Clave & Coordination - part 1 - by Alain Rieder

Here's a few exercises that I wrote to gain independance between my left-foot clave and the rest of the set.

Small tom is played with the left hand, floor tom with the right.

Left foot can play the hi-hat, a cowbell or a woodblock.

 

Exercise 1 | mp3

Here's the basic pattern for toms and bass-drum:

 

Exercise 2 | mp3

Here's the same pattern, displaced and starting on the second note:

 

Exercise 3 | mp3

Once more the same pattern, starting on the third note:

 

Exercise 4 | mp3

To make things a little easier, we can isolate the feet patterns.

Here's what corresponds to exercise 1:

 

Exercise 5 | mp3

Here's what corresponds to exercise 2:

 

Exercise 6 | mp3

And here's what corresponds to exercise 3:

 

Exercise 7 | mp3

Now back to the pattern from exercise 1, but this time without the bass-drum:

 

Exercise 8 | mp3

This pattern is the one from exercise 2, without the bass-drum:

 

Exercise 9 | mp3

And this one corresponds to exercise 3:

 

Copyright © 2001 Alain Rieder

These exercises have been published in the French drum magazine Drummer, september 2001.

In the second part, we'll work on a series of patterns in duple time. Have fun!

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