Bossa Nova Drum Beat: Rim Click

Video Transcript

"Alright now we've got the rim click going now which was the first, it's the first beat of the bossa nova. The rim click on two. So what it's going to do, it's going to feel like this so we're just going to do it alone for a second. It's going to be just thinking about the asenondo on the kick and the syncopation on the high hat and then you're going to come down with the rim click on two. So think, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta. Here we go so one and two and three and four. One and two and three and four. One and two and three and four. Alright, now what I'm doing here with my hand is I'm spreading it across the drum. I'm doing rim clicks. Alright. So you see my thumb is down along with my other hands. My palm is down. And you want to hit, hit the stick around the sweet spot which would, which would be a little bit more than a third up from the stick or down from the butt end. You're going to get a really tight wood sound the farther you go. In the middle of the stick the worse it's going to sound."