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jivadayadasa
11-12-2009, 12:59 AM
Any good two-ride grooves or resources with patterns/exercises that you've used and like? I am experimenting with open hand playing and just got a 602 flat ride that I have set up just above my hihat (on the left). Paul Wertico and Rod Morgenstein have been good resources so far and I have happened upon some cool ideas that I like but would appreciate any comments you have.

Thank you
hunterde
11-12-2009, 01:27 AM
what style - jazz - rock - latin
jivadayadasa
11-12-2009, 02:42 AM
rock/fusion/jazz twenty
Casper "DrPowerStroke" Paludan
11-12-2009, 07:22 AM
Just playing the same material but with switched hands is automatically cool, because it sounds different when you switch hands. Now, as far as comping goes, I look at it as another comping universe opens up: when you play RH on right ride, LH on snare, the most easily accessible voices apart from the snare, are your hihat, side tom, and your LH ride.

When you play your LH ride with your LH, and RH on snare, the side tom is still easily accessible, but the floor tom opens up, as well as the RH ride. Plus anything else you have sitting on your right side.

An easy idea is to then take the pattern you usually play between ride and snare with your RH ride, and play then with the same hands but on the left. Now, you will get some pretty interesting (and weird) sounds. Some of them are useful, never before thought of gems!!

Casper
jivadayadasa
11-12-2009, 06:30 PM
An easy idea is to then take the pattern you usually play between ride and snare with your RH ride, and play then with the same hands but on the left. Now, you will get some pretty interesting (and weird) sounds. Some of them are useful, never before thought of gems!!

Casper

Thanks for the reply! I have been playing some of my favorite grooves open-handed and you are so right, they really do have a different feel and it's like I'm discovering them for the first time. I have definitely already found some cool variations just because of where my hands are and which side of the set I have sound sources.

Now I am trying to play one or two bars of a groove right hand/right side and then transition smoothly to left hand/left side. Billy Cobham does this seamlessly and it's a challenge as well as great fun.

Thanks again, always appreciate your pots.

Jiva