Joey Jordison and the Teaching Moment
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I just got back from teaching lessons for the night, and this is why I love the kids who love Joey Jordison (like myself): It’s an excellent opportunity to explain why the basics are necessary before you get to go crazy. Turns out one of Joey’s solos has this:
RL RF LF starting from snare to tom 1 to about tom 6 or 7.
So it’s a cool grouping in probably 6 or 7. Sped up it sounds like a monkey on meth (or Joey Jordison, same difference).
Guess what we spent half the lesson going over?
RL RFRF (snare over bass).
You should seen the light bulbs light up around the kid’s head after I pointed out this week’s lesson was essentially to be Joey Jordison REALLY slow and on no more than four drums (please).
