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Summary: A bass drum is a great tool to use in blues music to give it bottom end. Learn some tips from a drumming expert on how to play bass drum beats in this free video clip.
"Alright now we're going to be adding one more component; the bass drum, the kick drum. It's going to be on all the quarter notes so one, two, three, four. And we're not going to be...we're not going to be hammering it. We're just going to be, you know, just nice and easy. Going to kind of be feathering it to medium feather, so two, three, kind of like that. So one, two, three, four, so for now, I'm going to add in my bride cymbal. One, two, one, two, three, four."
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