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Fran Merante - Vic Firth Education Team - Applying a Sextuplet and Turning Exercises into Music.

4,813 views · Published 5 July 2009 · 29:55 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: funky2714 · 2009 · Music

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Fran Merante is a member of the Vic Firth Education Team and an Official Endorser of all Vic Firth Products. 

Weapon of choice: Vic Firth American Classic 5A

WARNING!!: This is a DRUM LESSON!! Concepts and Ideas are EXPLAINED THOROUGHLY!! Intended for STUDENTS who are willing to LISTEN. If you have NO PATIENCE or desire to TRULY LEARN, THIS VIDEO MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH.

This video teaches a six roll sextuplet and how to apply it to the drum kit. The video includes methods and concepts that can be used while learning ANY groove or fill. The main focus being on how to apply a groove/fill MUSICALLY, by practicing it at various stages with the end stage being the application of the fill to music. This is a step that is too often overlooked, which makes it quite difficult for the student to be able to apply his/her exercises naturally and comfortably within the realm of music. The goal is to learn the riffs not only in a way that they appear much sooner within the drummers playing but also in a way that is musical, natural, confident, and comfortable and fully compliments the music in a multitude of settings. 

It should be made clear that the last two musical examples in the video are EXERCISES of how to BEGIN getting comfortable with the licks you are trying to learn when adding the element of music for the first time while playing them. They are NOT examples of how to use the licks musically. In these examples, the music is simply being used as a TIME SOURCE to practice the ideas over.  In order to use the licks musically, you must practice them to a point where you are entirely comfortable playing them so that they become part of your regular drumming vocabulary. ONLY at that point will they  eventually occur in your playing without thought, as an emotional reaction to the music you are playing to. In other words, they will occur within your playing MUSICALLY.

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