{"id":8780,"date":"2018-03-22T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2022-08-22T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:32:30","slug":"gavin-harrison-bass-drum-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gavin-harrison-bass-drum-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Harrison&#8217;s Bass Drum Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTHMRBCGIrs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speed is usually the top quality people are looking for with their bass drum, but articulation and coordination are just as important! Thankfully Gavin Harrison&#8217;s got you covered.<\/p>\n<p>The basic concept of this exercise is picking a common bass drum pattern and playing rudiments, leading with your weak hand, over top. This exercise focuses on connecting your limbs together in different combinations so they&#8217;re perfectly synchronized. No flams! The end goal is to have complete freedom with your kick drum while your hands play anything they want.<\/p>\n<h4>More videos with Gavin:<\/h4>\n<p>\u25ba<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gavin-harrison-drum-lessons\/\">How To Create Amazing Drum Parts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gavin-harrison-the-sound-of-muzak\/\">&#8220;The Sound Of Muzak&#8221; Drum Beat<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gavin-harrisons-paradiddle-challenge\/\">Paradiddle Challenge<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gavin-harrison-drum-beat\/\">Gavin&#8217;s 3+4+5 Groove<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speed is usually the top quality people are looking for with their bass drum, but articulation and coordination are just as important! Thankfully Gavin Harrison&#8217;s got you covered. The basic concept of this exercise is picking a common bass drum pattern and playing rudiments, leading with your weak hand, over top. This exercise focuses on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4028,4018],"tags":[13,9,408,152],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foot-technique","category-technique","tag-drum-lessons-2","tag-drumeo","tag-drums","tag-free-drum-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19203,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions\/19203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}