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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 slow method of 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
"Next I'm going to show you the slow method of what the hands are doing but forget about the bass drum for now. The best thing to say is the first thing we're going to do is we're accenting three alternating, three of the same hand, that's basically the first thing. Then, we switch, we play a non-accent here and we switch to two accents on the far hand. Then, to get us back to accenting with the left hand, in my case, we're going to play two accents, so what we've got is (playing drums). To end it we'll play another left hand accent (playing drums)."
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