Secrets of the Hand : Soloing Strategies for Hand Drummers

Who this book is for and how it works 4(2) The charts and the count 6(3) PART 1: The five basic hand-pattern strategies 9(43) Lead with your strong hand 10(6) Use ghost notes sparingly 16(6) Alternate hands as much as possible 22(8) Play repeating figures the same way every time 30(12) Camouflage with alternating paris 42(10) PART 2: Five strategies for creating the illusion of speed 52(39) Create a ripple effect with two sixteenth notes or an eighth-note triplet 53(9) Get dense and intense with four-stroke figures 62(6) Lead with your strong hand on faster strokes 68(6) Leave space around a flam 74(5) Use the compression trick to create complex cross-rhythms the easy way 79(12) Glossary 91(1) Also available from Dancing Hands Music 92