Using The Ride Cymbal

Lesson 5/21 | Study Time: 5 Min
Course: Hip-Hop and R&B Drums
Using The Ride Cymbal

Using The Ride Cymbal

In the following beat, the right hand part is played on the ride cymbal instead of the hihats. This can be done with any of the beats you have learned. Sometimes a drummer will switch between hi-hats and ride for different sections of a song. Each time you learn a new beat, try practicing it using first the hi-hats and then the ride.

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1- INTRODUCTION 2- Note and Rest Values 3- The Eighth Note 4- GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS 5- Drum Machines 6- Putting It All Together 7- Quarter Notes On The Hi-hats 8- Sixteenth Notes 9- Playing The Open Hi-Hats 10- Sixteenth Note Triplets 11- Sixteenths On The Hi-hats 12- Sixteenth Notes On The Bass Drum 13- Different Hi-hat Sounds 14- Dotted Eighth Notes 15- Hip-Hop Quotes 16- Combining Eighth And Sixteenth Notes 17- A Universal Drum Beat 18- Ghost Notes 19- Bass Drum Variations 20- Using The Ride Cymbal 21- Learning From Recordings

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