{"id":16425,"date":"2019-07-05T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=16425"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:38:37","slug":"springboard-your-drumming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/springboard-your-drumming\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboard Your Drumming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMeFg6E8l5g\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are you tired of playing the same patterns all the time? Looking for something new to spice up your vocabulary?<\/p>\n<p>Here are three ideas that you can use as a springboard for writing new grooves. Each one builds on the previous idea. They&#8217;re all played as 16th notes, with a quarter note hi-hat as the glue that holds it all together:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. RLLK<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a group of 3 with a kick stroke at the end (so it&#8217;s a group of 4). Since Benny Greb is one of Jared&#8217;s favorite drummers, it makes sense to start with a Greb-ism.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/26140653\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-5.04.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOnce you&#8217;re comfortable playing RLLK between the snare and bass drum, orchestrate this pattern around the kit, hitting a different tom on the 1 of each grouping. Add in the hi-hat when you&#8217;re ready. Don&#8217;t forget to keep the ghost notes nice and soft with your left hand to infuse texture and dynamics into your playing.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2. RLRLLK<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Now we have a six note grouping between the hands and foot. Orchestrating this pattern as 16th notes is more of a challenge since it goes over the bar lines if you play more than 16 rotations. But you can get some really unique variations as you move it around the kit.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/26140652\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-5.05.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nPractice this pattern with a metronome set to 16th note subdivisions. Once you&#8217;ve nailed it, try going back and forth between RLLK (the first pattern) and RLRLLK.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. RLRLRLLK<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This 8 note pattern builds on the previous patterns and fits nicely into common time. Add the hi-hat on the quarter notes and you&#8217;re off to the races. When you&#8217;re ready, go back and forth between all three patterns in whatever order you&#8217;d like.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/26140651\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-26-at-5.05.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s fun to come up with patterns that are just a little bit different. Hopefully you can take these ideas and use them as a jumping off point for something else. Now you have a few more concepts you can make your own.<\/p>\n<p>Post a video of yourself playing these patterns on Instagram and tag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jaredfalkdrummer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jaredfalkdrummer<\/a>, and you never know &#8211; you might win some free swag!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a &#8216;jumping off point&#8217; for writing new patterns? Try these three ideas to springboard your drumming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017],"tags":[800],"class_list":["post-16425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beats-and-fills","tag-how-to-practice-drums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425","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=16425"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36870,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16425\/revisions\/36870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}