Good hello!
In this post, we’re going to revisit our Pitter Patter video, which is an extra technique video to help you improve your feel when drumming – you can find this video in the Technique > Other Instruments section of African Drumming Online:
https://africandrummingonline.com/technique/otherinstruments/
We thought it would be a good idea to develop a blog series where we take some of our most popular free videos, and distill the info into text form as best we can. Different people learn in different ways, so we hope this helps some of you!
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https://africandrummingonline.com/
I wanted to do a blog post for this video, because I think it’s an important concept and exercise for both beginner and more advanced drummers alike.
The only problem with this one is I don’t know how to convert it to a text format – I think it works better as a video!
So, instead of attempting to summarise the whole video, I thought I’d just make an attempt to notate the exercise contained within – I recommend watching the video to understand what the exercise is about, and I recommend practising this exercise. It will help!
I’ve notated the pitter patter exercise from the video with the following – ‘T’ means a tone, ‘p’ means a pitter patter tap. So, the rhythm is like this:
If you’re not sure how to read this notation style, checkout the 11th episode of our ‘Blergh’ that explains how, here:
https://africandrummingonline.com/blergh/
So, the task is to use that exercise as a basis for practising adding Pitter Patter to your playing – start by just playing the rhythm slowly, then speed it up, then try and get the tones loud and the pitter patter nearly silent, then try grooving around on the rhythm and improvising!
Best of luck! Let me know how you go!
