8th Note Bucks Marching Drum Exercise on a Marching Snare Drum

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m John Antonelli on behalf of Expert Village. This video lesson is going to begin discussing tap accent control. Now in the previous lesson, we discussed heights. In this lesson, we’ll utilize those heights. Tap accent control is the difference between an accent in a tap. This exercise I’m going to construct for you right now is going to be a 12 inch accent and a three inch tap. To review, 12 inch perpendicular to the ground, three inch coming from the set position, ready to play position, and moving to a flat wrist. This exercise, I like to call eighth note bucks, because it’s simply constructed solely on eighth notes. The way I’m going to play this is a bar of eighth notes constant, but with an accent on the beats and a tap on the inner eighth notes, like so. Make sense? Then what I’m going to do is fill in the inner notes with the left hand to make sure my 16th note check is 100% solid. Now, what this does is allow me to hear my constant eighth notes within that 16 note check. So, I can check myself and make sure that my eighth note is 100% solid when I’m just playing with my right hand alone. "