00:09Hey, what's up guys? Austin here from abbdrums.com, back with another drum lesson for you.
00:14In this one, I want to give you some interesting and creative ways to orchestrate five note groupings
00:20around the kit, and this is a really nice little advanced concept to expand your vocabulary and
00:26your chops. So let's get into it here. Now, the first thing we need to understand about this
00:31is we're going to play everything in 16th notes, and we're going to stay in 4-4, and we're going
00:37to
00:37play a five note grouping over that structure. Now, when you play a five note grouping over 4-4
00:43like that, it's going to continue over the bar line, and it's going to take five full measures
00:49before it resolves back on the one. And what we're going to start with is accenting the first and the
00:56third note of each group of five. So 1-2-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5, 1-2
01:01-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5. So if you take
01:04a look at this handy little notation here, what do you guys think about this? I spent like all weekend
01:09trying to figure out how to make it look like this. I think it looks pretty nice, but let me
01:14know in the
01:14comments if you dig it. I think I might make this my thing going into 2020 here. Now, before you
01:21try to
01:21play this as it's written and try to get creative with it, there are some foundational things you
01:27need to solidify before you can play this accurately. So the first thing you want to learn
01:32how to do is count this out loud over a 4-4 click. And the way you're going to do
01:38this is you're going
01:39to try to count out the subdivisions where the one and the three of that five note grouping falls.
01:47So you're going to accent that with the voice. So just let me demonstrate this for you so you can
01:52see how it works. So I'm going to do this at 80 beats per minute. One, two, three, four,
02:15Did that make sense? Could you follow along there? That's actually pretty difficult to do
02:18if you've never done that before, but that's a really great exercise to work it all out in
02:24your mind before you try to play it physically. But once you get that all squared away,
02:29then we can move to the snare drum here. And the sticking pattern we're going to do
02:33is right, left, right, left, left. One, two, three, four, five.
02:45And we're going to do the same thing. Try to play it over this click at 80 beats per minute.
02:50Now,
02:50another thing I highly recommend you do is learn how to keep a pulse with the left foot
02:56underneath that. So at the slower tempo, I'm going to keep eighth notes, but at the higher tempo,
03:01I'm going to switch to a quarter note. But this is a really great way to build up your independence
03:07and
03:07also solidify your time and stay locked in to that pulse. Okay. So let's do it at 80 and then
03:13120.
03:14Here we go.
03:49Once you get that down, then you can start to move into some more creative orchestrations for
03:54this. So let's go ahead and start off with just the most obvious one, which is moving the right
03:59hand around to the toms and coming up with some different combinations there. So let's see what we
04:04can do here. So that's cool. You got a lot of different options there with the toms. Now we can
04:30also incorporate the symbols. So when I do this, I always hit a kick when I hit a symbol. So
04:36let's
04:36start with the ride and go back and forth with the ride and the snare.
05:02You can also bring in the other cymbals to make it a little more energetic.
05:25So you can see there's a lot of interesting things you can do there,
05:28but there's another variation I like to do on this that I feel kind of opens up the pattern a
05:34little
05:34bit. So instead of just accenting the one and three of that five note grouping, you can also
05:40accent the second note. So now you got one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five.
05:57So let's see what we can do with that, moving it around the toms.
06:24I really like this variation because it feels more powerful and like I have more options as a
06:30opposed to always ghosting the left hand. So definitely give this one a shot,
06:34but let's see what else we can do with it. If we start to incorporate the cymbals.
06:51This is probably my favorite pattern out of all of them.
07:22So you can see there's a lot of interesting things.
07:24you can do with it there. Now, when you try to apply this in a more musical setting,
07:30you're probably never going to play it continuously for a long period of time. You'll probably never go
07:35through five full measures of it. Usually you'll do like one bar or two bars. So that's where the
07:42counting comes into play because you really need to be able to hear where you are within a measure
07:47and give yourself time to plan like a fill to come out of it to make sure you come back
07:53down on the
07:53one. So let's try cycling back and forth between one bar of time and just one bar of this five
08:00note
08:00grouping. So you can hear a logical way to transition out of it to come back in on the one.
08:28So that's what sounds natural to me. If I just play one measure of it.
08:36Now you can also do it with two measures, which I think sounds a little bit nicer because you get
08:42to
08:42go over the bar line. So let me jam on a track a little bit going back and forth with
08:48two bars
08:49of time and two bars of this five note grouping. So you can hear what it sounds like.
09:44All right, there you go, guys. Have fun with this one. If this is your first time being exposed to
09:48odd note groupings, it's a really great concept to open up your vocabulary and develop your ears
09:55ability to hear things go over the bar line without losing track of where you are. So definitely do the
10:02counting exercise in the beginning and then experiment with these different orchestrations to see what you
10:08can come up with. If you find anything cooler that I didn't cover here, of course, always tag me on
10:14social and show me what you guys are doing. Also, be sure to subscribe to the channel so you can
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10:19my new videos and visit abbdrums.com if you want to see more of my in-depth courses. But that's
10:25going
10:25to do it for this one. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Take care.
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