STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Dustin Rasmussen
Ladies and gentlemen, Dustin Rasmussen!
Helpful Apps for Drummers
Here is a list of apps that will help you with your drumming journey.
Drum-less Practice Tracks
A good way to work on your musicality is to play and record yourself playing along to music, with and without a click.]Here are some places where you can find tracks with no drums that you can play along to.
Hybrid Songo
The Cuban songo is an interesting syncopated rhythm that can sound really funky and can really groove. Here is a variation done by moving the right hand quarter notes around the drumset.
Shuffles with Quarter Note Triplets
Let’s take a basic shuffle beat and throw in quarter note triplets with the different limbs while playing the shuffle.
Shuffle Modulation
We are going to take a couple of triplet shuffle rhythms and modulate them to 8th notes. This can me make the time feel elastic when done right.