most awesome beat training method ever
Or, how to learn to play along with drums without being in an actual band:
1) fire up the Hydrogen drum machine (freeware!)
2) play demo "Diddly" or "Jazz"
3) improvise!
This is great because you can't settle into an easy strum/chord pattern and stay there--the drums keep mixing it up, and so will you. If you're a n00b like me, have fun fumbling over strings whenever your brain starts thinking, "hmm, some melody would be nice."
I wonder if there's a way to randomly play single-measure rock and jazz drum patterns in 4/4 time, so that the drum machine really is improvising along with you.
(Lisa, I guess you could call this "getting down with Hydrogen.")
1) fire up the Hydrogen drum machine (freeware!)
2) play demo "Diddly" or "Jazz"
3) improvise!
This is great because you can't settle into an easy strum/chord pattern and stay there--the drums keep mixing it up, and so will you. If you're a n00b like me, have fun fumbling over strings whenever your brain starts thinking, "hmm, some melody would be nice."
I wonder if there's a way to randomly play single-measure rock and jazz drum patterns in 4/4 time, so that the drum machine really is improvising along with you.
(Lisa, I guess you could call this "getting down with Hydrogen.")