How to be Creative on a Drum Set

Video Transcript

"Alright, basically we've gone over a lot of stuff. There's just no limit to what you can do with the snare. So what I'm going to do for this last clip is just a little beat that hopefully will inspire you to just kind of get creative with it. Just because you can do anything with the snare drum and it's so important and vital to almost every beat you come up with. It's good to just be as diverse as you can with it, and get as creative as possible. So this is something that I just kind of made up. So what I'm going to do is use my left hand of course for the rim shot, and I'm going to mute the snare with the palm of my left hand while keeping the snares on with the clutch. So the snares are on, I'm going to mute the snare, use a rim shot, and then I'm going to roll with my right hand as we spoke about earlier. The snare roll, and just create kind of a funk groove. And this is something you know, you can expand into anything you want. So I'll just demonstrate that now. And so basically, just fool around with stuff like that and come up with your own ideas. And just remember that snare is crucially important to all the beats you make so I would pay special attention to it. And get as creative as possible and have fun with it."