From the course: Drum Set Lessons: On the Beaten Path

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Accelerando and ritardando

Accelerando and ritardando

From the course: Drum Set Lessons: On the Beaten Path

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Accelerando and ritardando

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- Up until now we've been playing at a steady tempo, and all the beats, all the fills, everything we've learned has been played at a steady tempo. But there's ways to change the way you view time. So we can speed things up, we can slow it down, we can manipulate time, tempo, meter in all sorts of ways. So let's get going. One way a musician could kind of manipulate time is to do what we call double time, and this is a concept of taking a regular time beat, like one and two, and three and four, and one and snare, and three and snare and, okay, and moving those snare beats to the ands, and what you're essentially doing is making the beat sound like it's being played twice as fast, like you're doubling the tempo, and that's why we call it double time, but it's really, you're just playing the same tempo. You're just moving the placement of the beats. So it would turn from one and two, and three and four and, to one and two, and three and four and, one snare, one snare, one snare, one…

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