Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

guys,
   Just a follow up...went to Starving Musician(music store)...and 
while I was there, I got to talking to the drum guy there, and he 
showed me how to do that triplet move....I think I can get it 
now..;)  Seems like there is alot of control done with the fingers 
and using your thumb and pointer as the fulcrum...but now I 
understand what you guys were trying to explain...;)  Thanks so much!!

Jon
--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Sakamoto" <sakamotj@y...> 
> wrote:
> > 1) open hi-hat.
> > 2) do the whiplash(which results in 3 hits - feels almost like a 
> > forced bounce on the hi-hat)
> > 3)close hi-hat(kinda sims the extended tsssst between triplets)
> > 4) repeat
> 
> Jon,
> 
> Stewart brought you amazingly far on the technical side. If you're 
> anything like me (and let's hope not), after a point exercises 
start 
> seeming abstract and divorced from actual music. But one more drill 
> might be helpful: You could try alternating your kick with a strike 
> of your hi hat cymbal, as if you were playing in 2/4 or 4/4. On 
> every stroke with your hand, you could open up the hi hat a little 
> before closing while you strike the kick. Eventually, you'll feel 
in 
> control of getting that tsst sound. In the next part of the drill, 
> you could concentrate on hitting the hi hat twice, instead of once, 
> opening it up on the second stroke and then closing it with the 
kick 
> as before. In the third step, your hi hat figure would be the full 
> triplet followed by foot close and kick.
> 
> This next suggestion is the hard one. Lock all the doors, shut the 
> shades, leave a message on your phone that you've been called away 
> to a summit meeting, and connect a cd player to your module so that 
> you can listen to it via headphones (for your own protection). If 
> you have any secret disco recordings from the 1970s, spin'em and 
> play along; if not, bribe a ten-year-old to find one for you. 
Almost 
> every one of them will feature that simple pattern of alternating 
> the opened and closed hi hat sound, in either of the simple 
> variations that I described above. If disco is too embarrassing, 
> even in the comfort and solitude of your own home, find a CD by New 
> Order, a punk/new wave band from the 1980s, some of whose beats 
bear 
> the influence of the by then safely superseded disco movement. 
Maybe 
> you can think of other viable substitutes. But, whatever you 
choose, 
> forcing yourself to listen and keep up with the music, may help you 
> to get you the technique.
> 
> Ed