Playing A Bass Drum in A Bossa Nova Beat: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Shaun Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to be learning how to play a Bossa Nova drum beat. Now that we've gotten through playing the sixteenth notes on our high hat with one hand let's talk about what the kick drum is going to be doing. The kick drum is going to be playing on the ahs and then the down beats, which is you know the one, the two, the three, and the four. So, it's playing on ah one, ah two, ah three, ah four. Now if you take a listen in the end when you hear it the kick drum along with the high hat is kind of your, that's your beat. It's always the same it never doesn't play on the ah and the down beat. The down beats being the one, two, three and four. That's kind of your, like in a rock drum beat, you have your high hat playing eighth notes, you have your kick drum on one and three and your snare drum on two and four. That's like the heart and soul of that drum beat. This is sixteenth notes on the high hat with your right hand and the kick drum kind of doing that heart beat feel; you know dada, dada, dada. It's on the and or it's on the ah and it's on the one, the two, the three, and the four. So one E and ah one E and ah two E and ah three E and ah four; alright. That's what the kick drum is going to be doing. Let's go ahead and take a look at our next step."