niallgregory wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQuj7Ag76Xw This guy has everything you need ...
rhythmrhyme wrote:Thanks Nail,
This fella is who I referred to as "warming up the conga", I think that's what his sheets are labled.
If that's the path, I guess I'll just keep working on it.
RR
windhorse wrote:niallgregory wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQuj7Ag76Xw This guy has everything you need ...
Hey Thanks for that! I have also been excited to learn this technique. My approach is no doubt slower, starting with Bass-Touch exercises where the same hand does the bass and touch. Seemed like a good way to educate the hands into that type of timing. I got pretty good at a 6/8 version where the right hand does a slap, then two tones with the left, then two tones with the right, then a slap with the left that leads back to the right hand slap. But, that's just a small exercise. I think it could make a nice quinto statement if that first slap hit right after the clave's first strike, and maybe that last slap changed to a bass on the clave's first strike. That would set you up for coming out of the clave in the quinto slot, then you could do the full roll twice and end up back in the quinto slot. I tried it only once in a lucid moment, but not in a big hurry. Gotta savor the small breakthroughs along the way.
rhythmrhyme wrote:windhorse wrote:niallgregory wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQuj7Ag76Xw This guy has everything you need ...
Gotta savor the small breakthroughs along the way.
It was really important for me to move away from just the heal/toe in the middle of the drum, which I came to see as the easiest technique, to working open tone doubles, slap/tone doubles, paradidles etc etc etc. I'm at the point now of rolling these together and it's pretty exciting... I think I just need to sit down and decide on a pattern and then work it up to speed. I find I really need to consistently practice this technique, 7-10 days away from it and my speeds still drop considerably. I hold more and more after a break, but it still really sets me back.
windhorse wrote:We may have similar practice styles. I'll always go back to super slow bass-touch exercises for about 20 minutes, then start into double tones,, and my current new focus is paradidles with three drums, and changing slap placements. That, for maybe 20 or 30 minutes building speed and then slowing way down, and then back to really slow technique of bass-touches. The muscle memory is paying huge dividends! Just yesterday my favorite rumba buddies referred to me as becoming a "bad ass".. I think they were just honoring the fact that they can see the improvement. Sounds like you're getting there the same way! Hurray for hard work and diligence!
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