From the course: Carter Beauford: Under the Table and Drumming

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Hi-hat approach

Hi-hat approach

From the course: Carter Beauford: Under the Table and Drumming

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Hi-hat approach

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- I look at the high hat, the same as I do with all my drums. They're there each one of them have voices of their own separate voices. And with those voices, I look at them as harmonizing with each other. I use the high hat more so with, different rhythms patterns, because it's a part of the main focus with the drum kit, which is the, the bass drum, the snare drum, the high hat. Those are the three main ingredients to drumming. And I try to, more or less speak harmoniously with the high hat, to the snare drum and the bass drum by playing syncopated rhythms a lot, by not giving a straight beat, a straight quarter note beat, or a straight 16th, it gets kind of monotonous after a while for me to do that, unless I'm playing a tune that requires a straight beat, or vice versa unless it, a tune requires a lot of syncopated rhythms on the high hat. So, so that's basically what, what I'm looking for when, when I'm…

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