@@emmaswain3084 I’ve tried them all, and I’d recommend one with a gum rubber top, like the one being used in this video. It’s also quiet, so your housemates won’t complain. ;]
I haven’t watched the video yet, but my uncle has been drumming for 35 years and he told me one exercise to help with speed is do 1 left, 1 right, 2 left, 2 right, etc up to 8 then go back down to 1. It’s a good exercise and helped me a lot. Btw thanks for the video. 👍
Just wanted to chime in (as a beginner) and say that DBO is definitely beginner-friendly. As Gabe says, it starts as basic as picking up sticks and takes off from there. The pace is not intimidating and I have found that the skills taught are very well organized. I have found that it's very well thought out and planned for good, steady progress. I'm impressed that Gabe and his team have put together such a great program.
That means the world to me, thank you so much for sharing and for being a part of the #DBOFamily! I'm honored to help guide you along your drumming journey!
@@zamasoo255 As a beginner, pretty much any routine repeatedly done for one month is going to help with speed. I plan to go through Gabe's 'challenges' once I have decent hand/foot skills to truly test the effectiveness, but I'm confident that they will be effective.
Agreed. And the price point is very fair. For less than $30/month (if you don’t pay by the year), you get more content than you could possibly consume in that time frame. It’s very well organized, fairly easy to follow, I would recommend this program for any beginner interested in learning how to play the drums.
God loves y’all, have a great night or day and be safe, Jesus is King! read the Bible! and Give thanks to God! Love the Lord our God! the Most High! Amen! Romans 5:19 - For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. Amen! 2 Corinthians 12:9 - But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. Amen!
"if you're only playing loud, then you're not a very dynamic drummer". Love the clip of Steve Moore playing while you said that. Steve being an exceptionally good and amazingly dynamic drummer.
I attended the 5 day hand speed challenge. It really helps me a lot( just for sharing my single doubles already reach 170 bpm). Thx Gabe for the free course and different pdf for me to practice.
I'm a old timer who always wanted to learn the drums. I happened to find your channel and I am impressed with your presentation, knowledge but most of all your lessons. I feel I can progress ( and that there is hope) to become a competent drummer. Thank you !🥁👍 Subscribed!
Two extremely helpful books for any drummer. 1) Stick Control for the Snare Drummer by George Lawrence Stone and 2) Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer by Ted Reed. Great drummers know the content of these books by heart, even if they’ve never read them. Very common required reading/practicing by drum instructors for several decades, although some teachers will tell their students to purchase the books and practice practice practice the content until it becomes second mature to the drummer. Other teachers will create lessons/lesson plans based entirely on the content of these books, often without mentioning the books by name or author. Whether done intentionally or unintentionally, this gives the illusion that the teacher came up with the lesson plan, not the author. When practiced as suggested, magic happens and the drummer becomes magnificent in his or her drumming capabilities. The reputation of the instructor increases in a very positive manner when they, the teacher, has chosen not to mention the books or authors, as the instructor is given credit for creating a brilliant plan to improve the playing capabilities of their student drummers.
Man I ha e been working on my singles my doubles and my triples as well as my paradidles I know I misspelled it. But as a beginner that is almost 43 I am wishing I was aloud to play the drums when I was in band class lol you are amazing it is kind of complicated with the rudiments you are explaining but I can see how it is worth it. And the further along I get I will definitely watch this video again. I love it and you. God bless you.
Nice series of practice patterns. Fluid technique, perfection of movement harmonious to the bounce speed, and stamina exercises are what creates speed ultimately. It doesn't really matter what exercises you play, as long as they include all the bounce stroke possibilities, singles, doubles, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets. I'm guessing the bro shows this in lessons 1 and 2. Gladstone bounce exercises help the development of this, you can use the Gladstone approach with finger and or wrist movements. Except at the end of stamina techniques when muscles are tiring (stop at that point) don't tense. Don't practice at a speed where you start tense, practicing without relaxed fluid movements will take you backwards. Which ever speed you start at, playing relaxed with repetition you'll soon get up to the next speed above
I appreciate your videos and instructions, they are very well thought out and helpful. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but I noticed that the third bar of the six-stroke roll is written incorrectly. I was sight reading the exercise and it threw me for a few measures until I realized the mistake. Thanks again for creating ask of this wonderful content.
hola, espero puedas traducir esto amigo, esta genial tus ejercicios voy a tratar de hacerlos durante esos 30 dias me trasare esa meta, tambien me guataria acceder a tus curzos mas me hace falta el dinero, pero gracias muy genial tus videos bendiciones...
