EMC Background Cadences - Learn the Beats

Good morning, today I'm going to break down the

cadences

that I wrote and that I use in most of my videos, including this part here, the one that's happening right now and the one that will play, so there are two different

cadences

that I use. all my videos, the one that just played in the intro and also the one that is playing right now using the backing track, so we'll go in chronological order and do the intro first, which is why this one is titled boss hype and the reason why It's called that because I wrote this one for Deptford High School in 2011.

I think something like that and this was written because the band director asked me to write a really exciting and cool cadenza that the drum line will play to lead into the soccer team on the field. field and make the crowd go crazy and irritated and over the top, and yes, that's why it's called a boss fight, because the football team was really bad, so the least we could do is give everyone a false sense of height to start the game and then that slowly went away as the team started losing, but the cadence was pretty good and this was all written on the fly a day before a football game came up with the drum line and We analyzed it in a couple of hours and this is what came out. and I was able to give credit to the students, mainly my own, and then this also changed a little bit more because we did it again at the University of Delaware when I was a graduate assistant there and we beefed it up a little bit, because those guys are all like a group of drum types, so I made it a little harder for them, so basically this cadence has evolved over the years into what eventually became the track for my YouTube videos.

Okay, let's talk about rhythms. Now we're going to start with the state I'm a part of, so the first thing is probably the hardest because you have a lot of solo hoop shots, so remember the core scenarios that you have to make sure you hit all those shots left handed. pings like that first rock jinx then we get some stick clicks as the bass drum plays its beat followed by the a section of this cadence which is pretty standard and not too difficult. There's actually a split part in this and this is the first part of the guy, so put those parts together in the third measure, it'll sound like this, right, you've got those split

beats

, they should sound really good and exciting, now we have more clicks on the hoop here, followed by a few more pings, make sure you get those on the left hand.

So the B section is really easy for the rhythm. I'm not even going to touch it because it's so simple and then we get to the end and there's even more rim shots, so make sure it's right, get those nice left hand pings and accurate, okay, so the tender part too It's pretty easy, so I'm using a six pack. I have two GOx. This can be done with just a normal five-pack word physics package. You can do it either way, it doesn't matter, so the section is like this and in section B there's a little bit of Spock shooting.

If you have two Spocks, you will do the left throws on the low one and the right throws on the high Spock, but if you have five drums, you can do both. shots just on the high point or to make it a little fancier you can also do the shots left hand on the drum so you got this test it sounds a little better if those shots are in different keys so if you just have one place, you can do it this way, but if you have both, do it this way and a fun fact about this section B, this is something that I actually pulled directly from some type similar to the part of the box, make sure you get all the pings that are in the Spock.

The drums are a little easier when you play Match Grip, but still be precise with the ping hits. Well, then the bass drum part, it just keeps everything together, you start with a little bass drum unison solo, very easy. sixteenth note eighth note rhythm now we come to this middle section as a bass drum function again now in the sheet music that I provided and also when I play it in my videos it is written for six bass drums this is the arrangement I made for a university in Delaware and they had six bass drums , but you can also do it with three, four or five kick drums if I do it with two, but that might be a bit as honest as what I did when I first wrote this for Deptford High School.

I only took four. of the bars in the legato exercise and just place it there, so that's what you can do if you have a split legato pattern like the eighth note, the two, three, and four. I do it with four because it sounds better. The patterns that I use if you have six kicks, I do one, two, three, one, two, three, four, five, six, five, four, six, five, four, three, two and then I repeat those four, five kicks, what I have done and what I am going to do in the next presentation. one second because there are only five kick drums on the Commandant so those are the drums I use check I do one two one two one two three four five four five four five four three two then I repeat for the kick drums you can do 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 4 3 2 4 3 2 2 4 3 and 4 3 drums you can do 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 and if you are unlucky enough to have to do it the bass drummers and your kick line, whoever is better at the high

beats

, just have them do the upbeats and have the other person do the low beats, because I'll get a little silly.

I think I did it once there was a parade and we missed a couple of stronger ones so there are 1 2 1 2 1 2 where you can write something better than just the legato exercise it doesn't matter just have something quick and keep it interesting or the bass drummers to do in these four bars, ok, so we get to Section B and there's another split part here for 6 kick drums, which is what I wrote, the music that each of them starts with, that's each bar and in the bars with odd numbers I do this check 1 1 2 3 those are sixteenth notes only two in the even bars I do 4 4 5 6 if you have 5 bass drums do one two three and I'm in even bars I do three three four five if you have four bass drums so just do one one two two and on the even bars three three four four you have three bass drums 1 1 2 2 & 2 2 3 3 you have two bass drums 1 1 1 1 and then 2 2 2 2 so I'm not going to demonstrate the simple part because well, it's not simple and it's also really very easy.

