{"id":8430,"date":"2018-02-23T08:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=8430"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T23:21:39","slug":"hi-hat-fanning-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/hi-hat-fanning-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Fan Your Hi-Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mT0dNaynrUU\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hi-hat fanning is a drum trick made famous by legendary drummers such as Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Steve Smith, and Jojo Mayer. It produces a unique sound and is a definite crowd-pleaser with its visual flare.<\/p>\n<p>Reuben Spyker is here today to provide a thorough, step-by-step guide on how to get comfortable with hi-hat fanning and start working up to those top speeds. He&#8217;ll start with the basic stick grip, the general arms movements, how to apply basic rudiments, and other small variations for some drum fill ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: be careful. It&#8217;s pretty easy to whack your hand on your hats while practicing this trick. We are not responsible for any injuries or potential finger amputations.<\/p>\n<p>Reuben is Drumeo&#8217;s social media manager. He\u2019s such a talented drummer and a ton of fun to have on the team here.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re digging this lesson, be sure to check out his Instagram page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reubenspyker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi-hat fanning is a drum trick that produces a unique sound and is a definite crowd-pleaser with its visual flare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4027,4018],"tags":[13,9,152],"class_list":["post-8430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hand-technique","category-technique","tag-drum-lessons-2","tag-drumeo","tag-free-drum-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8430"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44907,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions\/44907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}