How to play 16th notes with one hand  

Haha exactly

Will you eventually learn how to spell “least” correctly?🤡

Me too, and honestly every other drummer I’ve discussed this with. Mostly it’s out of necessity when you run out of gas, your arm can’t play 16ths anymore, but you’re on stage and can’t stop and must figure it out.

That’s what happened for me

yup. Although there ARE instances where the music calls for even 16ths on the hihat rather than accents. Usually you can play that with two hands though

Definitely. 👍

I got ALOT better at this and drumming in general by practicing with a small shaker in my left hand on the steering wheel while I drive (and blast music) I've been doing this since 2017, when I lost the privilege of having open access to a large hall to store and use my full array of music gear. I had to do something to keep up, and I was driving long distances at the time. I first tried putting a snare on my passenger seat but that got tiresome trying to move it around while driving so now I've just been always with the left hand shaker (I'm right handed) and sometimes a stick in the wheel (my steering wheel actually creates a decent thud if you hit it with the fat part of the stick and on 12 o clock position or 6 o clock position of the steering wheel... and also a decent "thwack" when you hit it with the skinny part of the stick and on the side of the wheel or 3 o clock. Now when I play drums (which is unfortunately a rarity lately) I pretty much have become an "open" position player or ambidextrous regarding which hand is in the hats or which is on the snare... Only thing is, now, my legs are way behind. Can't think of any practical ways to practice bass or double bass while driving! Hey, this is just what I did And still do ... Something I developed out of an unfortunate loss of a practice space, and overwhelming need to keep practicing. Do what you have to do, to keep doing you. There's more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak! Think outside the box!

@@patmurch6184 put the car on cruise control and your feet are free to practice.

its not hard to teach you just show someone the two different motions and how to link them.

Hey, it helped but I had to start with the palm instead of the fingers. Then it clicked. Thanks ✌️

So well said!

100% agreed

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Lol good one 🤙🏼

Yes😀then you can play with a broken arm

I imagine that you knew that Todd studied with Gary too. BTW, both of you like Steve Smith among many other ultra skilled drummers studied with Gary. I am skilled but intermidate at best so Gary would likely have been frustrated with my playing though I do have desire and passion to play and play.

Hi Rick, While at Berklee, I studied with both Gary and Ed Kaspik at the same time; they were friends. Ed was in the Faculty at Berklee and he recommended Gary, who taught out of his home. Ed was as amazing as Gary, but a whole different style. Ed was a Master in polyrhythms, with phenominal technique. Not only did I study with both of them at the same time for nearly 2 years, I also was under the wing of Peter Magadini who was part of the Berklee visiting-artist series. Peter conducted Master classes in Polyrhythmic coordination for drum set. I have much to thank them all for. ALWAYS KEEP PLAYING!! @@rick3747

Wait until you try "extreme metal"

@@WhereThereDude aka: sprinting on the drums until you pass out. 😰💀

@@WhereThereDude I've bought drums just to learn how to compose the drum sections for my songs, because have no clue how to do it right, but who knows, maybe it will be more interesting, than I thought)

@@CyrilViXP it's exhausting at times

Probably holding a lot of tension, creating fatigue. It's bad for technique, endurance, rhythm, and tone.

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Hope this helps!

Took me a while aswell, i played What You Won't Do For Love by Bobby Caldwell over and over to get better 16th on my hi-hat. Worked great for me. When u get the speed down then work on your sound.

Moeller doesn't include this back and forth type of thing. Moller is about the upstroke and the downstroke and using the momentum on the Y-axis. This technique in the video is different

not quite möller. but theres only so much you can do with the hand in that position so the techniques are likely all gonna be similar

Very Moeller ish yet not the same. I would say the moeller technique is the best. Vertical movement is more effecient

kind of. it feels very similar at least. just a bigger range of motion