronome you are playing two notes. You are playing alternating
single strokes.
II. After one full measure of 32nd notes (16 beats of the metronome),
you then play four notes per metronome beat. These are 64th notes.
You do this for one full measure of 64th notes (16 beats of the
metronome).
For each beat of the metronome you are playing four notes.
You then go back to I. then II. and repeat many times.
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