# Phrases on the kit

From the Rhythm room: Phrases, Catalogue (/rhythm/).

Short rhythms people already know by voice, set on the kit. Say the words first, then find
where each one lands. The hits are written exactly as the Rhythm room lists them.

## Two, four, six, eight

Numbers one to a beat in bar 1; the question twice as fast in bar 2, then silence.

    snare  o - o - o - o - o o o o o o o -
    kick   o - - - o - - - o - - - o - - -

## Ba-dum-tss

Two snare hits and a crash, then nothing. Let the crash ring.

    snare  o o - - - - - -
    crash  - - x - - - - -

## Stomp, stomp, clap

Kick, kick, snare, and a beat of nothing (We Will Rock You).

    snare  - - o -
    kick   o o - -

## Stadium clap

Kick is the shout, snare is the five claps.

    kick   o - o - o - o - - - - - - - - -
    snare  - - - - - - - - o - o - o o o -

## Beethoven's Fifth

Three short notes and a long one, after a rest. Crash for the long one.

    snare  - o o o - - - -
    crash  - - - - x - - -

## Seven Nation Army

Floor tom for the riff, hat on the quarters. Two bars of sixteenths.

    hat    x - - - x - - - x - - - x - - - x - - - x - - - x - - - x - - -
    tom4   o - - - - - o - o - - o - - o - o - - - - - - - o - - - - - - -

## Before you go on

- Say each phrase out loud, then play it without the words
- Two, four, six, eight with the question twice as fast and no rush
- Stomp, stomp, clap as the groove under a four-bar fill
- Ba-dum-tss with the crash ringing out before you stop