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trance999

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hi guys!

how do u actually play a dotted note? the dot after a note means that the timing of the note is times 1.5 but how do u do tt on drums? play with a bounce?

thanks guys! :lol:
 
best if u get someone to show u dude.

dotted quater for example. is worth 3 8th notes. u play the first 8th note and rest for the other 2.
 
Hi Bro Kari

An example here:

Let's say you see a Dotted Note (Tie Note) on the 1 of 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ (in a bar)...

you play and hit 1...then let then rest & I guess there will be a note on the (2+ position) where you have to play it.

With a tie note - you will see no Rest-Note usually (at times maybe there will be too where there is syncopation after that) on the score (it's like that one)...actually when you don't use a dotted note (you will see the rest-note there like normal notes and rest notes)...I really do not know how this Dotted-Note is as useful to us drummers as other Musician eg a Painist or Bassists etc....but yes as a Drummer, we are also Musician and thus - we must know it - we do see this in a drum score...just like those Hockey-Sticks things also...Kekekeke


What I do is let's say I see a dotted note on 1 (I count 3 more forward) it becomes +, 2 + (then I tell myself - play at the 2+ for the next note).....

????? - I wonder if I'm correct here (anyway my explaination is a layman kind one) - I hope my counting is correct here - let's hear what other bros have to say.

ADmended liao: In case miscomception here --- thks Weckl :lol:
 
paiseh..paiseh har bro.....weckl must be right. Tie-Note has nothing to do with a Dotted Note - they are 2 different thing lah...kari..kekeke :lol:

Weckl: the link you provide have got some Drums Transcribe for some nice sings I like eg EnterSandman (Metallica)...thks buddy
 
yah their 2 diff things tied and dotted. check out some thoery bks, like 1st to 2nd grade, they have excercises tht u can do so ur clear abt the values.

for abit more advanced readers or drummers, i gd excercise is too tke any reading bk like syncopation of modern reading in 4/4. tht the syncopation reading excercises and play all 8th on the snare and all dotted tied or quater note with the bass drum and ride or crash. u can play dotted on the snare as well.
this helps when ur reading charts, cause most charts are git charts and when there's a tied the normally hold the note. a crash sounds better it elongates the sound so to speak.
 
thanks guys for the help
but i still dont get it!

an eighth note on the a count of the 1 e & a?

so playing of the basic beat of bass on 1st count and snare on 3rd count,
my snare will not be played in time with 3rd note?

for example:

1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a
hihat on the 1 2 3 4
bass on 1
snare on the a of 3rd count?

am i right?
correct me pls!! :cry:
 
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