36-How to Play the Drums: Drum Kit Solo 6

This lesson is part of the series: How to Play the Drums: Drum Kit Solos, Drumming Lessons: Intermediate, Drumming Lessons: Basics through Advanced

This solo, Funkasaurs Rox, is a good extension exercise for those who have mastered the “Snare drum 16ths between high hats” lesson (http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/1650). Most of these rhythms involve the left hand playing these in between notes while the right hand plays a steady quaver pulse. The right hand plays this sometimes on the high hat, sometimes on the ride cymbal, and even sometimes on the floor tom. The cymbals are written a bit differently than we have seen before in this solo, using the China and the Crash cymbals, both for a variation in sound and as a way to get around using the same cymbal in close succession. Finally, this solo utilizes the bottom three toms more than tom 1.

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I've had a tremendously broad background in drumming. I've played in rock bands, orchestras, marching bands - everything from high-brow contemporary music to Latin American stuff.

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