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Billy Ashbaugh: Opening Hi-Hat Grooves Pt.2

by billy ashbaugh on 04/06/2009 | 14,563 Views | 6 Comments

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This is a follow up to our Opening Hi-Hat Grooves Introduction Lesson. Here we're going to explore playing the kick drum underneath the hi-hat. We're also going to move to the ride and use our left hand on the open hi-hat as well.

Billy Ashbaugh: Opening Hi-Hat Groove Introduction

by billy ashbaugh on 02/18/2009 | 7,291 Views | 0 Comments

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Hope you enjoy this introduction to opening the hi-hat in a basic groove.   Hey everybody welcome back again. It's Billy Ashbaugh here at DrummerConnection.com. in the Drum Room. And I've got a lesson today for all you beginners out there, just getting started. What we're going to do is we're gonna kinda wake the left foot up and we're going to start opening the hi-hat in some grooves, some basic grooves. As easy as this sounds, I caution you to be patient because so far chances are your left foot has just hung out applying pressure keeping the two hi-hat cymbals together. Now we're going to get use to raising it and lowering it in time. And you'll see depending on where we open it and close it, the left foot is going to be moving up and down against the right foot and left hand so it can be kind of tricky. I want to start off with a basic groove and we'll try to open the hi-hat on the “&” of 4 and then close it again on one. So w... more...

Billy Ashbaugh: Kit Dynamics

by billy ashbaugh on 02/16/2009 | 16,629 Views | 3 Comments

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Here's a lesson on the beginning concepts of dynamics on the kit with your hands. Hey everybody welcome back. Here we are we're back in the Drum Room. We're up and running officially now. I'm excited, Eric's excited, everybody's excited...so we're sitting around here thinking what's the first lesson we want to shot out here. We've went through, we set everything up, talked through getting some angles. Talked through tuning, that sort of thing. So I thought, you know what, it's real important even if you're just beginning or picking up the sticks and getting into the drum set. I want to talk about dynamics. Some of this stuff may be a little hard to get a hold of in the beginning but just put it in the back of your mind and you more seasoned guys just sort of revisit this stuff and check this out. As drummers we spend the majority of our time (hand wise, we're going to discuss hands here dynamic wise first...we'll get to the kic... more...

Billy Ashbaugh: Ghost Note Groove #1

by billy ashbaugh on 02/13/2009 | 8,360 Views | 5 Comments

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This is a little funk groove inspired years ago by Rod Morgenstein. I've incorporated a 5 stroke roll along with opening the hi-hat to help spice it up a bit.....enjoy!! Hello Billy Ashbaugh here with DrummerConnection.com and we're here in the Drum Room again. We just shot a lesson about dynamics and sort of getting use to rimshots and ghost notes, hi-hat, the tip of the stick, the bell of the ride, all these things. So I thought hey let me hit you guys with sort of a funk ghost note groove that Rod Morgenstein sort of exposed me to years ago on his 1st video...VHS at the time. At that time in my playing it really helped me out a lot. I did sort of a version of that I want to share with you. What he did that sort of inspired me was that he took straight 8th notes on the hi-hat with the right hand and did â€œeâ€'s and â€œaâ€'s filled in lightly, tapped as ghost notes with the left hand, keeping his hands there, and then came down for 2 & 4 on the snare... more...