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Part of the video series: Basic Drum Beats for Beginners

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Summary: Learn how to play basic bass drum beats with expert tips and advice in this free music lesson video.

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By Pat Louis
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Patrick L. Sapia is a Singer, Actor, Comic, Impressionist, Writer, and Drummer based in Miami, Florida. He has been in Show Business for 52 years, starting with The Columbia Boy’s...read more

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The drum is perhaps the oldest known musical instrument and its basic design has not changed in thousands of years. Far from today’s uses as a percussive foundation for pop music or for fueling marching band excitement, drumming has a more profound history as a method of communication, and as an implement of religious symbolism.

In this free video series our expert Patrick Sapia will show you how to play several basic drum beats. He will teach you how to play the cymbals, hi hats, ride cymbals, snare, and toms. Patrick will teach you how to play a swing beat, a shuffle beat, a disco beat, a Cha Cha beat, and a Rhumba beat. He will even show yo how to play several types of jazz beats.

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"PAT LOUIS: On behalf Expert Village, I'm Pat Louis in Miami, Florida. And today, I'm going to show you some basic drum rhythms. First thing I'm going to show you is the bass drum which is the basis of any kind of beat or any kind rhythm that you're going to play. Its starts out with a one, two, three, four, just a straight rhythm, okay? With this, you can actually do a number of different kinds of rhythms, disco is one where they use this all the way through. Swing is another one that all way through. Now, you can use this on some rock, but in rock, you're going to use more like a rhythm that will go something like one, two, three, four-and, one, two three, four, one, two, three, four, or something of this nature, one-and, two-and, three-and, four, one-and, two-and, three-and, four, one-and, two-and, three-and, four, one-and, two-and, three-and, four. Those would be your basic rock rhythms, okay? As we put in the high hat and the other cymbals, you'll see how that all comes together with the bass drum actually providing a nice solid base line to your song."

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