The Highest of Hats - Part 3

Time to wrap up this series of posts about the hi-hat.  This last one will be short - it's just a demonstration of me using the hi-hat pedal within the context of Rock Band.  Here is a video I took of me playing Radiohead's "Creep".  Watch for the single blue notes within a long string of yellow notes - that's where I lift up my foot to switch the hi-hat from closed to open and then back again:

First - the audio track is not the same as the note chart, so it won't quite line up when I miss a note.  Second, special thanks to David Shek of Wounded Soul - he suggested the song, did the editing and put in the intro.  He and all the other good people at Doc's Rockband Mods are amazing.

A few more notes about the video -

1)  In case you didn't notice, it's actually two separate runs spliced together.  I only have one camera so I had to record the chart and the pedal separately.

2)  The long stretches of blue notes (like the ones that start at 1:22 and 2:25) are not the hi-hat - they are the ride cymbal.  That's why my foot is still down on the pedal - I'm playing a different cymbal.

3)  I can't believe I missed some easy parts in this song.  0:26 and 3:02...wtf.  Nailed the fill at 3:05 though - I was happy about that.

4) The hard part at 2:20 when I try to hit an open hi-hat and a kick pedal - that takes some coordination that I don't really have yet.  On a brighter note, if you watch the pedals during that part (the hi-hat pedal and the beater of the kick pedal), I did actually hit it correctly and kept my combo there on the pedal run, just not on the chart run.

So that wraps up my 3-part series on the hi-hat (my hi-hat trilogy, you might say).  I hope you liked it.