Hi DBO. I just want to say, that this video, is really inspiring me to get faster hands, and I think it helps. I just have one problem: when I play on my practice pad, it feels like my left hand is stuck, when I play the push-pull technique, and that my right hand is way more flexible. I’m not sure why, but it doesn’t feel right. Is there anything I can do to improve my left hand?
Hey, I'm having some issues with push/pull, I can't seem to get the rebound you do, and the only way to do it is to use my wrist, which seems kind of pointless considering its about not using your wrist, I was wondering if I could get some more insight into how to do it?
Great video! Alot of amazing tips and excercises for not only the begginers but allso for drummers that are getting back into playing for fun!...Thank you again! Lots of love!!
This is what I have been looking for. The thing is that I don't know how to count/make use of my time signature together with my rudiments I only know how to play the rudiments but don't know how to count. I would love it if you can explain them to me
Super helpfully video. But way most drummer when play on practice pad hold drumsticks on the balance point of the stick but when they play on drum kit they hold in the end of the stick?
I'm going to start right now,so Day 1,08-24-2021and challenge myself, even though I have some experience with drumming, I have to practice my fundamentals,and want to get faster.so again thank you for the tips I will comment about my progress in 1,to 2 weeks and until then,happy drumming.
30+ years guitar player here with limited movement range on both wrists due to some multiple fractures. 2 weeks ago i finally pulled the trigger on a drum kit and started playing, as much as the drum has always been an intimidating instrument, the more i practice on a pad and on the set, i have a lot of fun even though with my age and limb conditions showing up. Those exercises you post makes playing drums easier. It actually helps loosening my fingers for playing guitar with less pain as my fingers tends to "lock". Thank you for the tricks and tips!!
Because you can do each of these excercises for a lifetime, it's really hard to know when you're "done" with each part. For me rhe last part never been an issue, because I've never managed to get the rudiments up to the speed point where my muscles have to improve.
Hey that's a cool technique. I been practicing pera diddle because it common tech for jazz drumming. I can see it and hear the difference in rhythm. :3
I have a disabled left hand. I have a trick of wearing a velcro glove and I have velcro on the stick too..This utterly destroys my ability to control the stick in any serious way, however it does help me when my hand simply tried opening its fingers ( it does that occasionaly ) Even mooe annoying is that my right leg and left ankle and my back, are all suffering too, and sometimes I simply dont kick when I need to kick and sometimes I kick when I dont want to, and similarly, I sometimes dont open the hat when I need to, and this is down to spinal issues, as well as having 12 breaks in my femur, then developing a bone infectio, then having 7 taken out of the femur, and having to lose 60% of the muscle due to the spread of the infection, and as for the spine, 4 breaks in my back and 3 in my neck, putting me into a wheelchair and after 4 years I managed to get out, but with serious issues... My drumming has taken a massive MASSIVE hit, but I still love to play, albeit very badly.
How important is the practice pad? I always see these videos using the hard wood or plastic base with rubber on top. Never do I see what I have the Remo practice pad that has a “softer” surface and little rebound. I know for a fact that the harder the pad surface the better the rebound. So with that said, how important is the type of pad I practice on to help me progress?
Important I think. You need a variety of surfaces. Drum kits are just that, different surfaces, responding and 'feeling' different. some people like pillows Denis Chambers springs to mind. Personally, I never liked them, found it too easy to injure my self, also No good for rebound. You could get several pads, and get used to the change in feel a you move beteen them, that might be good.
On the six stroke roll about 6 minutes in, I noticed the third measure show RLRRRL instead of RLLRRL like the rest of the six stroke roll, i was wondering if that was intentional? I listened to you playing the six stroke roll but couldn’t tell if you used the RRRL or the LLRR, it was too fast for me to tell hints why I’m here lol
Wait a minute… I enjoy playing drums and also love collecting all kinds of tarantula species. Is the opening beat the theme played in The Tarantula Collective theme?
