How to Play Drums: Beat 17

Video Transcript

"JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So here we go. We're going to kinda stay on this flavor with--leaving out the downbeat of three and leaving in those two eighth notes on the first beat, all right? So we just did one-&, &, which was the upbeat of two. So now we're going to just shift that over a full beat and put that on the upbeat of three instead, okay? So this is what it'll sound like. All right? So it's the downbeat of one, the upbeat of one and the upbeat of three in the kick drum, all right? No downbeat of three, we're still going with that, all right? I'll combine it with the hi-hat in this next clip. Listen to it, watch what my feet are doing, think about how it's interplaying with the snare drum, the bass drum. Here we go."