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EDS Lesson Seven  Phrasing Part 1 (introducing phrasing for fills)

Developing movement using the accents around the kit

Placing the accent on a drum, other than the snare, often helps, as there is a clarity of sound, distinguishing the accent from the ghost notes.

I would put the accents using the lead hand on the floor tom, (the ‘beat’ and the ‘+’) and then place the accents using the non lead hand on the hi-tom (the ‘e’ and the ‘a’).

DrumXtractor tip

This file can be looped to play a bar or two bars at a time. So if you wanted to practise just moving to the floor tom on the beat, you could just loop the first bar - for instance.

Exercise 6

Exercise 6
Xtractor MIDI File Upload exercise to myGigajam Large stave

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