cajun voyage
Junior Member
I've only been playing a couple of months and have my 4 piece setup with the tom just to the left of the bass and basically behind my snare. I'm beginning to read music and follow and play some simple measures.
The 4 piece seems to work fine most of the time for the simple stuff I'm doing right now, except when it comes to fills and playing around the kit. Example, the sheet music calls for 4 notes on snare, high-tom, mid-tom and floor tom respectively. I only have one mounted 8x12 tom and a 16x16 floor tom.
Is there a basic rule-of-thumb when it comes to this situation? Should I play 4 notes on snare, tom, floor tom, then 4 on the snare again? Or should I play 4 notes on snare, 4 notes on tom and then 8 on floor tom?
I'm just looking for something simple to do to get me through the exercises and then later when I'm more experienced I'll get more creative with it.
Thanks.
The 4 piece seems to work fine most of the time for the simple stuff I'm doing right now, except when it comes to fills and playing around the kit. Example, the sheet music calls for 4 notes on snare, high-tom, mid-tom and floor tom respectively. I only have one mounted 8x12 tom and a 16x16 floor tom.
Is there a basic rule-of-thumb when it comes to this situation? Should I play 4 notes on snare, tom, floor tom, then 4 on the snare again? Or should I play 4 notes on snare, 4 notes on tom and then 8 on floor tom?
I'm just looking for something simple to do to get me through the exercises and then later when I'm more experienced I'll get more creative with it.
Thanks.