Ghost notes

[GunnerUK]

I love ghost notes, but I just can't seem to do them.

Any tips how to get that Keith Carlock or Stanton Moore level of ghosties going on? They seem to just do it automatically without even thinking

[Olimpass]

Burnard Purdie - Ghostnotes

[ratmycue]

Pratice singles and doubles till the cow's come home. If the cow's don't end up coming home, well keep practising.

[pastor_bob]

Pratice singles and doubles till the cow's come home. If the cow's don't end up coming home, well keep practising.

So funny, and yet so true. It's amazing what consistent practice can do, especially when you're talking about doubles.

[PerryGoRound]

Practicing rudiments will help get you there as well.

Work them between your hats and snare.

Try them very quietly working accents in for up and down beats.

[drummer]

Practice rudiments like the others said but particularly practice dynamics. There are books with accent studies. You can even do this on a pad with singles. Make your lows extremely low and your highs high. It's all about stick control.

[GunnerUK]

Cheers guys, better go practice some rudiments then......

[Jonzo]

Alot of the ghost notes I play are simultaneous with a hat stroke and/or bass stroke. You can you them this way with pretty much any groove.

The most common way I hear is shuffling ghost notes.

[ratmycue]

Alternate Flam taps, alternating drags, flamadiddles etc, all good stuff for more intricate work and building dynamics [Ghost notes/ groove building etc]. Remember "Alternate" the lead hand with theses rudiments.

[dropdtune]

Burnard Purdie - Ghostnotes

I like Bernard, great groove. Unrelated - but I like his snare sound, it really helsp the hearing of his ghosts. Do you think its gotten by looser snares, and a reso tuned low, or reso tuned high, or... ? I have been trying to achieve that on my snare but cannot quite get there.

[GunnerUK]

I like Bernard, great groove. Unrelated - but I like his snare sound, it really helsp the hearing of his ghosts. Do you think its gotten by looser snares, and a reso tuned low, or reso tuned high, or... ? I have been trying to achieve that on my snare but cannot quite get there.

I love how at 2:18 he's playing the ghost notes with his finger while hitting the toms. Legend.

[Kazaamski]

Doing rimclicks, and tapping with your fingers, is harder than it looks.

[dt344]

Pratice singles and doubles till the cow's come home.

Absolutely, but one important thing I've found is if you want to develop ghost notes, in addition to the independence of ghost notes lining up with bass and hi-hat without flamming is practicing single and double rudiments as quietly as possible.

Try doing paradiddles, or even better page one of stick control, at a fast tempo but so quietly you can barely hear it. It's surprising how unbelievably hard that is, because you lose a lot of the response of the head so you need to develop fine motor control to keep them in time and distinct. It's a great exercise for ghost notes.

[wolvie56]

Practice your finger control till the cows come home. And when they do come home practice some more. It's harder than it looks. A tight snare helps a lot for quick rebound action.

[ratmycue]

This Dude, Todd somoneorother aint bad

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOtn-OMUoLs"]Todd Sucherman: Ghost Note Lesson - from Methods & Mechanics II DVD - YouTube[/ame]

[Dustin]

Pratice singles and doubles till the cow's come home. If the cow's don't end up coming home, well keep practising.

LMAO!!

[Drumbledore]

Playing a left handed drag between your snare drum and your hi-hat with the left hand on the snare drum is another way to work on your ghost notes, especially used in funk grooves. Try and keep the left hand as low as 1/2 to one inch or slightly less above your snare head for the ghost notes and snap the wrist and fingers back to lay into the back beats.

Another rudimental exercise is to play 1/16th note single strokes, keeping both hands low, but put a left hand accent on the 'e' or the 'a' only of "1e+a, 2e+a" on a pad or even on the snare drum (once you've mastered it with a pad first).

[xweasel]

This Dude, Todd somoneorother aint bad

Todd Sucherman: Ghost Note Lesson - from Methods & Mechanics II DVD - YouTube

I decide to put Youtube captions on, and this came up...

[GunnerUK]

This Dude, Todd somoneorother aint bad

Todd Sucherman: Ghost Note Lesson - from Methods & Mechanics II DVD - YouTube

Just watched this.....................................