Your First Year of Drum Lessons – Week 18 – Hands – Quarter Note Triplets, Drag Taps, Odd Times
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Welcome to week eighteen of our technique/theory/pad lessons. In this lesson we’ll get more fully into drags with the Single and Double Drag Tap rudiments. We’ll talk more deeply about triplets as we discuss the quarter and half note triplets. And we’ll learn one of my favorite old drum corps exercises “5, 7, 9,” which uses the time signatures 5/8, 7/8, and 9/8.
Adam Neely’s most excellent lesson on counting “The Ever-Expanding Triplet:
Quarter and Half Note Triplet Counting Explanation:
pennylarson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Quarter-and-Half-Note-Triplets.pdf
5, 7, 9:
pennylarson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/579-revised.pdf
Here’s a sheet with the 40 standard Percussive Arts Society Rudiments:
www.pas.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/pas-drum-rudiments-2018dcccc96de1726e19ba7fff00008669d1.pdf
A few years ago I made a series focused just on the rudiments called “A Rudiment a Day.” Here are links to the rudiments we worked on today for review:
Single Drag Tap:
Double Drag Tap:
How to practice effectively…for just about anything – Annie Bosler and Don Greene:
#triplets #drags #oddtime
