In this free double kick lesson you will be taking an offbeat eighth note right hand movement and applying straight sixteenths on the bass drum underneath. The movements are relatively simple but you will need to really focus on lining up the hands and feet, exercises have been given at the bottom of the page to help with all the more mechanical elements of the movements. To familiarize you with how the two limbs work together, we'll start by giving a quick exercise. In this exercise you will play sixteenth notes on feet and hi hats on every '+' count using the right hand.
Spend some time getting comfortable with the exercise and how the hands and feet line up. As usual, start with a low tempo but build up speed gradually.
Listed below are some variations on this exercise where the hands are orchestrated in various ways.
Double Kick Lesson 1
Example 2
Double Kick Lesson 3
Example 4
Example 5
TASK
- Using the 2 minute rule, get all grooves up to a tempo of at least 160bpm.
- Create further variations on these grooves. Think about where else you could place the grouping.
- Apply these grooves to a phrased piece.
- Look through further double kick lessons.