Bonus Exercise 1

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RSL Awards Lesson time: (1min 30sec)

Challenge yourself with a tempo increase in this bonus exercise. Focus on accurate bass drum phrasing and smooth transitions between beats.

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# Music Lesson: Adjusting Tempos

Okay. So with these exercises, there are slightly different tempos. We need to adjust from **85 beats per minute to 90**.

It's a really small difference, but it will affect the way it feels to play these. Just me personally. You can take this recommendation if you want; you could do different things.

## Playing Technique

- I'll choose to play all the hi-hats with the **right hand**.
- The **bass drums**, of course, always with the **right foot**. We know that.
- If there are three snares in a row, I'm going to alternate: **right, left, right**.

This is what I would do if it was a drum fill in a piece.

## Let's Try It

So, let's try the first exercise:

**1, 2, 3, 4.**

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