How to play Bluecoats 2016 Snare Break

Today I will teach you how to master the iconic Bluecoats 2016 Snare Break.
I will teach you how to understand the 3/4 timing, the 4 over 3 polyrhythm, and the techniques and skills to play the break.

0:07 break example
0:33 Lesson
13:54 SLOW
14:41 MED
15:54 FAST

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Geoff Fry is a UK based professional drummer, educator author and clinician.
Geoff marched with the Blue Devils and The Cadets and served as tenor tech with The Bluecoats. He now leads 'The Percussion Theatre' and teaches and performs across the globe.
Contact Geoff for all enquiries.

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[JoceyyyTv]

YESSS! This is what I’ve been wanting to learn❤. please don’t ever stop doing tutorials

[rrzamudio]

Thanks! Finally got around to learning this one 🤙🏼

[Justinz_]

I was able to learn this in an hour and it's really fun to play. Just got to work on those paradiddles when playing faster.

[sgclan]

woah i was struggling on the part following the grandmas but right when you said think of it like a paradiddlediddlediddle i instantly got it

[DavidEliason-xn]

Thank you, this is a huge snare break I’ve been trying to learn. Now I clearly know how to play. Thank you Again 😊

[Anthony_MHS]

I was already trying to learn it and now it’ll be even easier thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏

[pablito_m]

YAYYYY, been asking for this one for a while!! Very happy you made a tutorial, time to practice 🤙🥁

[williamray]

Hey I love your videos! Thanks so much for covering one of my favorite snare breaks! I was wondering in the future you could cover demonic thesis by the 2018 cadets line. They're a super underrated line who had a really hard book that year. Take a look if you're interested.

[freshbeans]

I can't believe I transcribed this myself and then spent a month trying to learn it before finding this video

[kkletus]

Bruh I was about to hack out this exact one tomorrow and you post this

[wreckingslowcars]

I was just wanting to learn this one earlier today!

[eliv]

Awesome breakdown! You should do one on Phantom Regiment’s 2019 snare break or SCV’s 2018 snare feature in the opener

[ThatQuadDrummer]

Hey can you make a video explaining how to play rhythms for example something with a number then a colon then another number? (Example a fivetuplet with 5:3 over it or something)

[amorebrewer]

Could you breakdown bluecoats 2023 percussion feature? Specifically the part with the 7:6 sixteenth notes?

[freshbeans]

the part I struggle with the most is the single-stroke rolls and the quadruplet. Im just not fast enough

[Mathias.BDard]

Could you breakdown how to play Sprizzle?

[ayytism]

Would you be able to break down Martian Mambo played by the old SCV lines? I could send sheets if needed

[DrBicsta]

Those last 2 beats aren’t quite right… I hear a quarter rest in there

[Kellen-we]

You should use your new pad for the videos

[tomford]

Pretty sure the last bar, there is a rest on 2.