Quarter Note Drag With Simple Feet

This lessons follows on from our Drag Sticking lesson. It will be much easier to follow if you are familiar with the content from that lesson.

Now you have the hands sorted out let's try adding feet into the exercise. This is a very useful thing to do as it will help develop foot technique at the same time as working on your hands. It will also improve independence and co ordination as well as your natural time keeping. In a practical sense we can add feet to fill patterns to both help keep time and to add an extra layer of sounds to the parts played. As an exercise the main aim here is to get you used to placing those grace notes before a hand and foot stroke.

Through this set of exercises you will be playing the rudiment as quarter notes whilst playing a standard foot ostinato underneath that will be made up of crotchets or quavers. All exercises will involve playing something with a foot at exactly the same time as playing something with a hand. It is hugely important that these notes are played exactly at the same time so I strongly recommend you work through the lessons in this Hand to Foot Syncronization Exercise.


Exercise 1

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 2

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 3

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 4

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 5

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 6

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 7

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 8

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 9

Adding feet under a drag


Exercise 10

Adding feet under a drag


TASKS

  1. Using the 2 minute rule, get all exercises up to a tempo of 120bpm with good hand technique.
  2. Use standard, reversed and alternate sticking patterns with each exercise.
  3. Create your own feet patterns for the exercises.
  4. Play all exercises as a continuous pattern, then repeat.

Lessons

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