I make sure I have written down all the techniques on the sheet music so close that you can read quarter notes and eighth notes, you will be able to decipher them. Okay, now we're going to move on to the other cadence that I use in the

background

of these videos, so this one is titled soft white boys, so there's a lot of history behind this cadence, the reason why it's called white boy, we'll go back to when I started teaching. high school band in 2008 I taught at Pitman High School. I was the front set tech and I taught with my friend John, who was the drum tech, and that was actually a really fun season of teaching that year.

It was a really good and fun group of kids. staff to work with, so we'll treasure that memory forever, but the main thing I took away from this and what I still do is how I came up with white kids, so in each of these competitions, John and I You hear this cadence that another school was playing and you know from a very far distance you can't hear anything except the kick drum parts, well that was the part we were listening to and it was really dumb and stupid and that's the kick drum part. which I use on Cadence in the

background

and the joke we had was that that was the whitest sounding cadence anyone has ever played, which is a little racist but it's funnier than racist.

I say it's 60% funny and 40% racist, so that makes it good. by the way the name of the school that came up, I think it was Toms River North High School, I could be wrong, I think I have a video saved somewhere and a certain clip here if there is one so I have to give credit to That school. for writing that cadenza and I stole the bass drum part, so anyway, I went back to Deptford 2011, the same year I wrote the Fausto hypercadenza, I decided to also write another cadenza as a stand rhythm, you know, to excite the crowd again.

I was excited that his team was losing so on the fly again I wrote this and yeah the first thing I thought was what kind of beat can I write and of course the first thing that came to mind was what that really was . white guy sound cadence that played when I spoke to Pitman. I wrote the bass drum part, taught it to those guys first and then made up a snare and tenor part to go with it and the funny thing is I had to tell these students that it's okay. this cadence is called soft white guys and two thirds of this drum line were black that's not racist that's a fact but that made it very funny here I guess it's a little racist but anyway the whitest cadence ever was quite a success among the entire football public, so I also took this cadence back to when I was teaching at the University of Delaware and we improved it a little so that it is the final product and what is heard in the background, well, let's analyze the part of the ladder for this, so it's actually a little difficult, it actually wasn't that difficult when I originally wrote it for high school, but then when I stumbled through the University of Delaware, I made it a lot harder than it originally was , so this is what it is. you have money halved on the edge to back up the bus sticks on the end and then you have this offset flame cock.

I think it has some name, I don't remember what it is, but it's basically for you to touch the first end with your right hand and then rest Enda in your left hand, so together you became so slow, it's just above, phlegm, scream, blow, but more or less relax and play just a triple beep with both hands and if you are sterile, you don't have the skills to play that. You could probably do this now it sounds exactly the same, but it won't be as fun to play, then you have a downbeat that lands with a buzz at the end of two, then three stick hits on three ends and then a normal take on four so all this phrase I'm going to play it slowly for you it should sound like this at that tempo it sounds like this those four bars keep happening over and over again until you get to the end the last repetitions that's it I'm going to go to triplets with some accents followed by four and A one are flexible plans and again, if your cell line doesn't have the skills for that, you can do triplets, sounds exactly the same but not as fun, okay, the tenor?

The part is ridiculously easy, so this is what I call the Elevator Jam because when I was on the Giants drum line we were going to have to take the elevator up and down in the stadium and be standing there in the elevator , everyone crammed in and I had my drums up and then I would just start playing this rhythm with my fingers and now I'm a legend there because of that, so this part I wrote is even easier than that, you're just clicking on the edge eighth note on drum three. and then just going up the drums here, then we get to the little timpani style drum fill, which is shots on drums one and two, so what can you do to spice this up a little bit?

Instead of just tapping direct clicks on all three. Edge of the drum, you can do shots on the drum that you have on two and four, so it's going to go like this. The last measure is a triplet. Superstock, super easy, so the kick and cymbal parts are ridiculously easy. I'm not even going to break them. If you can read 8th notes and quarter notes you can play the bass drum or the single part which I made sure to write down and all the techniques on the single part as well so there is no confusion and again this is possible with any amount of bass. drums except maybe one that might be weird trying to do this with just a kick drum but on the recording you hear this for six and that makes 6 6 4 4 2 2 to 5 5 3 3 1 1 1 1 I think The way it could be a little better is if you just split the notes up so 6 5 4 3 2 2 2 5 4 3 2 1 and if you have 5 kick drums you can do 5 4 3 2 1 5 4 3 2 for the kick drums, just make that the bass board covers parts 5 and 4 for that, so 4 4 3 2 1 and with 3 kick drums you can go up on the quarter note check, so 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 In fact, that's my favorite variation of this, with 3 bass drums because it's very, very cheesy and very, very white, and that's what we're going for.

Really, very white, not racist if necessary. I guess I've never done it with 2. you just have to 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 and that fourth measure each will be 1 1 2 2 3 3 in unison because the end is in unison and the last part will be same but with triplets so 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 Judas in unison thanks for watching if you like this video make sure you hug that subscribe button and bring that Liberty Bell and put on a custom t-shirt like this one. I'll leave you that link. in the description and have a good