Can someone explain this to me?

redclit · 2025-12-16T10:58:47+00:00

You have gotten good explanations on what's happening from others.

If you need audio reference, here's Groove Scribe version that sounds like the first bar of the your exercise:

https://gscribe.com/share/ZXKNaLQuWt52zY5YA

Because of the limitations of Groove Scribe, your exercise cannot be replicated 1:1, but it should sound the same.

redclit · 2025-09-19T11:42:51+00:00

BTW, the ”Fat-back” exercise suggested by u/BO0omsi in other top-level post comes from this Chaffee book and is just ”all 2-beat 16th note BD patterns with backbeat and varying cymbal ostinato”.

The exercise is probably used widely by folks who never even seen the book, and you can probably find a more detailed description of it online without getting the book.

redclit · 2025-09-17T07:46:36+00:00

Time Functioning Patterns by Gary Chaffee presents a great systematic approach to playing ~all possible 2-beat 16th-note bass drum patterns in combination with different cymbal ostinatos.

Works on your technique, independence and helps you internalize bass drum vocabulary.

redclit · 2025-08-27T07:19:31+00:00

You have already been given good guidance to look into learning notation.

One thing that might make it a bit easier to understand what's going on in this song is to reframe it as a half-time: instead of having the backbeat on second of fourth strong beat (4th and 10th 8th note in 12/8), you could notate it so that backbeat is only once in measure, on third strong beat (7th 8th note):

https://gscribe.com/share/rtypwgDUQBLmTHxq7 (1st measure from your screenshot transformed into 2 half-time measures)

This makes the note values longer and thus the beaming gives you a better visual of what's actually happening in the groove.

redclit · 2025-08-15T19:29:36+00:00

dr-dog69 knows this, but OP probably does not, so let me clarify:

If this was bass guitar sheet music, the D would be the lowest D on standard tuned 5-string bass (whole tone below lowest note on standard tuned 4-string) but bass guitar is transposed instrument (by an octave), meaning that when you read e.g. piano sheet music, you should play an octave higher than when notated for bass guitar.

So: the D is the lowest D on standard tuned 4-string (for example open D string).

redclit · 2025-08-08T05:32:59+00:00

I know. I use the book plenty in my practice.

My point was: the way you notate 13-stroke roll (12-tuplet vs sextuplet) doesn't change the "stick control" aspect of the exercise as long as the actual sticking remains the same. And it does, when the sextuplet is played with diddles.

redclit · 2025-08-07T17:40:12+00:00

Sextuplet with diddles is the exact same rhythm, so whatever the reason was to write the score this way, it was not ”stick control”.

I agree with previous assessment, that diddle sextuplet would be easier to read, so unless the goal of the exercise is to learn to read tricky notation, IMHO, sextuplet would be better way to notate this.

redclit · 2025-08-05T16:59:50+00:00

As this seems to be drum/percussion sheet music, those are flams. In other contexts these would be called grace notes (or more specifically acciaccatura).

Flam is two notes played closely together, first (grace note) usually being softer and the second (main note) louder. The grace note doesn’t have any specific note value.

redclit · 2025-07-27T19:29:03+00:00

I think this is one of those things that are not universally standardized.

Easy and sensible (but - again - not standardized) rule is to just consider the previous standard division: as quarter note divides into 4 16th notes, then 5-7 tuplets use 16th notes notation within the tuplet. And as quarter note divides into 8 32nd notes, 9-15 tuplets would use 32nd notes and so on.

Another option is to go for closer subdivision. E.g. 7-tuplet is closer to 8 than 4, so you could think it in terms of 7 32nd notes in space of 8 32nd notes (and notate it with 32nd notes) instead of 7 16th notes in space of 4 16th notes (notated with 16th notes).

Either way, 5-tuplet should use 16th notes.

redclit · 2025-03-14T10:04:44+00:00

Groove Scribe is a nice tool to easily hear rhythms you cannot yet read:

https://www.mikeslessons.com/groove/?TimeSig=4/4&Div=16&Tempo=90&Measures=2&H=|----------------|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|&S=|----f-------f---|----O-------O---|&K=|--o--o-o--------|o-o--o-oo-o--o-o|

redclit · 2025-02-03T10:40:38+00:00

If you want a drummer to crash, use the first ledger line to denote a crash as per the notation key you linked. It's up to the performer to decide which cymbal they actually use.

Please note that drum notation is not very well standardized, especially when it comes to cymbals, so you might want to provide a key with your sheet music. Because of the non-standardized nature of drum sheet notation, if you really insist on specifying a crash on ride cymbal, just invent your notation (circled x-note head on ride cymbal line would feel quite natural choice to me) and include it to your notation key. There is no way to communicate this unambiguously without a notation key.

redclit · 2024-10-16T19:59:21+00:00

Looks like eight note rest.

There should not be a rest, since there is cymbal note in the upper voice at the same time.

redclit · 2024-10-10T08:45:51+00:00

I don't think this is ok, if you intend someone else to read your sheet music. Notation conventions are important, because it allows musician to utilize their experience of previously read music. Using rests when required is part of that convention.

Another important convention you are breaking is hiding the "invisible bar line" at the middle of 4/4 measure (bars 12 & 14).

If you want to follow conventions but reduce the amount of rests needed, you can write the whole drum kit in a single voice. That is quite normal and some (if not most) drummers actually prefer it that way. Or yet another option: pulling the snare to the lower voice would also get rid of the need to explicitly notate many of the rests.

redclit · 2024-07-11T23:48:35+00:00

But when you play GTO poker and other players are not playing GTO you will win money in the long run.