I’ve been doing every exercise for 45 minutes for the past five days, it’s good because I’ve been playing on and off for ten years and I really want to make up for lost time. My catalog of rudiments has certainly grown and my dynamics are a little more present, however I notice that with my doubles on one day my right hand is on point and the left feels bloated and out of sync and the next day it’s the other way around. Any suggestions?
I would guess you're right hand dominant? Some good advice that an old friend gave me is that no matter how much you practice with both hands your dominant side will always be better unless you're truly ambidextrous. Personally I'm right handed and so my left always feels a little behind. What I like to do is double everything for my left hand. Whatever i'm practicing the left hand does everything twice. It helps to level the field between both hands. For some the difference isn't as apparent and they won't have to try as hard. For me personally I have to put a lot of effort into the left hand to get it even with the right. Just bad genetics I guess lol.
I’ve struggled to memorize rudiments. Is there something I can do or a food I can eat to help retain that information better? I can play off sheet music, but I have difficulty bridging the gap between practicing rudiments and applying that to the kit. I’m also more consistent on the pad than when I play my kit, which is mildly frustrating 😂The simpler stick patterns I’m familiar with, but memorizing much past double and triple paradiddles is where I lose it😄I’m playing as a therapeutic outlet for my PTSD symptoms, so exactness is not my goal so much as exercising my mind. But, I would like to improve on my practice routine, if I can get past my little obstacles.
Totally relatable dude. I had the same issue for the longest time - and obviously everyone is different, but just speaking for myself - I found what cracked that nut was realizing that I had to readjust my mentality. I used to view practicing rudiments and practicing playing on the kit as two completely different modes of drumming... As if working on building technique and working on being comfortable playing tunes around the kit were each extremely useful in their own way but fundamentally 2 different methods of drumming (or at least practicing). And by thinking that way I found myself with the same problem you are describing here, which is how to dissolve that barrier and combine the two. But here's the thing, there is no barrier. It's just an arbitrary separation our minds made automatically due to our nonstop unconscious need to categorize things, and that wall only existed in my mind, not in reality, because music is music, drumming is drumming, skill is skill and you can always incorporate any and all aspects of it as you see fit at any time, so when I realized that I became more mindful of technique and precision while jamming out tunes which made a huge improvement and tightened up my freestyle playing, and likewise I loosened up when working on rudiments and started to view them as just a different kinds of jams and this really helped me build up my chops because it became fun, and addictive when I saw how fast results could be achieved, but still focused on playing proper and all, just with the added freedom for nuances which helps bring out the musicality in them and also helped build control for whenever I actually did want to sound strictly mechanical. Hopefully at least some of that rant makes sense to you lol but just in case, here's a couple wicked tunes that helped me immensely in applying paradiddle grooves to the kit. As always start slow and build up to speed. I love TH-cam for having the different playback speeds specifically for this reason lol th-cam.com/video/81XFJ6t6vU8/w-d-xo.html - Danko Jones - Full of Regret (live for The Plyes Sessions) th-cam.com/video/8xguUcTs5pQ/w-d-xo.html - Foo Fighters - Rope (Live on Letterman) th-cam.com/video/Qv3o915grTc/w-d-xo.html - Rope (Foo Fighters) ★ Drum Lesson | How To Play Drum Solo (Taylor Hawkins) Cheers and keep on rocking my dude!
@@SEJay-gj2cv Appreciate this write up. Coming back to drumming after years off and always remember having the same mentality. Links are great as well, can't wait to try that solo.
i got a challenge for myself. there is this gig in one month and there are 2 songs I need to know how to play and those 2 songs are 10bpm faster than my max on semi-relaxed playing. I consider my hands regular on what comes to speed. relaxed playing with 16th notes (wrist/finger/up&down) is on 170bpm. I can do it on 175bpm but it starts to get really sloppy after that. what you guys think, am i able to get there in one month ? and if you got a excerice for me pleease tell me about it! thanks, Theo.
