Learn to play accented strokes with the virtual drummer.
Basic online drum lessons and exercises with sheet music.
The sheet of this lesson dedicated to snare rudiments contains exercises on the snare drum to learn how to play accents.
Dynamics and accents are basic in the study of every musical instrument.
In percussion instruments the control of power and volume of the strokes helps to create a colourful and varied style,
and often a drummer's style is recognizable just by his sound and his choice of accents.
To play properly an accented stroke you have to raise the stick, starting
from an higher point to give more power; the higher the stick, the faster the stroke.
You can find more studies on the snare drum with accents in the drum rudiments lessons dedicated to
flams and
drags.
The first exercises with single strokes in the drum sheet of this lesson
alternate right hand and left hand accents of eights;
after you have managed them repeat the exercises one after the other,
by pressing the CHAIN button, the virtual drums will do the same.
Drum sheet music Accents 1
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