Reading A Bossa Nova Snare Pattern

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 got what the kick drum is going to be done and the high hat is going to be doing which our pulse of the Bossa Nova let's talk about the snare drum. The snare drum, for me, when I was learning how to play a Bossa Nova drum beat was the most difficult thing to get, or to grasp. It's just unnatural feeling, it's just really strange the pattern that the snare drum is playing, but once you get it, it's really cool and it's a really neat feel. We're going to pull out our little map, the little thing that we drew earlier in the lesson. This is why I drew it; this is one of the reasons. If you look here is our high hat up here, this top line, this is our kick drum down here, here is our snare drums, right, right in the middle. If you take a look at the snare drum, we're going to take a look beat by beat. Beat one the snare drum plays on the and, right; one E and ah; so it plays on the and. On beat two it's playing on the E; two E and ah. Then on beat three it's playing on, actually twice within that beat, it's playing on the down beat of three and also the, of three; three E and ah. And then on four it's playing again on the and as it was on beat one. So you have one E and ah two E and ah three E and ah four E and ah. Now, one thing, a little hint or tip that really helped me when I figured this out is if you look on beat one it's playing on the and then the next time it plays you move it up so it's not playing on the and it's playing on the E so the next time it plays it's not playing on the E of three it's playing on the three and the next time it plays it's not playing on four it's playing on the ah of three and then the next time it plays in beat four it's not playing on ah it's playing on the and. So if you notice there's three sixteenth notes in between each snare drum hit, minus the beginning and the end. You have one E and ah two E and ah three E and ah four E and ah. That's just a little hint for like when you're counting it's just another thing to keep in the back of your mind that helps you with the feel. Let's go ahead and take a look at our next step."