Voda La Void
quantumeffect
Voda La Void
quantumeffect
Just bumped an old thread of mine ... I studied with Joe for many years.
Then maybe you can tell me what in the world he is doing with his hi-hat footing? I'm watching and that leg is not going up and down with the hi hat like a "normal" drum technique, ha ha...I can't tell from the video what he's doing with his footing. Very curious...
The soloing with his hands is over an ostinato where the bass drum lands on one and the hi hat plays 2 & 4.
So when counting in 5/4 you can establish beat 1 by listening to the bass drum. Once you get the feel for that you can hear the hats landing on 2 & 4 with a rest on beat 5.
No, no, I meant specifically how he was opening and closing the hi-hat out of sync with his leg going up and down. I actually watched it again here at home on my bigger monitor and I can see it's when he's playing heel down, the rest of his leg is rhythmically bouncing up and down seemingly independent of his hi-hat action. Pretty cool. I've just never seen anyone do that.
Nice demo on the beat breakdown, too. Thank you. I've actually been working on 5/4 stuff in my practice rotation lately, so I will give this one a go.
Sorry ... I misunderstood what you were asking. I didn't set the camera up to really show my leg but it is essentially doing the same thing, just not so exaggerated, and it's really just a slight variation on the old school rocking technique. That is the technique I learned as a child so I really don't think about it very much.
If you were rocking your foot back and forth in 4/4 using a heel-toe-heel-toe pattern with your heel tapping on 1 and 3 and your toes on 2 and 4 your leg will look like a piston going up and down between the beats. Joe adds an extra heel tap on beat 5 in 5/4. So, the result is the knee coming up on the "& of 2", the "& of 4" and the "& of 5" ... so if you listen for the bass drum to establish 1 you will see the knee come up once ("& of 2") and then twice in rapid succession ("& of 4", "& of 5"). Joe is really bouncing his heel so the knee comes up high.