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How to Play Hip Hop Beats for Drums
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Coordinating Arms & Legs
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Constructing a Beat
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: High Hat Cymbal Pulse
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Bass Rhythm
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Combining high hat Pulse With Bass Rhythm
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Bass Drum & Snare Drum Rhythms
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Accenting Beats With Bass Drum & Snare Drum
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Combining high hat, Bass Drum & Snare Drum
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Feeling the Pulse Within
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: high hat Cybal Accents
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Rhythm With high hat Cues
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Simple Fill
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Fill Break Down
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Advanced Accents & Fills
Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Improvisation
Summary: Simple fills can be used to create a nice melody within a hip hop drum groove. Find out how to play a simple fill with hip hop beats on the drums in this free video on hip hop drumming from a professional drummer.
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"So now that we have this groove down and we can change it up, make it a little bit more advanced, we're going to add in some fills, and we're going to do that by really taking a look at the fills the way it's developed, is you have this groove going, and then the groove stops, and you have a counter melody, and then you hit right back on the groove again. And it's really important to come right back on that one. Boom, boom, da ba, doo bi da. So we're going to go through and play some simple grooves and talk about it, and then we're going to analyze them in the next segment. So by stopping the groove and doing a nice melody but still keeping that pulse, I get this cool mix up fill in there, and the best way to do it is to really practice and really hear it in your head. I'm going to go through and analyze it so you get a better idea how to construct these fills in the next segment."
eHow Article: Hip Hop Beats for Drums: Simple Fill
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wwboynton said
on 9/30/2009 For the love of Christ, please just stop. This is almost as bad as "How to play triplets on the saxophone."
soiledwig said
on 9/23/2009 You don't know what you're doing!
phantomregiment said
on 1/13/2009 OMGG UR EVNN BTR THAN TRAVIS BARKERR!!!!!
oh wait, i forgot im a real musician. learn to play a drum kit. or better yet, try to learn some rudimental snare drum. it might do you some good.
phantomregiment said
on 1/13/2009 OMGG UR AMAZINGG UR EVEN BETTER THAN TRAVIS BARKERR I WANT HEAR UR AMAZINGG DRUMM SOLOO OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!
imbetterthanyou said
on 12/11/2008 You are a disgrace to the musical community. Stop making misinformed videos. You are teaching everything the opposite way of how to make good music.