How to Play Cymbal Beats

Video Transcript

"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. Using the ride cymbal. The right cymbal is usually used for swing-type tunes, and the swing-type tune would use a beat that went something like this. Add that with the bass and bass drum is doing the same thing in terms of one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. On the crash cymbal, crash cymbal is actually on - is ends up on the 1 of the next measure. So if you're doing one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, it always ends up on 1. The crash cymbal always ends up on 1 of the next measure. The other part of this is the high hat, again, is your rock but it's the also the swing. If you want to just use a--an up and down mood, you have to let it up on the downbeat. Two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. So that your two and three is where you released the high hat."