Juan

Get well soon 😘😘😘

I guess that depends on your specific High Hat's and module's capabilities. This is where the high-end stuff is significantly different. 

On a firts search, and though it may vary for an Alesis kit:

https://rolandcorp.com.au/blog/typical-drum-playing-techniques-v-drums

I have a low end ekit but with a stand high hat with two parts, and though i can't compare with an acoustic I can do most of what my beginner level allows, just with a bit difficulties around half-open high hat, that may be due to my own limitations. Just having a regular stand and pedal will make a real difference in terms of how you practice, and that was one of the things I based my buying decission. About sounds, what I hear from high end kits does not feel like there are significant shortcomings.

18 hours ago, Jason said:

 I may just be your biggest student challenge to date hahaaha see you guys in a couple of days ! 

Come on Jason! You are so far ahead of me that you look like a tiny figure over the horizon 😄

In fact you have shifted my drumming goals from playing along music I like, to playing music with people I like 🙂

See ya!

2 minutes ago, Christopher said:

@Juan I am always willing to give things a try! Though I have played for a long time, I came from concert/marching band. I am new to playing a drum kit. My speed around the kit is slow 😞

Slow is solid, solid will become fast. So they say, not that i know (yet) 😄

On 4/6/2020 at 11:54 PM, Christopher said:

Awesome! This is the area I have decided to work on along with the beginning lesson track.

Good decission! may I suggest some stick control exercises? They worked miracles for me.

Just started working on "Crazy". I first learned the snare/bass pattern (L1) and was pretty easy and groovy. The snare-bass-silence-bass-snare is also there in a two bar groove I learned for a song, so it was pretty strightforward to get it going. But I acknowledge from that experience, that it is at first a bit tricky both the silence and the simetry.

For no particular reason my next move after playing with and without the click, was using 16th notes on the high hat. I thought it could sound nice, but I only half succeeded with coordinating it. But even my flawed results sounded promising.

I'm already thinking if some of the basic fills would fit in somehow. I'll have to give them a try 🙂

First, the concept is great, you really have put on our shoes to make them more useful. With all the tools you provide it's just a matter of us putting in the practice time. I just can't think now on how to improve them; maybe I will have some ideas once I start working on them, but for now , they look perfect.

I also quite like the songs selection, that's an additional bonus as I guess I'll go through them many times. And the sound is so good and the production so clear that it's easier to focus on the musical keys than in the mainstream music.

Finally, the gooves and fills are both new and challenging, giving me that exciting thrill of new goals to conquer, event for Level 1 🙂

So thanks so much, and congratulations for the great work.

Great! just in time for my lesson review 👍