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    Hey all

    I've been recently adding lots of percussion to my set-up. I now have two Jam Blocks and 3 Cowbells on the go (all LP)

    I got hold of a bracket to attach a bass drum pedal to one of the Cowbells, just to add more variety. I've had it for a couple of days and its really good fun, although I'm still very much only getting a feel for it. I tend to just be adding off beat cowbell hits into otherwise rather straight simple grooves.

    Anybody with more experience playing cowbell with the left foot have any tips on how to improve?

    Cheers, have a good one!
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    Funky is your man. He's got his cowbell rigged with a beater too. I'll bet he can give you plenty of advise Yom.
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    I'll second that PB.....

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    okay, funky! Come out, come out, wherever you are! (I'd like to know too!)
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    check out some videos of Horacio (El Negro) Hernandez. This is the specialist
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    Cheers Saturn,

    Just found this little gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh0Df...eature=related

    Two masters at work there.

    I'd like to be able to eventually do his trick of keeping a clave (sp?) pattern going with his left foot to underlie everything else, very impressive.
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    play it like a double kick? then again that will just sound like muck.....

    Keep the ball of your feet on the hi hat and the heel of your foot playing the cowbell and make some things up like that?
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    i started by just getting comfy with the feel of the pedal and the beater hitting something so hard and ungiving and not playing it too hard. then i went thru all the excersizes that i used to learn left foot hi hat. like playing standard 4/4 rock beats and playing straight ahead wholes on the 1 with the left foot. then moving the wholes to the 2, then three and so forth. then do the same with with a 4/8 feel placing the bell on the &s. then do the same with the cowbell doing 1/2s, 1/4s...ect. sooner or later you will be able to place the cowbel anywhere in the measure.


    the latin clave stuff gets a little harder/complicated. it requires an understanding of the language of the music and understanding the clave in general. i am still learning with much frustration how to play left foot clave and drumkit at the same time like antonio sanchez and el negro in 1 and 2easy time sigs, much less three and four odd time sigs going at a time. thats just crazy stuff. nobody should be allowed to be that talented.

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