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@@emmaswain3084 I’ve tried them all, and I’d recommend one with a gum rubber top, like the one being used in this video. It’s also quiet, so your housemates won’t complain. ;]
1. Technique 2:24 (Push Pull Pyramid 3:06)
2. Dynamics & Control 3:35 (Single-Double Pyramid 5:14)
3. Pattern memorization 5:34 (Rudiment Ladder 6:54)
4. Muscle development. 7:20 (Tabata 8:06)
Thank you
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I haven’t watched the video yet, but my uncle has been drumming for 35 years and he told me one exercise to help with speed is do 1 left, 1 right, 2 left, 2 right, etc up to 8 then go back down to 1. It’s a good exercise and helped me a lot. Btw thanks for the video. 👍
Very nice!
Isn't that a paradiddle?
@@IsaacWale2004nah, paradidle is RLRR LRLL, he meant like RRLL RRRLLL RRRRLLLL
@@JohnDoe-po9mi Oh okay
@@IsaacWale2004paraddidle is great 😊
Just wanted to chime in (as a beginner) and say that DBO is definitely beginner-friendly. As Gabe says, it starts as basic as picking up sticks and takes off from there. The pace is not intimidating and I have found that the skills taught are very well organized. I have found that it's very well thought out and planned for good, steady progress. I'm impressed that Gabe and his team have put together such a great program.
That means the world to me, thank you so much for sharing and for being a part of the #DBOFamily! I'm honored to help guide you along your drumming journey!
hey pal, did this video help you and did it help in your speed?
@@zamasoo255 As a beginner, pretty much any routine repeatedly done for one month is going to help with speed. I plan to go through Gabe's 'challenges' once I have decent hand/foot skills to truly test the effectiveness, but I'm confident that they will be effective.
Agreed. And the price point is very fair. For less than $30/month (if you don’t pay by the year), you get more content than you could possibly consume in that time frame. It’s very well organized, fairly easy to follow, I would recommend this program for any beginner interested in learning how to play the drums.
God loves y’all, have a great night or day and be safe, Jesus is King! read the Bible! and Give thanks to God! Love the Lord our God! the Most High! Amen!
Romans 5:19 - For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. Amen!
2 Corinthians 12:9 - But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. Amen!
"if you're only playing loud, then you're not a very dynamic drummer". Love the clip of Steve Moore playing while you said that.
Steve being an exceptionally good and amazingly dynamic drummer.
i noticed that too, i was like... uhhh?
He looks like he's playing loud but he is great a dynamics despite how it looks. Lol
Seriously - why call out Steve?
Yeah, I think he put that clip not because of that particular drummer, but because it looks so chaotic and mad, Steve Moore is so funny
I think he’s just using the clip just for transition and that’s pretty much it
I attended the 5 day hand speed challenge. It really helps me a lot( just for sharing my single doubles already reach 170 bpm). Thx Gabe for the free course and different pdf for me to practice.
Amazing! So happy to hear you are seeing the progress!
I'm a old timer who always wanted to learn the drums. I happened to find your channel and I am impressed with your presentation, knowledge but most of all your lessons. I feel I can progress ( and that there is hope) to become a competent drummer. Thank you !🥁👍 Subscribed!
That's amazing, thanks so much for the kind words! Welcome to the family!
I'm 97 years old and now playing Arch Enemy with ease because of this lesson
Two extremely helpful books for any drummer.
1) Stick Control for the Snare Drummer by George Lawrence Stone and
2) Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer by Ted Reed.
Great drummers know the content of these books by heart, even if they’ve never read them. Very common required reading/practicing by drum instructors for several decades, although some teachers will tell their students to purchase the books and practice practice practice the content until it becomes second mature to the drummer. Other teachers will create lessons/lesson plans based entirely on the content of these books, often without mentioning the books by name or author. Whether done intentionally or unintentionally, this gives the illusion that the teacher came up with the lesson plan, not the author. When practiced as suggested, magic happens and the drummer becomes magnificent in his or her drumming capabilities. The reputation of the instructor increases in a very positive manner when they, the teacher, has chosen not to mention the books or authors, as the instructor is given credit for creating a brilliant plan to improve the playing capabilities of their student drummers.
which do you prefer to read first?
Man I ha e been working on my singles my doubles and my triples as well as my paradidles I know I misspelled it. But as a beginner that is almost 43 I am wishing I was aloud to play the drums when I was in band class lol you are amazing it is kind of complicated with the rudiments you are explaining but I can see how it is worth it. And the further along I get I will definitely watch this video again. I love it and you. God bless you.
