This article of double bass drumming with eighth note triplets comes from the original book Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, which is also included in the new and revised edition. Triplets are a challenging aspect of double bass drumming due to the fact that the right hands and right feet (and left hand and left feet) don’t always line up and play at the same time within beats and grooves. Take the challenge and introduce eighth note triplets to your double bass drum vocabulary. In the new and revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Double Bass Drumming, Bobby Rondinelli includes nine new double bass drumming chapters. The new and expanded edition covers contemporary techniques such as bass drum double strokes, feet-only exercises, binary and ternary rhythms, “skiplets”, beat turnarounds, the “ladder”, and playing doubles with the hands while playing singles with the feet. These concepts will challenge your playing while […]

March 2024 Issue