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Now I am going to show you the Ride Cymbal pattern, which is the most important thing
in the swing. The time keeping is all on the Ride Cymbal It's counted in triplets, so you
have 1
and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a . 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and
a. Trying to feel how it kind of swings to the beats, the beats one and three and the
stronger beat is beat 2 and 4 those are the accented one here. See if you were playing
it straight it would be, when you swing it, you get.
So set your metronome to a very slow tempo, practice that, increase the speed, work on
those volumes, work on accenting, the 2 and 4, then you get your Ride Cymbal swing pattern
going and soon enough you will be able to swing.