Paradise Beach Percussion Band
Drum Stick Exercise 3
Using the bounce skill we learnt in the second exercise were going to mix it up a bit.
Please look carefully at the second and fifth bars, in the second bar we play one stroke with each hand, (Right, Left, Right, Left), and, in the fifth bar we play the bounce stroke (Right, Right, Left, Left).
Bar one and four are the same, as are bars three and six. The Idea of this exercise it to try to make bar two and five sound as similar to each other as possible.
Again we’re going to do this exercise at two speeds and make eack drum stroke as evan as we can.
As with Exercise 1 and 2 to help you know where you are a Bass Drum will play the first beat of each bar, and a cymbal will play the first beat of the 3rd and 6th bar.
Note: this is also much harder than it looks and can take a long time to master, please don't get disheartened. Stick at it it’s well worth the effort.
As with exercise 2 a lot of people find the faster version of this a little easier.
