Chops 2

Online lessons with Juan van Emmerloot

Juan van Emmerloot 01-01-2005 22:01

My first teacher usually tried to pressure me and in a way it didn't help much. For a long time I tried to avoid playing double strokes as much as possible. And when you're playing in a band you don't nescesarly have to use them. But what a drag it always has been when I tried to use them!

Many years later while I was teaching, students would ask me how I learned to play the double strokes, and then I discovered something really interesting: the double stroke action is easier to control when you shift the whole portion one note backwards. For instance:

instead of playing:

RRLL RRLL

you should play:

RLLR RLLR

Try it and you'll find out many fills will sound more spectaculair.

Like previous excercise (Chops 1) I am just showing you the following order of every note and hand, played on hihat and snare only.
Try to get basic idea and use it on your own drumkit, with your own choise of instrument combinations. You'll find out that it will only sound better, if you put in a lot of your own combinations.

Next month you'll see and hear what I've done with it.
In the mean time have a lot of fun trying this stuff, and don't forget to "tune in" next session, ok?

CAN U GROOVE IT?....... YES YOU CAN!!

source:
regular double stroke excercises (D. Agostini, Stick Control, Buddy Rich, etc.)