Guide to Playing Your Hi-Hat - JDH Learn Jazz Drums #2

This free drum lesson from Chris Smith (Jazz Drum Hang) shows you how to play your hi-hat as a jazz drummer. The video shows you both heel up and heel down techniques, how to tilt your bottom hi-hat cymbal, how to splash your hi-hats with your foot, and also the important technique of using your hi-hats slightly open as another ride cymbal sound. These easy to understand concepts will quickly improve your drumming!

00:00 Intro
01:00 Short Examples of Heel Down/Heel Up
01:21 More About Heel Down Technique
02:18 More About Heel Up Technique
03:07 Tilt Your Bottom Cymbal
03:30 Ride on Your Hi-Hats
04:41 How to Splash Hi-Hats on Beat 4
05:35 About Jazz Drum Hang

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In this video Chris is playing:
Noble and Cooley Drums
8x12 CD Maple
14x14 CD Maple
14x18 Horizon
6x14 SS Tulip Snare
Vic Firth MJ3 Sticks
Paiste Cymbals

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