| Open, closed, open is a technique of playing snare drum rudiments, especially used during auditions. Open, closed, open technique consists of beginning the rudiment very slow and controlled, speeding up evenly until at the maximum speed for the drummer, then slowing back down after maintaining that speed. Optimally, the drummer should end on the opposite hand as started, in case of alternating rudiments such as paradiddles. Also, the speed ended at should be approximately the same speed as the drummer began. About the follwing video Gradually open-close-open the doublestroke roll, while keeping a constant (!!!) time with your feet (in this example e.g. a basic samba pattern). Don´t worry about 16th or triplets and such, just try to o-c-o as gradually as you can while keeping the feet time as constant as you can. This creates all kinds of fancy odd time-subdivisions and nice frictions between hands and bassdrum. Very hard to write down note by note. In this example I play RRLL this way: right tom,left tom, snare, snare. Very simple, but sounds good and looks cool. Makes nice and easy fills once a while. Do this with any rudiment and over different feet patterns. Start to practise with the singlestroke roll RLRL, over constant quarternotes on the bassdrum, until you get a feeling for the two different timelines (Hands vs. Feet). Then it easy to do it with all other rudiments and stickings. |
Time independance (doublestroke) Open, closed, open (single paradiddle) |
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