Fran Merante Demos Rodney Holmes Groove

This is a Demo with transcription information on the Rodney Holmes cowbell groove from the 2005 modern drummer festival.

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• Merante
• drum
• groove
• transcription
• dave
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• vinnie
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[ebflip26]

dude you need to put on a different shirt bro, it looks like you sweated the shit out of that one.

[funky2714]

LOL

[rniznick]

Awesome job, however, not to play devil's advocate, doesn't Rodney also throw in the heel toe on the hi-hats? The cowbell plus the heel toe really makes this groove majic.

Again, great posting, I like your way equally as well.

'rah,

Randy

[funky2714]

This is only one small portion of the groove. There is also somewhat of a turnaround to the groove that I have in the transcription but it is not played in the example. There are a bunch of things that Rodney adds throughout his playing example. I picked the simplest part of the groove to post so it is learnable to a broader spectrum of players. I have a bunch of my own add ons to this groove but posting them all would take a lot of time. Thanks for the post!!

[rwl7532]

First two bars are paradiddles, third bar is single stroke, fourth bar is double stroke.

The second paradiddle is 'inside out'.

First: RLRR

Second LLRL

Third RLRL

Fourth RRLL.

Of course the hard part is getting up to speed and varying the placement of the strokes.

Nicely done. Practice the above sticking and download the score. Set the metronome to 60 and play each note as a quarter note. Mileage will vary.

[hortondrummer]

hey man great vid ... thanks for posting..

do you rekon you could email me the transcription... as i cant find it on your site..

lukehorton14@msn.com

thanks once again dude

[queenday15]

its the most clear video that i saw for playing that groove, thank you very much for the good will: )

[aronizer]

Yesterday I sat with it behind the kit and when I finally got it down it felt great. This is such a nice groove to play. Lots of fun

[n3cr0x]

immense x

[Flimz]

Nice sounding toms, maby a tuning video sometime eh fran? ;)

[antibulletdodger101]

you played that cleaner than rodney did

[winnerbaby44]

even slow that grooves like hell!

[asterothoatthaat]

You rule man, but the transcription is kinda hard to read. It is hard to tell whether some things are toms or snares.