ISSUE #31 \__\__\___THE____/__/__/ July 5, 1999 _____________TEMPO DISPATCH _____________ Newsletter For Drummers and Drumming Enthusiasts Copyright Bill Powelson 1999 all rights reserved. ____________'IT'S ALL ABOUT DRUMS'__________ Tips * Tricks * Hints * Ads * Freebies * Lessons * _________NOW 1,850 SUBSCRIBERS!___________ "THIS NEWSLETTER IS TOTALLY FREE From Bill Powelson's HOMESTUDY INSTITUTE OF DRUMS On The Web * Where Beginners Learn FREE http//www.studydrums.com/drummers/bphome01.html E-MAIL drums01@att.net _____________________________________________ Removal Instructions For instant REMOVAL, simply hit reply and type REMOVE on the subject line. _____________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS What is in this issue? 1. Feature Article DOUBLE BASS & SONG ENDING TIPS 2. Advertisements 3. Drum Instructors Wanted! 4. Special Message for Paid Mac Students 5. Humor ______________________________________ |__________FEATURE ARTICLE___________| I guess I get more requests for double-bass drum and song ending tips than any other (besides drum solo tips.) This month I'll try to hit those two topics with my best shot. MASTERING DOUBLE-BASS TECHNIQUES It's a common sense thing . . . We need to develop BOTH feet . . . the same way we develop coordination with BOTH hands. Coordination development is directly proportional to effort expended. We learn coordination by doing. TRAINING THE WEAK FOOT (Tips) TIP #1. Work out with rudiments & rolls using both feet. Practice single strokes, double strokes, triplets and paradiddles (with the feet) all day long when you are away from the drums. You needn't be at the drum set to work on these very necessary but boring exercises. Do these things while you sit at your desk at school or work, (until people complain, throw things and begin screaming threats!) TIP #2. When you are at the kit . . . (jamming with music) . . . make the left (weak) foot carry the load! Pretend your 'good foot' is unusable! Make the weak foot play all those same patterns you have already mastered with the right (or good) foot. TIP #3. Use your left foot as if it were on a hi-hat but play the left bass instead. This should come easy . . . but can sound very effective! If you are accustomed to kicking the hi-hat along with the backbeats . . . play the same licks on your left bass drum. It will astound you! It will sound 'new' and 'hot' . . . though it is easy to do! TIP #4. SPECIFIC TWO-FOOTED BEATS & ROLLS There are numerous beats you can master slowly . . . beats and rolls that require the orchestration of all limbs. I could write dozens of useful exercises here. But, in an e-note it isn't practical because different e-mail applications use different fonts. The (font) space displacements become a real problem. In other words, the exercises I write may not look as they were intended (in your application) . . . I use Eudora 4.0. Anyway . . . I'll write a couple of simple exercises then leave you to come up with others of your own . . . SPECIAL NOTE If the following exercises look weird and fail to make sense, you may need to convert the font of this entire document to 'Courier New .9'. EXERCISE #1 R L <----SNARE R L <---BASS (Above) Play a (R)ight then a (L)eft with the hands, then follow through with a (R)ight then a (L)eft using both feet. Turn it into a smokin' single stroke roll using all four limbs! EXERCISE #2 F <----SNARE (F= Flam=RL simultaneous) R L <---BASS (Above) Play two simultaneous notes with the hands. Also similar to a (F)lam on the rudiment charts. Turn this into a smokin' triplet roll using all the limbs! EXERCISE #3 Play basic rock . . . but play 8th notes using both feet! In other words, you will have a bass note hitting with each note on the cymbal . . . first a (R)ight bass, then a (L)eft bass. X X X X <---Hi-hat S <---Snare R L R L <--Bass In case the fonts appear displaced . . . the snare is with the third cymbal and you will play a bass with EACH cymbal (first a right then a left bass.) The bass notes could be reconfigured 256 different ways ia bar of 8th 4/4. Play around with the possibilities (until the nice people from the asylum come to call.) SONG ENDINGS . . . This question comes in a lot too . . . and it is more difficult to answer with simple logic. The problem is, every song tends to have its own ending! One of the main things to remember as a drummer . . . We need to memorize specific Intros & endings to ALL the songs we play . . . It becomes a 'listening' habit . . . Learn to really listen to what is happening in the music on each specific song that you play. Sometimes the drummer may drop out completely. Other times we may need that BIG roll-out! In the situation of the roll-out . . . those endings tend to be somewhat spontaneous when they occur 'live' onstage or in the studio. The players all make eye contact . . . they watch each other as the roll-out continues until someone (usually the bass player) gives a signal to kill-it. Every band tends to come up with their own special routines. It's a . . . 'feel it' . . . kinda thing . . . where the drummer is usually playing some form of triplets or single strokes at peak speed, all around the kit until the whole thing comes crashing down (on que) under the direction of someone in the group. Song endings DO often follow patterns that help us anticipate what is coming (though we may never have heard the song.) A lot of this just comes with experience . . . After awhile . . . we get where an upcoming ending . . . just comes natural. We feel most of them, because we have played similar endings in other songs before. A very large part of this is in the 'ears' too . . . We must learn to listen closely and try to anticipate the flow of the song, then match our own moves accordingly . . . We want 'what we do' to fit the musical situation. I hope this helps! If you aren't a paid member yet . . . 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