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Fran Merante - Ruff'n It

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Uploaded by on Mar 29, 2008

A lesson in applying the ruff / drag to the drum kit. The end result is a drum lick ala Dave Weckl or Vinnie Colaiuta.

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  • Thanks!....nice soft snare sound...what are you using to control ring?....what drum/head?

  • I am using a small piece of "Moon Gel" at about the 10 o'clock position on the snare.

  • hey, good explanation and cool application of the rough as you call it. I love orchestrations of patterns between hands (snare and toms) and the right foot. You have a cool drumsound as well. But the smallest and the biggest of your toms are not as loud as the others I find. Keep on the good work

  • Completely correct about the volume of the toms. When I am doing a lesson vid, I concern myself with conveying all the info I like to get across and I probably don't pay as much attention to the mix as I should . Next time I will make it a point to give the mix its due attention!!

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  • it would sound even cooler to phrase the 16th's in groups of 3 for a 4 vs 3 polyrhythm ala plainfield

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  • Love that you said "thing-a-ma-jigger"...classic!­!!

  • this is so awesome. Thanks!

  • Well explained. very nice man!

    Keep up the great work. love your vids

  • shame this hasn't gotten as many views as your first lesson, its another very insightful video. it makes great use of rudiments, which pushes students to practice them.

    they definitely do pay off, i pay alot of attention to flams, drags, grace notes etc. but i've never seen an example of applying them around the kit as good as this.

    thank you for the video, what lessons are you planning next? will you be doing anything on brushes?

  • Very cool - gives me something to work - thanks!

  • Thank you very much

  • Thanks , that was very Informative and very cool.Peace out

  • Thanx a lot for this video fran....hey whats that poster behind? is it a dave weckl poster??

  • hey could you do a lesson about how to apply metric modulation musicaly?

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