https://www.drumeo.com/beat/odd-time-grooves/ The Drumeo Beat delivers drumming videos, tips, articles, news features, and interviews with your favorite drummers. Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.drumeo.com/beat/odd-time-grooves/#comment-6769 Mon, 16 May 2016 22:45:00 +0000 http://www.drumeo.com/blog/?p=3895#comment-6769 Hello Drumeo!
You folks are awesome and generous with “free” lessons and blogs. Thank you.
My only issue is that your notation on sheet music is different than the accepted, known standard: remember the days when your snare was on the staff line, instead of the second space? Well, the ride cymbal is normally notated on space above top staff line, the hi hat ON the first staff line, etc. The notation as written would indicate a crash cymbal, not a ride.
Also, your bass drum notes would standardly be as follows: Right foot in the fourth space, Left foot on the fifth line (not below.)
This is very confusing for many folks working with books, in drum magazine tutorials, etc.
I’m honestly not trying to harp on this, but Drumeo is such a GREAT resource to the community, and very popular, so it seems odd your notation is different than accepted standard. Imagine if a melody instrument player ran across a “different” notation for a song….they would play all wrong notes! Perhaps it would make for a fascinating experiment, but otherwise, it would be nonsensical.
Thank you again for all that you do. 🙂

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