Wondered what you guys thought about your hi hat foot and its development?
Growing up playing in Jazz band, I felt my left foot was pretty solid as far as the 2 and 4 clicks. Then I somewhat started keeping straight 4 on the hats, depending on the tune. In the last couple years, I started paying more attention to the subtle nuances (like different hat techniques and other items such as ghost notes etc). I haven't really put the time into it that I should have, but I find there is a really neat sound when playing 16ths with your hand on the hat and also quarters with your foot. If you check out the vid below, you will see what I mean right in the beginning of this vid. I find its not that easy to do either when you got your bass drum kicks in there too. What I want to develop and really dig how the time is defined, is at about 1:08 - hyper-speed left foot
Ok, so I can do that hyper-speed left foot, but adding the kick, just blows that independence out of the water. Any suggestions, or help to develop this? Again, its the independence of keeping that steady go on the left and mixing it up with your kick - not always easy to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_DmXMfen9s
Growing up playing in Jazz band, I felt my left foot was pretty solid as far as the 2 and 4 clicks. Then I somewhat started keeping straight 4 on the hats, depending on the tune. In the last couple years, I started paying more attention to the subtle nuances (like different hat techniques and other items such as ghost notes etc). I haven't really put the time into it that I should have, but I find there is a really neat sound when playing 16ths with your hand on the hat and also quarters with your foot. If you check out the vid below, you will see what I mean right in the beginning of this vid. I find its not that easy to do either when you got your bass drum kicks in there too. What I want to develop and really dig how the time is defined, is at about 1:08 - hyper-speed left foot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_DmXMfen9s
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