Originally posted by PIEFURZ
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Dee, a Very nice mix of combo's. I really like your split fist movements and keeping time dead on during your change over's. You're really start to own the move!
There are some times in this song that some of the syncopated combinations could really follow the beat of the melody. (This may write a bit wierd but hang with me here...)
listen to the meloday beat pattern at 1:01 - 1:06 and 2:06 - 2:12 and longer at 3:24 - 3:36
It goes..... da-da-da-da-da, - da-da, - da-da, - Da... repeat. this pattern starts when the singers says "....lonely ROAD" ( I count the word "road" as being the 1 beat (down beat) of the next measure.
Anyway, for the bag you can easily repeat the 5 beat, double beat, double beat, single beat pattern, using a Five punch punch fist roll, several double punches and a single fist at the end. Written in my speed bag format it would be:
F-Roll x5 ' ' RDP ' ' FDP ' ' RSP ' ' ' ' ...repeat. notice the RSP is underlined. I did that to note that you must hit this punch a bit harder (accent it) to have the bag make 4 rebounds, allowing you to start the pattern over again from the front of the bag. If you don't hit it harder to add the fourth rebound you will have to start the pattern from behind the bag with a five punch Reverse Fist Roll, and it will much harder to time that correctly on three rebounds. Notice this pattern starts (First punch of F-Roll) solidly "on" beat 1 of the measure, and also ends with the Reverse Single Punch (RSP) directly ON beat 4 of that measure. Actually The first punch of the Roll starts on beat 1 and the fifth punch of the Roll hits directly on beat 2. The RSP lands on beat 4, so if you think about it 3 or the 4 the main beats in the measure also have a fist land on them, which is why you will hear this as being directly ON the beat, but there is some syncopation thrown in during the double punch sequence. no matter, just have every fist land the bag along with the bass part and your bag beat will be following that part of the melody. Pretty cool and easy to recognize here.
For other parts of the song, you could actually repeat this some combo but make the 5 punch F-Roll a 7 punch roll because you will need a few pick up beats occassionally to carry over from the last measure. after the RSP, just return front on two rebounds and add 2 extra rolling punches. Punch 3 of that 7 punch roll will be on beat 1 of the next measure, starting the pattern again.
It sounds complicated on paper but this is really not hard to do on the bag and you certainly have the punching skill with these combinations to do this.
{Tip: To do F-ROll x5 ' ' RDP smoothly, look at a possible fist order of this combo: F-Roll = R-L-R-L-R ' ' RDP = R-L. notice the last fist of the Roll led the RDP behind the bag. (Right in this example). There are two secrets here. First, note the last two punches of the F-Roll are L-R, which could also be a Front Double Punch if you think about it. the second secret is to let the lead fist of that FDP "L" (fourth punch in the F-Roll) to simply hit and extend through the bag, and then let the Right hit and follow it. exactly like a FDP ' ' RDP, with three punches added on in before it. The easy way is just to extend the left, then right straight out, then right back for the RDP. the left leads, then the right which will automatically put them in the proper position to pull them back in a R-L order. the whole combo would be: R-L-R-L-R ' ' R-L ' ' L-R ' ' R...repeat, or add 2 punches R-L onto the F-Roll.
Air Punch it slowly as you read. It will soon be easy
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