Echoing The Snare And Other Techniques Applied

By Nate Brown Drum Beat Lessons, Drum Lessons, Level 3 Drum Lessons, Monday Drum Lessons, Techniques & Concepts

Description

This lesson shares the technique of echoing the snare, which is playing a ghost stroke after the snare drum stroke to create an echo effect. The beats that follow apply techniques taught in previous lessons in order to build the beat.

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Author

Nate Brown

Publisher of OnlineDrummer.com, Alfred Publishing author, Ddrum artist, and veteran Drum! Magazine contributor, Nate earned his Bachelor of Arts in Education at John Carroll University and Master of Arts in Education at the University of Findlay.

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Echoing The Snare And Other Techniques Applied