{"id":23269,"date":"2020-05-08T08:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=23269"},"modified":"2022-08-22T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:32:32","slug":"how-to-play-triples-on-a-single-pedal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-play-triples-on-a-single-pedal\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play Triples On A Single Pedal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9HchFhAY0Nw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up playing drums in the church, Rashid Williams wasn&#8217;t allowed to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-play-fast-double-bass-patterns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">double pedal<\/a>. So he had to learn how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/stan-bicknell-bass-drum-quad-solo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">play quickly using just one foot<\/a>. Watch this short video to pick up some of Rashid&#8217;s tips to playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/5-minute-bass-drum-workout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crazy fast on a single pedal<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His technique involves playing with his toes (or &#8216;heel up&#8217;) and a higher pedal tension so the pedal moves with him and achieves better rebound when he&#8217;s playing at higher speeds. Rashid describes the motion for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/triple-your-foot-speed-in-one-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">triple stroke<\/a> as similar to what you&#8217;d do with a double stroke, but getting your foot to &#8216;throw&#8217; the third hit by using the pedal&#8217;s rebound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So play a double stroke, and instead of pushing the beater into the head at the end of the second hit (&#8216;burying the beater&#8217;), let the beater bounce back naturally. Then hit it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you get the motion down, practice this foot technique with just a kick, snare, and hi-hat. You can try exercises like repeating triplets on your foot (RRR RRR or RRR RRR RRR RRRRRR) while keeping the snare going on the 2 and 4. Don&#8217;t forget your metronome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you enjoy this quick tip? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/edge\">Check out Rashid&#8217;s other lessons on Drumeo!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Looking for other lessons on improving your foot speed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/triple-your-foot-speed-in-one-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Triple Your Foot Speed In One Day<\/a> (Russ Miller)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/beginner-bass-drum-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beginner&#8217;s Bass Drum Boot Camp<\/a> (Dave Atkinson)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/single-bass-drum-speed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How To Build A Better, Stronger, Faster Single Kick<\/a> (Stan Bicknell)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this quick video, Rashid Williams shows you how to get a single pedal to sound like a double pedal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":23459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4028,4018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foot-technique","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23269","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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23269"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32036,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23269\/revisions\/32036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}