One Handed 16th Note Drum Beats
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Learn How To Play One Handed 16th Note Drum Beats!
Next we are moving into a more difficult section of this rock drumming system book. This section is one handed sixteenth note drum beats. The reason they are more difficult is because you are going to be playing a lot of notes on the hi-hat in a short period of time. There are couple of ways to play it. You can play it with the shoulder of the stick and then the tip, so you get a two for one kind of deal which keeps you from working your wrist so much and tireing yourself out. You can also play on the top of the hi-hat and allow the stick rebound to hit the hi-hat four times for every stroke. Try both and choose whichever works best for you. Be sure to start off slowly and build up your speed.
Example 1 plays sixteenth notes on the hi-hats and uses bass and snare hits on the first note of each beat. The other examples add in just a little more complexity to the beats played over top of the sixteenth note hi-hats, but all of them should be fairly easy to get with a little practice.
Learn how to develop hi-hat-foot independence in the next drum lesson.
