Badass 9 Note Lick - Drum Central

What's happening guys? Welcome back into the Drum Central YouTube channel. It is a Friday and that means it's time for another lick of the week. Now we're going to kick things off. 16 no triplets. Absolute thunder. So grab the pdf below. This could become all clear. So this one is super fun. We can take it a couple of directions and I want to kind of give you a little glimpse into how my mind works with these kind of ideas. We're going to take an inverted six stroke roll and we're going to tag on a kick right left. That's all we're going to do. We're going to play it twice. Two nines gives us 18 and then one inverted six stroke roll. The magic happens when you orchestrate it differently. When you try it on the toms in a more aggressive setting like I did in the intro or maybe a softer setting up on the hi-hats. So let's try it without any metronome and without any orchestration just to get the inverted six stroke roll. Now a six stroke roll is six notes long. Funnily enough. Starts with a single right hand. Right followed by two left. Left left. Right right and then a left. So that's the standard one. You've heard it millions of times on the drum kit. It sounds like this. If you ever listen to any Motown that's the intro fill which is the best fill in the world ever. Now we're going to invert it. Now it's six notes long so actually has six inversions. I'm going to choose number four and that's going to be where we place the two accents in the middle. So instead of having them on the outside we're going to have them in the middle. We start with two right hands. Right right then left right followed by left left. So there's our inversion. Then we're going to put a kick then a right then a left. Kick right left accented. That is the lick. Do that twice followed by the same six stroke roll inversion and you get this. Now let's try it nice and slow. 60 beats a minute and I'll leave the groove out. So I'll leave a bar, click and I'll play the lick. Here we go. Okay there's some space to go. You have more toms. You have less toms. You've got some stackers. This might sound really cool on some really small stackers a la Yos Nicol or Thomas Lang. Let's try a little bit faster. As it gets faster our orchestration options are limited but it does kind of lend itself to slightly faster playing. Let's try 85 see what it sounds like. Now in the intro I played at 110 which we're going to do but I played a half-time groove at the start of it and I think it sounds really cool and then it's kind of a half-time beat down thing. Kind of my fake attempt at djent. So when we're doing that stellar music then we're going to play a little more aggressively. So let me try that at 110. Now that is the kind of standard when you play a lick you play it snare and toms but I always like to try and think slightly outside the box so why don't we try and play it all on the hi-hat and replace the kick drum for a stepped left foot. Now at a slow speed of well we'll go to 85 again that sounds like this. So now you wouldn't play that in a super aggressive metal tune but maybe you can use that in I don't know like a breakdown of a song. You can maybe use it in a lighter groove. You could come off the ride cymbal or something like that. With any of these licks that I've shown you over the past three years, take them, try different sound sources, sides of drums, stackers and all that sort of stuff and see if you can come up with something really creative. So I hope you guys dug that lesson. Please explore it more and hit subscribe and I'll catch you next time.