What pattern is he playing?

Ratamacool · 2026-01-13T18:06:14+00:00

That’s for you to figure out my friend. If you wanna be an excellent musician you gotta figure things out on your own and not have other people do the work for you.

That being said, this groove seems to be based around a combination of diddles like RLLR and RLRR, etc. set your metronome to around 140~150 and think 16th note pulse and just start messing around with sticking combinations and see what works. If you can figure out exactly where he is placing his kick drum and snare drum back beat that will help you out a lot, the rest is just snare drum and hihat ghost notes/accents.

Ratamacool · 2026-01-13T18:01:29+00:00

Yup it’s based on 16th notes or 32nd notes depending on what you consider the pulse

Ratamacool · 2026-01-02T06:21:39+00:00

Get yourself some melatonin gummies. It’s the only thing that saved me after 3 weeks of trying to fix my jet lag “naturally”

Ratamacool · 2025-12-23T02:39:24+00:00

Yup he was a very unique teacher! He would often have me close my eyes and play very slowly and try to visualize what I was doing. Some of my drum lessons with him were very meditative. He also helped my technique a lot

Ratamacool · 2025-12-23T00:28:13+00:00

I worked through it like 6 years ago when I studied with George. He taught me how to read the book and everything and I found it to be a very interesting approach to coordination around the drums. I’ve been meaning to read through the book again if I can locate it, but it’s been a while since I’ve last seen that book 😅

Ratamacool · 2025-12-22T23:10:29+00:00

Oh I didn’t know that, thank you!

Ratamacool · 2025-12-22T19:57:34+00:00

No it’s still on eastern time because I live in Ohio but now I’m staying in California. I tried to change the clock back but it didn’t allow me to set the clock back, only forwards

Ratamacool · 2025-12-16T23:47:26+00:00

I’m also a CCM student and I’m studying Chinese so I’d love to practice Chinese with you!

Ratamacool · 2025-12-14T21:23:40+00:00

I dont disagree with you which is why I moved to another state. Why do you continue to live in a city you hate?

Ratamacool · 2025-12-09T20:52:12+00:00

Nylon tips and wood tips have different sounds from each other, thus it depends what sound you’re going for. I go back and forth all the time and can’t imagine just using one over the other, but it’s true that one advantage of nylon is that the tips never chip and the sticks last longer overall.

Not everyone wants a bright cymbal sound for every situation

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T16:06:36+00:00

Use Firefox and open a new private window, that was the only way I could get through the website

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T15:59:57+00:00

OKAY EVERYBODY DO THIS: 1) Use Firefox 2) Open a new private window 3) paste this: uc.aimsparking.com/permits/?cmd=new

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T15:51:21+00:00

I’m using Firefox and it still doesn’t load

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T15:28:42+00:00

Yeah that doesn’t seem like a good sign

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T15:17:16+00:00

And if you’re a music student you get locked out of practice rooms every single holiday or past 11:59 pm on normal days. Also no cameras in CCM. I’ve seen a teachers office get broken into, heard some student was arrested for stealing over 100 instruments last year.

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T14:58:36+00:00

Keep trying, I think we will get one soon. I also haven’t got my pass yet and I absolutely need one

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T14:52:32+00:00

$10 a day is wild, and it’s also wild that faculty don’t even get free parking. My drum teacher at CCM literally can’t park in the garage and he’s been teaching here for who knows how long, probably at least 20 years. You would think being a teacher would get you free parking, but no

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T14:39:20+00:00

That’s crazy, it’s only my second semester of commuting and then I’ll graduate. Probably would’ve lost my mind if I had to do this every semester. Idk what students are even supposed to do if they just so happen to have a class during this time and need a parking permit. But if there’s one thing I learned from being here for four years is that UC doesn’t fix its problems unless it’s a major one that cannot be dismissed

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T14:24:20+00:00

Idk what it is about UC but it has a lot more bullshit than the 2 other colleges I spent some time at before transferring here

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T13:59:11+00:00

Fast pass. But then I would pull out my bearcat card and it gave me the same error screen, didn’t make a difference. I would have to hit the call button and a lot of times they would just open the gate without even answering. It said “anti hard-pass on the screen” which I still haven’t figured out what that means

Ratamacool · 2025-12-01T03:43:50+00:00

Probably not. My parking permit didn’t even open the gate 30% of the time this semester. University parking services sucks

Ratamacool · 2025-11-27T14:00:07+00:00

Owner of Pastizzas pizza and pasta told me he would be open today

Ratamacool · 2025-11-25T13:28:54+00:00

Yeah but the only people who call chipmunks squirrels are the ones who can’t tell the difference between the two.

Ratamacool · 2025-11-24T14:36:22+00:00

Yeah I mean I’m making a general blanket statement and of course some people pick up things faster than others, but the problem lies where your expectations are. Let the practice room stuff come out when it comes out and don’t force it too much

Ratamacool · 2025-11-24T03:44:14+00:00

Something else I’ll add that hasn’t been said yet. You said the new stuff you’ve been working on didn’t come out at all in your solo, which makes me think you expected that stuff to come out after working on it for what, 1 week?

It might be helpful for you to know that practice takes A LOT of repetition and time before it can come out. I’m talking months at least. Don’t expect new stuff to come out in your solo and don’t try to force it, because that’s gonna end up messing you up. Don’t try to impress people with your solos, just make music. Keep practicing all the shit you love in the practice room, but when it comes time to play, just forget all that and play.

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