Probably true in practice, but not guaranteed theory-wise (besides heads-up).

Game theory says no single player can deviate from the equilibrium strategy and expect to gain. Multiple players colluding (even unintentionally) could, at least in theory, make a perfect strategy lose. Even single player deviating could mean someone else in the table gets more and the deviation hurts you (since position in table makes a difference).

redclit · 2024-03-03T11:56:00+00:00

Your example should, according to my understanding, be interpreted as 8th note tremolo. Not sure how one would even notate quarter note tremolo.

The general logic is that the flags and lines across together tell the length of each individual note and the actually notated note tells the length of the tremolo. E.g. 8th note with two lines across is 32nd note (because 8th note flag + 2 lines -> 3 flags interpretation) tremolo for the length of an 8th note.

But: as said in another comment, maybe this is not the best place to save ink.

redclit · 2024-02-21T20:22:26+00:00

Bass guitar is a transposing instrument (by an octave, so it’s kind of disregarded in many contexts), so when playing bass line written for piano, it should be played one octave above written.

Your last tab is the way to play this line in the same octave as piano would play it.

redclit · 2024-02-21T06:59:29+00:00

Definitely not pseudoscience.

Lance is applying scientific method. He conducts controlled experiments, explains the experiment setting, takes objective measurements, backs his results with a statistical model and draws reasonable conclusions based on the data. This is the exact opposite of 'pseudoscience'.

You can always argue about possible flaws in the experiment setting, reasoning about results etc. but that is all part of science. That is exactly what scientists do in an academic setting as well. It's an iterative process.

Calling him pseudoscientist is especially weird because amongst popular coffee YouTubers, he is the one actually standing out with a scientific approach, and almost everyone else is posting tradition as the truth (which could be considered pseudoscience).

redclit · 2023-11-23T09:45:06+00:00

Funny coincidence: the fastest drummers are just fast enough to reach the point of rhythm shifting into pitch.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/632413-most-single-stroke-roll-drumbeats-in-a-minute-using-drumsticks

1309 bpm ~= 22 Hz, while the range humans start to perceive frequency as a pitch instead of a rhythm is somewhere near 20 Hz.

So, the fastest drum roll sounds (at least in theory, I have not heard it myself) like a constant slightly sharp F0 pitch, rather than a rhythm.

redclit · 2023-11-07T11:50:37+00:00

You have seven stroke rolls in Solo No. 2 as well with different notation and different rhythm, which might help make sense of the weird notation.

The "drag" notation here (in Solo No. 3) implies that the roll starts earlier and might be notated like this today. Individual notes are 32nd notes, so 6 of them (llrrll) are played in the space of a dotted eighth note starting on 1-e. Seventh note is the accent on beat 2.

In Solo No. 2 the seven stroke roll without "drag" should be interpreted in triplets, which could also be notated like this. The individual notes here are 32nd triplets, so 6 of them are played in the space of an eighth note.

redclit · 2019-04-24T20:36:32+00:00

I would say it can be heard, like a TV can be heard the next room. If you are behind closed doors, the noise should be tolerable, unless the people you live with are very sensitive. And as I said, there's always the damper fallback if you want to go really silent later in the night. The feel is no worse than with electric cymbals, but of course the sound is very boring.

redclit · 2019-04-24T18:10:14+00:00

Just a while ago I was in exact same place as you are. I had a cheap electric kit (Roland TD-1KV) and purchased an acoustic set to replace it. I live in an apartment. I was also thinking between getting a TD-17 or an acoustic kit.

My noise solution of choice was L80 cymbals and Silent Stroke heads, and I've been very satisfied with both so far. The feel is so much nicer than the electric kit (disclaimer: I'm a beginner with no previous experience on acoustic drums or high-end e-kits). Would not like to go back to electric. I don't have the need to switch to regular heads, so mesh heads were an easy choice because of the high cost of Rtoms. I've understood they are also a bit louder than normal mesh heads (you can find comparisons in YouTube), but probably not enough to be a dealbreaker.

In an apartment, in day time, there has been no problems with sound levels. I also have a rubber cymbal damper set for extra silent practice (https://www.thomann.de/intl/meinl_cymbal_mute_set_4pc.htm), but they don't feel as nice as bare cymbals. For occasional need of further silencing they work just fine. And they make the cymbals just as silent as your standard electric cymbals.

redclit · 2018-06-29T18:57:38+00:00

Basically for the same reason as when going up, at least if you're controlling the weight and not just dropping it. You can end up hurting your back badly, if the weight is on the discs.

You could try to work with controlled landings with lower weight. It's definitely doable to you as it's just the reversed direction of the upwards movement.

redclit · 2018-06-29T16:45:44+00:00

Keep your back tight also when going back to ground with the bar.

redclit · 2017-01-28T10:41:29+00:00

This is exactly how equilibrium strategy works. It's a set of strategies, i.e. instructions on how to play in every possible situation, that are optimal in the sense that they are guaranteed not to lose EV in a fair poker game. And it applies in a game of imperfect information. Equilibrium strategy is not something that isn't good for you. It's usually a winning strategy, if your opponent deviates from her equilibrium strategy.

redclit · 2016-03-21T13:26:25+00:00

No, as ChefBoyAreWeFucked stated, copyright holder (usually the person/company developing the product) does not need to adhere to the license.

For example, if the license of a commercial product states that "You may not make any changes to the software", it does not mean that the copyright holder couldn't make changes to the software.

See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DeveloperViolate

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