Chords for Zildjian Lessons: Will Kennedy - Funky Hats

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Hello, it's Will Kennedy from the [N] Yellow Jackets.
Happy to be here.
Welcome to the internet.
_ We are talking about some funk words today.
I spoke a little bit about this in times past, but there are some really cool things you
can do with a hi-hat that kind of add to your ability to speak the language of funk.
And when you can do that, you are coming from a place that's a little bit more authentic
and you are perhaps perceived as being a type of musician that has a little bit more feel
or depth to his playing.
And that's a good thing.
So I welcome you to try some of these ideas and concepts and continue to listen to all
kinds of music to expand your vocabulary because music and being a musician is about
speaking the language of music.
So come on aboard.
So we have a typical funk groove here that's just two and four on the snare drum, one and
three on the kick drum, and we're going to talk about some varieties of funk words with
the hi-hat.
Okay?
So just the basic groove right now.
One, two, three.
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_ _ [N] _ So that's funk groove 101.
And if you can do that for a long period of time consistently, there's something about that.
There's something, you could call it hypnotic, you could call it mesmerizing.
It's challenging overall because in this day and age where there's so many people that
can do all these chops and amazing flipping and somersaults over the drum kit, it's cool
to just be able to break it down sometimes and just go boom, kak for a long period of time.
That's a way of speaking in the funk language.
So to just kind of hip it up just a little bit, there's of course some accents you can
do with the hi-hat and that's strongly accenting the eighth notes.
Right?
One, two, three.
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_ Right?
That's kind of a language in itself and it kind of adds a different feel, a different
pulse over the top.
You'll hear people program drum machines in that way.
You'll hear people, hear drummers play it in that fashion to kind of add a different effect.
So here's another one.
An accent on one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one. _ _ _
[B] I'm sorry.
I said one, two, three, four, but I was actually counting the eighth notes.
So it was one and two and one and two and.
So I'm playing eighth notes, but I'm doing an accent on the prime beats one, two, three,
four.
Sorry for misquoting before.
Don't, don't watch that part.
One, two, three. _
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_ Woo!
Getting funk in here, man. _ _
So still speaking the language of funk, I'm just going to do, _ basically going to leave
you with some feels and concepts and syncopation on the hi-hat.
Right?
Here we [Db] go.
One, two, three, four. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Try it.
You'll love it.
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