(drum music) (intense drum music) – Hey, everyone, my name is Quincy Davis, and thank you for tuning in. I am really excited about this lesson. I'm always excited about the lessons, but especially this lesson, because I'm talking about hand to foot combinations
for drums, right? And it's something that
regardless of the style or the genre that you play the most, you have to be really
comfortable with playing ideas that are based off of hand to feet or feet to hand combinations, right? It's similar to independence. There's no way around it. You gotta deal with it
and you gotta work on it or else it will not improve. By the way, if you're new and
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thought of the lesson, or if you have any questions or anything else you wanna share, leave it in the comment section. So this lesson is unique in that it's actually a series of excerpts from my workout video, a hand to foot combination workout video that you can play along with me. And in this video, I'm playing through a handout
that I will make available for free, of course, as I always do.
The link will be down below. You can play along with me, and I'm playing through all
these different exercises at a fairly moderate tempo. It's not too slow, not too fast. So I think everybody will be
able to play along with me. So that workout video is available in my digital
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really helpful for many of you who are struggling your
hand to foot combinations.
So check it out. (drum music) Now, before we get into
those workout video excerpts, I wanna give you three combinations that you can work on right now, and you should strive to
master these combinations. I was just demonstrating all
three of them right there. There are combinations that
will enhance everything you do, including if you're playing a groove, if you're soloing, if you're trying to play a fill. They're just gonna make everything
you do much easier, okay? So the first one is just hand, foot. Boom. Done. (drum beats) Or, (drum beat and cymbals clink) right? You can always substitute
the bass drum with a hi-hat. So (drum music) Really simple. And with all of these, you can decide to add the hi-hat. I talk about this in the video. So you can, (drum music) Now, for some of you, that
will be too difficult. So, just leave the hi-hat out.
Right? And play at the tempo
that you're comfortable. So start slow. (drum music) Start slow, and you can kind of improvise based off of that, okay? On different grids. The second combination
that I wanna show you right off the bat is two
hands, one foot, okay? Two hands, one foot. So. (drum music) In groupings of three. So. (drum music) Of course, you can substitute
the base drum with a hi-hat. (drum music) Okay? So you can practice
this on different grids as you should practice
it on different grids. So. (drum music) Add triplets or 8th Notes.
Or 6th. Okay? And again, you can decide
to add your hi-hat or not. Some of you, that's
gonna be too challenging. So just leave it out for
now, but work towards that. All right, and the third
combination I wanna show you right out the bat is two
hands, two feet, okay? (drum music) That's it, okay? In context, if we play it, 2, 3, 4. (drum music) Okay? So all three together. I'll kind of improvise using
all three of those together. Just on 8th Notes for now, or it'll be 16th notes. So let's see what that sounds like.
Here we go. 1, 2, 3, 4. (drum music) 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2. All right, you get it? You get it? We're gonna do it again. And I want you to notice this time how I'm gonna start to use dynamics. Dynamics and accents to
make it sound more musical. 'Cause right now I'm
treating all the notes as if they're the same dynamic, right? I'm not really making it
sound as musical as I can. So let's see what it sounds
like staying on the same grid. So we're just playing 16th Notes, One e end, at two e end, at
three e end, at four e end, at one e end. But now let's see what it sounds like playing it with more dynamics
and more shape, right? More feel. Here we go. 1, 2, 3, 4. (drum music) Hear the difference? So as I always tell my students, whatever the exercise you're playing, no matter how complex or how simple, we always wanna try to
make it sound musical as if you're performing
it at Carnegie Hall for thousands of people, okay? And if you can do that,
then when you get on a gig, you'll already be in that mindset when you go to apply some of these things that you're practicing, all right? So definitely start out
with those combinations before even getting into the full handout, the exercises on the handout, because we go through a lot
of different permutations.
I think 46 different permutations. So definitely work on that, but before that, you can kind of improvise and work on this in different ways. And just try to get
comfortable with this exercise, with these combinations first. All right, without further ado, here are some excerpts
from that workout video, focusing on hand to foot
combinations for drums. Enjoy. Bye-bye. Here's number one, one note
bass drum combinations, okay? (soft beats) One, two. (drum music) Whoops. Now what I wanna make sure you know, you can use your hands in different ways. You could add accents
as you're hearing me do. Right? You can also, you can just play one hand. As you get faster, this
becomes much harder. Left-hand which is
usually the weaker hand. Notice, I'm moving around the drum. You can also just stay on one drum. That's perfectly cool, right? Or alternate. Or doubles, whatever you wanna do. Okay? So make sure you
kind of have a strategy as to what you wanna do with your hands.
And you can add dynamics as well. The other thing I will
say is adding hi-hat. That is something that will require even more coordination and skill. So I'll show you what that sounds like. 1, 2, 1. (drum music) Adding dynamics. Play quiet. Right? This is a super common combination. Super common combination that you really wanna
get comfortable with. Let's move on to number three. (mimics drum beats) 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4. (drum music) Right? You can add accents too. The bass drum too. This one you can kind
of swing if you want.
Play unison. Bebop. Super common bebop approach. Right? Okay, here's number four. Tricky because it's an odd grouping, okay? So let's see what that sounds like. 1, 2. (drum music) Right? All right, so now we're gonna try the two note bass drum combinations. I mean, all the things that
we did in the first one apply to this one along
with all the other exercises that we're gonna do. And again, hi-hat is optional, okay? So if you're not comfortable with it, just leave it out and
work on it down the road once you get comfortable without it. 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4. (drum music) Two. Three. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Okay? Number 10. Two, eight times 10. (drum music) Two. Three. Four. Five.
Six. Seven. Eight. Here we go. Okay, here's exercise three, where we're gonna be isolating
hand-foot combinations at different rates, okay? This is where it gets fun
because we're using combinations, but at different rates. And it challenges, not only the coordination
of the combinations, but also your ability
to hear different rates using those coordinations
and those combinations, okay? So don't be fooled by this one
because it starts very slow, but it speeds up. The fastest, in this case is number 19, which is the sextuplets. 1, 2, 3, 4. (drum music) Number 15. 16. 17. 18. Here we go. 19. 20. 1, 2, 3, relax. (drum music) 16th Notes. 6th Note triplets. 32nd. Hey, congratulations. You made it all the way
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