ISSUE #37 \__\__\___THE____/__/__/ Jan 5, 2000 _____________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 2,500+ 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. _____________________________________________      * SPECIAL HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENT * Assembling a new drumset out of the box.             FREE E-BOOK       * SPECIAL HOLIDAY GIFT *             VIA E-MAIL: Ask for this Free E-book, in a note to:          'OUT OF THE BOX AND UNDER THE TREE' IT'S FREE: Complete instructions, explaining how to assemble that brand new drumset that came via UPS. _______________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS: What is in this issue? 1. Feature Article:      "Swishing" the Hat. 2. Advertisements 3. Drum Instructors Wanted! 4. Hidden Website News (For paid members) 5. Humor ______________________________________ |__________FEATURE ARTICLE___________|           "Swishing" the Hat OR, PLAYING ON THE OPEN "AND" . . .      This technique may be applied to almost any beat but it's probably easiest to learn with 8th 4/4.      When we play 8th 4/4, we are playing 8 notes on top of the hat (per bar.)  The count is, 1 an 2 an 3 an 4 an      The trick is to have the hat open as we strike it on any or all of the 'ANs' (or "ANDs".)      This will produce a 'swishing' effect. Doing this in imaginative ways will add a lot of color to your playing style.  Many of your current beat patterns will take on added spirit as you discover the millions of ways these 'swishing' effects may be appended to them.      It is common for drummers to use this technique on virtually ANY beat.  Use it to spice-up any rhythm dramatically!     First, you must train the limbs to employ this technique instinctively . . . and in a very simple way.   You'll, need to master the following and add it too your trick bag of playing habits . . . BEGINNERS MAY TRY THIS TOO . . .     Yes . . . beginners with a hi-hat can work on this too, (if the Basic & Standard rock beats are starting to come natural.)  Though this lesson is basic . . . the general idea or concept will bleed-over into the more complex beat patterns you will learn later on.     If you don't have a hi-hat . . . save this lesson for someday when you do . . . IMPORTANT:     If you aren't jamming routinely with 8th 4/4 recordings, back up and get started doing that first: http://www.studydrums.com/drummers/dapp01.html          Everyone else should try this . . . ....................................... CODE: X = Hit Closed HH O = Hit Open HH     We'll use 'X' for closed hat and 'O' for open hat. This is 8th 4/4. .......................................       Hit the top of the hat on every note in this exercise . . .      1.  Hit the top cymbal as you close it with your foot . . . Be sure it is completely closed as you hit it.  You want to make a 'tic' or 'dit' sound as you close and hit the top cymbal simultaneously.      *  Then, hit the top cymbal again as you 'O' open the cymbs by raising the (left) foot.  You'll hear a full (open) cymbal sound.  Think of it as a 'da' sound.      When done in steady repetition . . . you'll hear a 'dit, da, dit, da', sound as you play Closed, Open, Closed, Open.      Now . . . play a STANDARD 8th 4/4 OR 2/4 rock beat while doing the above . . .  SPECIAL NOTE:  You'll be playing quarter-notes on the bass.  In other words, play a bass note along with the snare too.  You may need to practice this separately (on a closed hat) if you have just begun learning. 1    an   2    an   (COUNT) X    O    X    O    HH = CLOSED , OPEN, CLOSED, OPEN)           S         SNARE B         B         BASS      Notice the bass!   . . . It is connecting simultaneous as the hat is down . . .  In other words . . . both feet are in the SAME up/down motion as you play the STANDARD 8th rock beat.      You are playing quarter-notes on the Bass here. This isn't the 'BASIC' 8th rock beat.  The bass is different . . .  Notice that second 'B', under the snare . . .      Too hard to do?  Don't let it get you down!  It's sorta like learning to whistle!  Remember when you first learned to whistle?  It seemed impossible until after you finally made it happen the first time.  From then on . . . it was a piece of cake.  This trick will be very similar to that experience.            If you have trouble playing 8th 4/4 with quarter-notes on the bass (Standard Rock), you may need to practice and master that first (on a closed hat), before trying to do the fancy open/closed hi-hat trick.       This trick is harder to explain than it is to do (much like teaching someone to whistle.) Once you get it to happen a couple of times. . . It will be easy easy after that, and like I said earlier, this trick will add tons of new creativity to the other beats and improvisational ideas you may already be playing as you continually jam everyday.      You'll hear this technique often with Fatback syncs, 16th Disco, 16th 4/4 (one-hand), Blues, Shuffle and even Quarter 4/4.  It's possible to do this on almost anything.      It sorta grows on you like a fungus after awhile. Get it going this easy way first.  Add it to your trick bag here . . . it will bleed-over to the other beats naturally and easily, once you get it happening this 'easiest' way. NOTE:      When we use this trick with 16th Disco, we are actually playing a closed hat on '1 E' and an open hat on 'AN A' of '1 e an a'.      If you go to the Disco lesson . . . then scroll all the way to the bottom . . . and play the last sound file on that lesson . . . You'll hear a close simulation of what we are talking here (as it would sound with 16th Disco.) http://home.att.net/~drums01/ccrtdsco.html     It's hard for my 'midi maker' drum machine to imitate the effect exactly . . . but this is the best we have.     REMEMBER . . .  We may employ this trick on any 'random' "AND" or we may choose to play it constantly on EVERY "AND" in the bar, as was VERY POPULAR with many Disco tunes of the mid-1970s.                            Bill Powelson                   The Homestudy Institute of Drums _____________________________________________________ ORDER MY COMPLETE, 70+ LESSON, ONLINE DRUMMING COURSE, FOR ONLY $49 (In US funds) To order now, with your credit card, from anywhere in the World . . . go here: https://secure.catalog.com/drummers/ccard.html ................................................. MESSAGE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS . . . The credit card companies will perform any necessary currency conversions automatically. BUT . . . 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