Tell me, what's your favorite accent to hear?

Practicing Three-Note Accents beats and fills.

Fills using Three-note accents 1

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Me, Desiree, Alexz, & Julia hanging at Iparty, in the car, and the Liberty tree mal

Sometimes I do blog-like stuff. This one was relatively popular, apparently.

Just a video of my and my friends. I know its crap, but I did it ages ago.

just an observation. would love tho here yours

Discussing the ways of "This Little Piggy". The first guy is Kirby, my bestie. Then Cassie, and at the end it's Perry. We're silly. Always. BTW Rachel Moka Moka Moka Mitz if you're out there   more...holler back.  less

just watch

Three-Note Accents 2

A 1 man tour of the British Isles via impressions, impersonations and mimics of many English Accents & Dialects

I speak about English, Amerian accents and German dialects.

There are more Norwegian accents to do, but these are the ones I know the most of... Might do more later.

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Drum exercise: diddles with single-stroke accents

Try this exercise to help you play accents during drum solos. The idea is to play a flow of 32nd-note diddles, but interrupt them with accents. The accents   more...are single strokes, and they are counted as dotted 8th-notes. The exercise repeats every three measures. First, I play all three measures. Then I play each measure separately, four times each. I'm playing this at quarter-note equals 100 bpm.
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Drum warm-up: triplets with accents

Thanks to Alan "vyacheslav" from drum-talk.com for this drumming warm-up triplets exercise, which I am playing at 120 bpm in the video. Here it is:

Start with   more...4/4 Time, RLRL sticking

A. (Accented notes are surrounded by stars) Play each phrase once. The total length of Part A is 3 measures.

Phrase 1: *1* trip let *2* trip let *3* trip let *4* trip let
Phrase 2: 1 *trip* let 2 *trip* let 3 *trip* let 4 *trip* let
Phrase 3: 1 trip *let* 2 trip *let* 3 trip *let* 4 trip *let*

B. (Time signature changes to 2/4 time) Play the first six notes of each phrase, then repeat once. Total length of Part B is 3 measures.

*1* trip let *2* trip let
1 *trip* let 2 *trip* let
1 trip *let* 2 trip *let*
(Repeat)

C. (Time signature changes to 3/4 time) Finally, play the first three notes of each phrase, then repeat 4 times. Total length of Part C is 4 measures.

*1* trip let 2 *trip* let 3 trip *let*
(Repeat 4 times)

This gets into some really cool polyrhythmic stuff, and REALLY helps your timing with a metronome. Even though the time signature changes from 4/4 to 2/4 to 3/4, you can still use a metronome because the meter doesn't change (quarter note is still the downbeat). To really make this a challenge use different stickings, like RRLL or RLRR LRLL or RLLR LRRL etc. Have fun!
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Drum warm-up: 16th notes with accents

Thanks to Alan "vyacheslav" from drum-talk.com for this drumming warm-up 16th note exercise, which I am playing at 120 bpm in the video. Here it is:

4/4 Time,   more...RLRL sticking

A. Start by playing each of the following phrases once. (Accented notes are surrounded by stars). The total length of Part A is 4 measures.

Phrase 1: *1*e&a *2*e&a *3*e&a *4*e&a
Phrase 2: 1*e*&a 2*e*&a 3*e*&a 4*e*&a
Phrase 3: 1e*&*a 2e*&*a 3e*&*a 4e*&*a
Phrase 4: 1e&*a* 2e&*a* 3e&*a* 4e&*a*

B. Now play only the first eight notes of each phrase, then repeat. The total length of Part B is 4 measures.

*1*e&a *2*e&a
3*e*&a 4*e*&a
1e*&*a 2e*&*a
3e&*a* 4e&*a*
(Repeat)

C. Finally, play the first four notes of each phrase once, but repeat four times. The total length of Part C is 4 measures.

*1*e&a 2*e*&a 3e*&*a 4e&*a*
(Repeat 4 times)

The idea is to do the whole "cycle" (A, B and C) without stopping in between. Doing this exercise with a metronome will really help your timing!
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The birds will be all over you with an English accent

English people at their worst

Jim Wayne challenged me to do some acting, so here it is

Just riding to Clinton. This time I split the big clip into 3 seperate vids.

Just riding to Clinton. This time I split the big clip into 3 seperate vids.

Just riding to Clinton. This time I split the big clip into 3 seperate vids.