How Do You Play The General Ride Cymbal Pattern In Jazz Drums?
“Today we are going to be learning how to play a basic jazz drumbeat. So, now that we are playing confidently on two and four with the high hat, with our foot. Now it’s time to start working on the general ride pattern in jazz music. Now if you think, with you just singing jazz to yourself you are like (da da da da, da da da, da da da) well that’s the pattern, but we’re not going to jump right into that. We’re going to, instead of playing it swing, we’re going to play the pattern straight on the ride cymbal, just so you know how to count it. So, if you take a look here are some quarter notes. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. Now what we’re going to do is on beats two and four, we’re going to play two eighth notes ok. So it’s going to sound one, two and three four and one, two and three, four and one, two and three, four and one, two and three, four and one. So that’s kind of a weird pattern for us because we are used to just playing either quarter notes or we’re used to pl
