How to Play 16th Notes on a Snare Drum

Video Transcript

"Here I'll demonstrate four sixteenth notes on the snare drum. Sticking is going to go right, left, right, left and we're going to play this on the snare. Now sixteenths are generally played faster because they are dividing the beat into four parts. So they typically sound like this at a normal tempo. Let's do that again. Now when we're talking orchestration, we're talking simply moving our hands to another drum. It's a big word for a simple thing really. To add to this, we're going to end the sixteenth note, fill these four strokes with a crash played simultaneously with the bass drum. "