Articulation Exercise

This post is influenced by Dan Weiss and Sonny Rollins. Why? Because both articulate on their respective instruments in a lot of interesting ways. This is something I think a lot of drummers ignore. Namely, how are you attacking the drums? There's a lot of different ways to do it, and that creates variety.
So, this is pretty simple. My apologies for the size of the pic. We're just taking a paradiddle, and doing different combinations of buzzes, dead strokes, and regular strokes. I find when both hands are changing their techniques of sound production in a short period of time, it can be quite challenging. I also have some other variations suggested at the bottom of the page. Very simple in conception, but challenging in practice. Speaking of practice, that's what I should go do now. Happy trails folks......

Keep building those neural pathways!

Hey,

Here's a couple of ideas using a 7 beat on again/ off again pattern and mixing it with dotted quarters in 4/4 time.

The first example has me playing a fairly garden variety samba/surdo pattern with the rest of the kit while the right hand plays the on again/ off again 7 thing.

The next one is the same except I'm also playing dotted quarters in the left hand.

Finally, in the last one I'm playing a Rock beat with my hands, dotted quarters with the bass drum, and 7 beat figure on the hi-hat. I lost it a bit near the end. I, as always, remain (as a musician, as well as a Father, Husband, and citizen of the planet) a work in progress!!!

Thanks