Rob Brown - Bass Drum Workout using Ted Reed's 'Syncopation'

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Creating a cool bass drum workout/exercise using Ted Reed's awsome book, SYNCOPATION For the Modern Drummer.

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[FieldsOfQuantum]

could you share your snare / head tuning specs?

[penski77]

@FieldsOfQuantum Good 'ol fashioned remo Coated Ambassador on top and Hazy on the bottom. I normally tune my top head according to what I want out of it, man. In this case it was tuned mid-high. The Hazy is always tuned looser than the top for 'body'. And I usually play my snare drums wide open (no muffling) whenever I can. In the studio, sometimes there's no getting around it, but yea. Nothing fancy, man. All my snares are the same combo. Coated Ambassador top/Hazy bottom.

[7spqr7]

I still don't quite understand the 2/3 placement. you're playing the (written) snare line on the bass drum and displacing the meter?

[penski77]

Hey 7spqr7. What's hap'nin :O)

I suppose there's a couple different ways to 'feel' this motion. But in this case, the 2/3 made the most sense. Essentially, what's happening is that you're just playing a straight '4' on top (hats & snare) while the '3' feel is played on the bass drum. Cutting the '4' down to a '2' just shortens the feel on top.

[penski77]

SO...what happens is that the two feel on top actually 'flips' and you get this ONE 2 1 TWO 1 2 ...etc, played over this 3/16 on the bottom. Cut the 4 triplets on the bottom in half to get ONE 2 3 - ONE 2 3.

Make sense? :O)

[notoofast]

Very interesting ..!

Thank you very much.

Greetings from Italy

[damankj]

I currently take drum lessons and for me Rob Brown seems like a much better teacher than the one I have.

[funkydrumma2]

it's 3 on the hi hat and 4 on the snare..3 against 4.

[xXxLilHig23xXx]

Walt!!

[jockerboofer]

How long are you playing drum master ?

[StevieArt]

Interesting.

[atedj]

HELP!....I need tips for making a good quality sound out of my bass drum?

[AeroAstro]

I understand what you're doing, but don't know how to word it!

Could you say that you're playing the bass drum 4/4, and the hands in triplet time against it?



[Elitios]

I used to do some simultaneous rythm back at music school(I'm not a drummer obviously^^) and following two different lines at the same time was so hard.. Now I see you read this + tweak it+ make it sound cool at the same time, no sweat. Man you're a monster!!

[RobbieMcDougall]

@bigxjon91 It looks like a Zildjian K of some sort, it sounds sweet eh?