Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:03 am
This might be a dumb newbie question but I'm going to ask it anyway. Are there any tricks to learning how to get your hands to do two different things independently of each other?
My instructor was showing me something else that he wanted me to start using. I'm not sure if the intent was to further develop left-right independence or not but that's what's getting me stuck. He wants me to play quarter notes on the bell with the right hand and on 2 hit a "dead" quarter note on the drum with the left and on 4 hit two lively eighth notes on the drum with the left.
I've done a few other things like cascara with one hand and half notes with the other, cascara with one and clave with the other, and cascara with one and fill notes with the other. I do okay with that stuff but I think that's because it feels more like a pattern. The left and right are working together to make the pattern, which is how I see it in my mind.
For whatever reason this new thing feels different. It doesn't feel like a pattern, just two independent things. When I try to do the eighth notes with the left I end up doing them on the right too. In some cases I even find myself doing eighth notes on the right and nothing on the left.
I don't know why I can't get it but it's driving me CRAZY!!!!
Any ideas on how I can overcome this? ??? Thanks.
My instructor was showing me something else that he wanted me to start using. I'm not sure if the intent was to further develop left-right independence or not but that's what's getting me stuck. He wants me to play quarter notes on the bell with the right hand and on 2 hit a "dead" quarter note on the drum with the left and on 4 hit two lively eighth notes on the drum with the left.
I've done a few other things like cascara with one hand and half notes with the other, cascara with one and clave with the other, and cascara with one and fill notes with the other. I do okay with that stuff but I think that's because it feels more like a pattern. The left and right are working together to make the pattern, which is how I see it in my mind.
For whatever reason this new thing feels different. It doesn't feel like a pattern, just two independent things. When I try to do the eighth notes with the left I end up doing them on the right too. In some cases I even find myself doing eighth notes on the right and nothing on the left.
I don't know why I can't get it but it's driving me CRAZY!!!!
Any ideas on how I can overcome this? ??? Thanks.