I love the feeling when playing music where it feels almost magical. One of my students felt this recently after we had been working on a swing ride cymbal pattern and I asked him to try to count out loud while playing the ride. Before he began counting, he was having some trouble keeping the pattern consistent. After getting used to counting (not too long), his ride cymbal pattern not only fell into sync rhythmically, but the sound changed. It was like “magic” (his words).
Counting out loud made all the difference. This is something we can all learn how to do, and then replicate whenever we want. We can indeed make magic while playing the drums and bring that to the music at hand!
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