Lessons, Week 48

We went over 7 stroke roll exercises out of the sticking book. Then we went over basic rock beats (snare on 2, 4...ride on eighth notes...various basic patterns on bass) and adding in high hat foot on

1) 2 and 4
then
2) 1, 2, 3, 4
then
3) and of 1, 2, 3, 4

I totally can't do the third pattern...but the next step would be on the "e" of 1, 2, 3, 4...etc, etc. Main lesson here...need to work on left foot strength and endurance...and independence. But I knew that already.

He played a song with Philly Joe Jones playing and we talked about high hat as time keeper in jazz. He also talked about how those session guys back in the day never got song writing credit even though they wrote the parts...so totally got screwed out of royalties and ended up in poverty even though they played on hundreds or thousands of records.