Accented Notes
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Learn How To Play Drum With Accented Notes!
In today's lesson I'm going to show you what accented notes are, and why they are important to play sometimes. If you are ever looking at a piece of sheet music, and you see what looks like a V turned sideways over top of a note, it means that note is accented. All that means is that you play the note a little louder than the rest of the notes. Watch the video to see me play a set of sixteenth notes on the snare drum, accenting the quarter note of each beat. You can also see me play the same pattern with no accents. You'll be able to hear how much more interesting music can be made just by the addition of accents. The easiest way to play an accent is just to hit the drum from a higher stick position for accented notes.
There are ten examples given for you to play along to. Every one of them uses the same simple 16th note pattern on the snare. Each one also uses a different accent pattern, which will not only give you practice reading accents on sheet music, but will show you just how much different a simple pattern can be made by varying the pattern of the accents.
