combo slide-to-heel-toe?
I was practicing my single pedal bass work this morning, and I realized it might be possible to do quick quadruples by combing a slide technique for the first two hits into a heel-toe for the second two. It seems to work -- in theory at least -- because your foot position ends up high on the pedal after the second hit (after the slide) and then the "heel" (actually ball of the foot) strike helps to re-position the foot lower down on the pedal, thereby setting your foot up for the final toe hit. Right now, I can't do it quickly at all, and I have trouble not adding an extra pause in between the slide hits and the heel-toe hits. I'm trying to figure out whether my "theory" is a sound one, so that I know whether to invest practice time in trying to get better and faster at this. Does anyone out there do quadruples this way on a single pedal? Does it work well once you have it down?
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