Ok, its official. I suck with my left hand. Actually I suck with my whole left side. Although I think I am better with my left foot than my left hand. Again, while working out of Tommy Igoe’s ‘Groove Essentials’ I made it to the rock section that includes 16th note ostinato with both hands. I can keep up fine on the slow (90 bpm) but the fast (155 bpm) is kicking my ass. Bottom line is that my left hand cannot keep up and is weak.
     My solution is simply to switch my 8th note ostinato from my right hand to my left on all rock grooves and start from scratch. If I do this by the time I get back to the 16th note ostinato section of the book, I may be ok. This sounds fantastic in theory, but in reality it will be like taking a step backwards. I found a pretty good article about ambiguousness online.
    This is where I got the idea. Check it out. How many of you right handed folks are playing your ostinato with your left? According to this article, it opens the entire drum set to you because you are no longer cross handed. It makes total since to me. I just hope I can actually do it. I will let you know.

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Show/Hide comments ... : Chris Williams Well the left handed Ostinato is alot harder than I thought it would be. Its like learning to play all over again (at least for me). I am going to have to make this an excercise. 2007-06-05 19:39:39

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