(funky rock music) – Hello, guys. Welcome back. This is Gabor "Gabs" Dornyei
here at the Drumeo studios. Today I'm going to
teach you a groove that is recorded by
everybody's favorite, the great Vinnie Colaiuta, on a Sting number
called "7 Days." Let's get to the groove. So the first application will
be the top line of the chart that you can see on the
bottom of the screen. This is probably
the most simple way you can play a five four groove.
Okay? So "Seven Days,"
the song is in five four. Now, you're going to play
quarter note to the high hat, beat one on the bass drum,
and beat four on the snare. Just like this. One,
two, three, four five. One, two, three,
four, five. One. (mumbles)
(drumming) In the second line
of the notation, you find the first
little bit tricky thing, that we're going to accent every second note
on the right hand. Now the reason for
that is because Sting
wanted the audience to feel that the
song is in four four, while actually, the
meter is in five four. So, your accents will fall on the one, two,
three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five,
one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five,
one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three,
four, five, one.
Okay? And then,
as the next step, in the next line you can see a dotted quarter note and
an eighth note bass drum, which is happening throughout
the whole song, okay? So that will be this. One,
two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five.
(drumming) So now you have the basic groove with the original bass
drum pattern happening, and the accent in the four four. Now we're going to start
adding the eighth notes, very quickly on the high hat.
One, two, three, four,
five, no accent so far. (drumming) One, two, three, four, five,
one, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five,
one, two, three, four, five. Now, the same thing with the
original bass drum pattern. (drumming) Your third chart will show the
accent in a four four feel, but played as an eighth note. One, two, three, four, five,
one, two, three, four, five. (drumming) Same thing with the
final bass drum pattern. (drumming) Okay, so now that we
have the main groove that Vinnie plays
throughout the song, with the accented eighth
notes in groups of four, sometimes he also
opens the high hat, or plays the accent on the bell.
What I'm going to
demonstrate now is what if you opened high
hat on the accented notes, and leave the following
eighth note out. So you would have the …
(drumming) But that's going to happen
over a five four groove, so altogether you have this.
One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five.
(drumming) The second line of
the same notation is the opposite version
of the high hat openings. It would be something like this. One, two, three, four, five.
One, two, three, four, five. (drumming) So the next one. Check out
the fifth notation below. It's a shuffle beat
that Vinnie plays on the right bell occasionally, and some splashes, as a fill, sort of a build up
toward the choruses.
Now, the shuffle
beat would be this. One, a two, a three, a four,
if we were in four four. Right, because
we're in five four, the shuffle note's going to fall into completely
different places. This is pretty advanced,
so check this out. (drumming) And in your last clip today, we're going to start something that is an addition
to this groove. Well, we're going to play the shuffle beat on
the right cymbal bell. Keep the high hat happening
on the two and four. We should cross over the bar.
Let's say in the first bar it's
going to be a two and four. Second bar is going
to be one, three, and fifth quarter note, but the kick drum
pattern remains the same. So, at the end of the lesson, you're going to
have the right foot and the left hand
playing in five four. The left foot goes in four four. And the right hand plays
actually in three eight, which is the shuffle beat. Okay, so altogether
you're going to have this. (drumming) I hope you guys enjoyed
this lesson on "Seven Days." Please make sure to
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