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How to Play Accent Beats on Tom-Tom Drums
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: Adding High Hat Cymbal
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: Basic Pattern Without Accents
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: Hands Slow
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: Hands Medium
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: Slow With Bass Drum
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: Both Tom-Toms
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: Both Tom-Toms Faster
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: 3/2 Clave
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: 3/2 Clave With Bass Drum Pattern
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: 3/2 Clave With Hands Slow
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: 3/2 Clave With Hands Medium
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: 3/2 Clave Slow With Bass Drum
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: 3/2 Clave With Both Tom-Toms
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: 3/2 Clave With Both Tom-Toms Faster
Tom-Tom Drum Accent Beats: Variations With High Hat Cymbal
Summary: Play the basic drum pattern that will serve as base for accent beats on tom-tom drums with tips from a professional drummer in this free video on music instruction and improvisation.
David Pakman is a longtime drummer trained in rock, funk, jazz, blues and music theory, and is also a casual piano/keyboard player. He has played with two alternative/modern rock bands...read more
"Ok the first step in figuring out this beat is really to know that it's based on sixteenth notes and the hands, I'm going to lead with my left hand, or basically just doing this. One, and a two and a three and four and a....In this particular case the bass drum is just playing quarter notes, so to get a feel for this we don't have to add any accents. We can bring those out later. I'm just going to be playing sixteenth notes on my tom, on my floor tom, and playing quarter notes with the bass drum. So to show you how this relates to what we are doing I'll start with that again which is what you should start with, and I'll slowly start to add in and bring out the accents of the pattern."
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