{"id":27,"date":"2008-04-24T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/drumming-and-the-bass-pedal\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T22:36:08","slug":"drumming-and-the-bass-pedal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/drumming-and-the-bass-pedal\/","title":{"rendered":"Drumming and the Bass Pedal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m slowly learning to play the drums. Right now I&#8217;m working on practicing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syncopation\">syncopation<\/a>, which is basically a technique of either playing a beat where there isn&#8217;t otherwise one, or not playing a beat where one should be. It seems to be what is used to mix up a beat somewhat so that it&#8217;s not so boring.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit difficult to teach my feet to hit a beat that&#8217;s not there, so I was looking up some resources for bass pedal\/foot positioning, to give myself the best chance possible. There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drums-and-drum-sets.com\/bass-pedal-technique.php\">good explanation and pictures<\/a> on this generic-sounding domain. I believe that having the heel up is the way to go; I&#8217;ve seen it mentioned in a lot of places, and I can feel the difference.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go and attempt to adjust the spring. I think it&#8217;s too loose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m slowly learning to play the drums. Right now I&#8217;m working on practicing syncopation, which is basically a technique of either playing a beat where there isn&#8217;t otherwise one, or not playing a beat where one should be. It seems to be what is used to mix up a beat somewhat so that it&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/drumming-and-the-bass-pedal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drumming and the Bass Pedal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,576,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}