This Single Stroke Four Orchestration lesson will follow a different idea to those covered previously. So far everything has been based around the idea of moving in set 'blocks' then varying the lengths of those blocks. This time you will be moving in a 'shape' that in my head makes a triangle. This will involve playing one stroke each over two drums followed by two notes on a third drum. This will hopefully start to make sense when you play the patterns but has been covered previously for a Single Stroke Roll.
As always, feet have been included in all exercises but experiment with different patterns to those shown If you are finding an exercise difficult it would be worth removing the feet until you are comfortable with the hands. In the last two exercises on the page a block of four is put before the 'triangle' pattern.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
TASKS
- Using the 2 Minute Rule, get all exercises up to a tempo of at least 120bpm.
- Create your own orchestrations using this concept.
- Experiment with various different feet patterns in each exercise.
