Stage 4The Cymbals
The three pads beyond the core three: ride, crash and open hat. The same time on a different cymbal, and the first hand travel that has a musical reason rather than a rhythmic one.
The ridea second timekeeper
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Ride on all four beats with a kick on 1 and 3 — the hat lesson, moved to a new pad.
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The rock beat with the ride keeping the 8ths instead of the hi-hat.
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Two bars on the closed hat, two on the ride — the hand moves on the bar line.
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The crashthe note that opens a phrase
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The rock beat with a crash on every down-beat — three pads at once, further apart than ever.
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The same groove with a crash only on bars 1 and 3 — the two-bar phrase, made audible.
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Crash on the down-beat, ride from the "and" — the hand travels inside a single beat.
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Open and closedthe hat that hands the bar over
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Closed hats through the bar with the last 8th opened up — the most-played hi-hat move there is.
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The open hat on the last 8th landing on a crash — one gesture in two halves.
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Two bars of hats with the open lead-in, two of ride opened by a crash — every pad the app guarantees.
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Checkpointa bar of each — switching between patterns is what makes them stick
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One bar each: the ride groove, a crash on 1, the open-hat lead-in, and a crash into the ride.
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