Need new/fun stuff!

[NCDrummer]

My cousin and his dad came up and played on my kit and they kick my ***! I thought i was pretty good but some of the stuff my cousin plays is kick *** and sounds great...i just play beats but he moves around the kit more and does cool fills and ****...

can you guys suggest some things to play that'd sound cool and fun?

[slim_jim147]

Funk! for How much time did't you play drums???:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[NCDrummer]

what?

[RedDot]

When you do fills you can work you way so the listeners can anticipate a fill. While you're playing the beat, throw a open hi-hat, a tom or lightly skim the crash at the beginning or middle of the beat. After you created the anticipation, you can let them hang for the rest of the measure, by playing the fill the next measure. Or, you can put the fill in right there, at the end of the measure you are currently on.

When playing fills, don't do that straight 16ths crap. Have rests in there, make the fill compliment the beat. If you have a snare on the 4, put a snare on the 4 in your fill. Also, you don't have to end every fill with a crash, hell, you could even play nothing for 3 quarter notes and come in halfway through one measure.

It's really all about the style you're playing.
Remember, drumming isn't about playing as much as you can all at once, it has to groove.

(This entire post was written having no knowledge of how long you've been playing, what style of music you do play and/or techniques or basic knowledge of drums you may already have.)

[slim_jim147]

what?

sry!

You can learn to play funk, every body love funk.
For how much time do you play drum???:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[NCDrummer]

i've been playing for 5 years

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Any audio?

[Aaron]

I don't understand this thread, what are you asking?

[moogoogaipan]

it's all about phrasing.
You can have crappy chops, and still have good phrasing ability.

Phrasing will help you sound better, unfortunately, thats one of those skills that most people could care less about.

[stevensonmat2]

what exactly is phrasing?

[moogoogaipan]

It's hard to describe, but I'll try.

It's how you punctuate and compose a sentence. When you speak, you phrase your wording, perhaps pausing or raising your tone to indicate emphasis on a word. You vocal tones will rise and fall based on your mood and whatnot.

It's this idea, played out on your drums.

Or another way to think about it is to think of your favorite song. You know where the singer is headed with his words because of his phrasing. He's setting everything up to move to the next segment.

I know this is confusing... ask more questions and I'll be able to clarify even further.

[Aaron]

It's the HOW of a note being played.

Think of when you hit a ride;
do you use the bead or the shoulder
do you use a sweeping motion or a straight ping
do you drive through the ride or brush it or something else
is it behind or in front of the beat
is it emphasising something in the song being louder or softer
etc...

combine all of those things and think of the context in the song.

[stevensonmat2]

cool, thanks guys thats makes sense.:chug:

[Ethan.]

Use the bass drum in your fills. Thats something a lot of people don't really think about much, but it is really cool and it adds a whole new sound to your fills.

[Sync0pation]

Play a beat with snare on 2 and 4, bass on 1 and 2+

play that four times

next measure play
snare on 2 and 4, bass on 1, 1a, and 3+

works wonders

Chad Smith played it live last October, and it blew my mind. Such a simple beat made so groovy using anticipation and syncopation.

However, he was probably ghosting all over the place that I didn't hear....ghosting is good (most of the time)