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                        Title: Quarter and 8th note Snare Solo

                              Recommended For: Beginners

                                 Time Signature: 4/4 

                                   By: Kevin Picone

                                Date: 9th, Nov, 2000 
                                    (my birthday :)

                              Email: picone@giant.net.au

                          URL: www.thedrummachine.50megs.com

                 Copyright: (c) Kevin Picone 2000, All Rights Reserved.

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 Intro:



   Here we have a little snare solo, it will help build coordination between your hands
 and your bass drum foot.
 
   Once you feel confortable playing it, you can trying randomly playing it around the
 drum kit, rather than just playing all the notes on the snare.


   It's wise to try working on these exercises both with the Bass Drum Part or your Hi Hat
 foot, and make sure you work with your metronome !!


   

Aim #1: Get comfortable playing each rhythm through once, with & without the counting, if
        you can do this, try playing it 2,3,4 times through or more without stopping. 


Aim #2: Try for a range of tempos, Start out slowly (around 60 / 70 bpm's) then medium
        (100bpm) and fast up to (130 / 140 bpm's or higher is you can). The objective is
        make each note clean and evenly spaced. 


Aim #3: Try playing each line of exercises without stopping, keeping it evenly spaced
        the entire time. Next, Try 2 lines, then 3 lines and ultimately the entire
        lesson from top to bottom. To take this another step further, you can try
        playing the exercises randomly, this will help your reading and visualization
        skills greatly.




        Note: This is a solo, your meant to try and play it from start to finnish..

   "Start"


   Count: ||     1     2     3  +  4          |       1  +  2     3  +  4       |
Sticking: ||4    R     L     R  L  R          |       R  L  R     R  L  R       |
   Snare: ||/    o     o     o  o  o          |       o  o  o     o  o  o       |
BassDrum: ||4    o     o     o     o          |       o     o     o     o       |
  

   Count: |     1  +  2     3  +  4  +       |       1     2     3  +  4        |
Sticking: |     R     L     R  L  R  L       |       R     L     R  L  R        |
   Snare: |     o     o     o  o  o  o       |       o     o     o  o  o        |
BassDrum: |     o     o     o     o          |       o     o     o     o        |


   Count: |     1  +  2  +  3     4  +       |       1     2  +  3  +  4        |
Sticking: |     R  L  R  L  R     R  L       |       R     R  L  R  L  R        |
   Snare: |     o  o  o  o  o     o  o       |       o     o  o  o  o  o        |
BassDrum: |     o     o     o     o          |       o     o     o     o        |


   Count: |     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +       |       1  +  2  +  3  +  4        |
Sticking: |     R  L  R  L  R     R  L       |       R  L  R     R  L  R        |
   Snare: |     o  o  o  o  o     o  o       |       o  o  o     o  o  o        |
BassDrum: |     o     o     o     o          |       o     o     o     o        |


   Count: |     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +       |       1     2  +  3  +  4        |
Sticking: |     R  L  R  L  R  L  R          |       R     R  L  R  L  R        |
   Snare: |     o  o  o  o  o  o  o          |       o     o  o  o  o  o        |
BassDrum: |     o     o     o     o          |       o     o     o     o        |


   Count: |     1  +  2  +  3  +  4  +       |       1  +  2  +  3  +  4       ||
Sticking: |     R  L  R  L  R  L  R          |       R  L  R  L  R  L  R       ||
   Snare: |     o  o  o  o  o  o  o          |       o  o  o  o  o  o  o       || FINE
BassDrum: |     o     o     o     o          |       o     o     o     o       ||



 

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                (c) copyright 2000, By Kevin Picone, All Rights reserved.

                    For more Lessons, be sure to visit my web site, at

                          Http://www.thedrummachine.50megs.com

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