The impact of 4 single strokes | Part 3 | Dynamics & Subdivisions | Lesson

Okay, so the next topic would be dynamics. This time it's right. So with four single strokes it's very hard to have dynamics in the four single strokes. Well, it's a lot of four single strokes words in this lesson. Because you only have four strokes to do dynamics. Or if you use the displacement where you have more four single stroke patterns in one bar then you can spread the dynamic range. So maybe I'll just show you the bar that I just used where you have this 3 8th movement. So you have three four single stroke patterns in one bar. It was this one. It's like one, sorry, two, three, four. And then you can play with dynamics because dynamics is a very important part of your playing. And maybe you can do a crescendo in the whole bar. It's like one, two, three, four. Or when you want to use only one of the four single stroke patterns try to do a very small crescendo. And that sounds pretty nice when you do it only on the snare. Because it's like the easiest way to use the dynamics in this particular pattern. So you have four strokes. So start soft and become louder in the end. It's like one, two, three, four. And even for faster tempos it could be really cool. So dynamics can be a very important part of your playing in general. Keep that in mind. And the last topic I want to talk about is subdivisions which is also a very important part. You'll see it's only very important parts in this lesson. Subdivision means you take the four single strokes and play it in, for example, 16th strokes or 16th notes, not 16th strokes. That's what I did until now. You can also do 8th notes, 16th notes, triplets, triplets, what else? Or 32nd notes. These are like the four most common subdivisions. And just pick one pattern and just play around. Try different subdivisions and see how it sounds like. Okay, I think it was pattern two which is snare, high tom, low tom and snare again. Let me take this pattern and I start with quarter notes, then I go to eighth notes, sixteenth notes, triplets and 32nd notes. All right, let me do it slow. One, two, three. That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed this lesson. Leave us a like with the thumbs up, ring the notification with the bell and subscribe to our channel. Find the sheet music of this lesson attached down below in the video description. And there's one little thing that I want to show you what you can do with four single strokes in a groove. And the groove is out of the song You Are Loved of Israel Houten and it's played by Calvin Rogers. And he uses the four single strokes in a very subtle way in the second bar of this two bar phrase groove. And yeah, I'll see you in the next video. Two, three.