Playing Fast - Ulysses Owens, Jr. | 2 Minute Jazz

Ulysses Owens, Jr. shows the techniques he uses when playing at a
fast tempo.


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Two-Minute Jazz with Ulysses Owen, Jr. We're gonna talk about
playing fast.


The key to playing fast is playing slow first. There's nothing
that I can play fast that I can't first play slow. When you learn
how to play slow, you learn the right placement, right? So you
get on the ride symbol, you consistently play in the same
position, you learn how to feather, the hi-hat on two and four.


But there is a little secret that many don't talk about that
helps you to play fast. That's something called breathing. When I
play fast at a fast tempo, I'm always breathing, and the more
that I breathe, the more that I can stay relaxed while playing
fast.


Another thing is using your hands and your wrists and keeping the
mobility in those hands and wrists depends on very much on being
able to breathe, okay? So, I'll start slow and then play faster
and faster, but watch my breathing change.


And the key thing about breathing is that you have to breathe
more often the faster you play. The other thing is you have to
play more simple. When you play fast, you have to focus on what
is the rhythm I'm gonna play on the ride symbol, how am I gonna
accompany that with the hi-hat and the bass drum, and you get
tighter and you get more simpler, and you just relax the body,
and that way you can play fast.


Playin' fast, but you can play fast if you learn how to play
slow.


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