That Second Exercise Took Me Back To Drumline When Dr Lee and Devin Went At it!!!
Your video editing is just sooo good - and you are a humble man helping other drummers! That's a wonderful combo
I play darabukah, not kit, and I'm looking to increase my speed and precision. This video gave me some good ideas for practice. Thank you!
Nice series of practice patterns. Fluid technique, perfection of movement harmonious to the bounce speed, and stamina exercises are what creates speed ultimately. It doesn't really matter what exercises you play, as long as they include all the bounce stroke possibilities, singles, doubles, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets. I'm guessing the bro shows this in lessons 1 and 2. Gladstone bounce exercises help the development of this, you can use the Gladstone approach with finger and or wrist movements. Except at the end of stamina techniques when muscles are tiring (stop at that point) don't tense. Don't practice at a speed where you start tense, practicing without relaxed fluid movements will take you backwards. Which ever speed you start at, playing relaxed with repetition you'll soon get up to the next speed above
I appreciate your videos and instructions, they are very well thought out and helpful. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but I noticed that the third bar of the six-stroke roll is written incorrectly. I was sight reading the exercise and it threw me for a few measures until I realized the mistake. Thanks again for creating ask of this wonderful content.
Its always a good day when Gabe Posts
It's always a good day when Easton comments
Great Lesson. Love the sequence @6:54.
What brand of practice drum pad are you using? Or what is a good practice drum to use that’s not super expensive?
Thanks great exercices and explanations. I may be wrong but I think there is a minor error @5:50, the third measure third note should be a 'L'.
7:24 I've never seen something more percussion than this moment
Bro, this helped so much. Thank you, I'm still not fully done with the 30 days but I'm much faster than before. This is amazing!
Thanks for this free tips, it really helps me a lot..
I love I prevail so seeing the drumsticks that said I prevail on it was cool, not sure if it was the band or just a brand but it's still cool
Great instructional video ! Wish I had this about 10 yrs ago, but its never to late to improve techniques ! Thank you ! 🙂
I’m a marching drummer so this is my nature to go, SPEEED!
video starts at 2:24
If I wanted to learn more of a metal style of playing drums Is DBO gunna be right for me?
By nr 2. Six Stroke Roll 5:57 Is the notation correct? In the 3th bar it is R L R R R L, but shouldn't it be R L L R R L?
nice touch at 4,59 :D great vid by the way, thanks :)
Is there a typo at 6:05? The third measure is different from the rest with three “R”s. JW
hola, espero puedas traducir esto amigo, esta genial tus ejercicios voy a tratar de hacerlos durante esos 30 dias me trasare esa meta, tambien me guataria acceder a tus curzos mas me hace falta el dinero, pero gracias muy genial tus videos bendiciones...
These are amazing!!
Im a new drummer myself, so I’m definitely gonna try doing some of these techniques ✨
Thank you!
hav you taught how fo hav good fluidity between hands and ur kick and how to incorporate your kick into your fills
At 5:14 - Thats the Jaws Theme! :D "The Paradiddle is working!"
What is that song you played in the beginning?
Hi DBO. I just want to say, that this video, is really inspiring me to get faster hands, and I think it helps. I just have one problem: when I play on my practice pad, it feels like my left hand is stuck, when I play the push-pull technique, and that my right hand is way more flexible. I’m not sure why, but it doesn’t feel right. Is there anything I can do to improve my left hand?
Hey, I'm having some issues with push/pull, I can't seem to get the rebound you do, and the only way to do it is to use my wrist, which seems kind of pointless considering its about not using your wrist, I was wondering if I could get some more insight into how to do it?
Man your editing is on point 👌 sik channel man.. subscribed ❤
Great video! Alot of amazing tips and excercises for not only the begginers but allso for drummers that are getting back into playing for fun!...Thank you again! Lots of love!!
This is what I have been looking for. The thing is that I don't know how to count/make use of my time signature together with my rudiments I only know how to play the rudiments but don't know how to count. I would love it if you can explain them to me
Would you suggest using Metronome and increase the speed everyday to do this exercise?
Great tutorial. Liked and subscribed to your channel. Any suggestion on metronome count for the beginners for these exercises?
Amo la edición de tus videos ❤
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Thank you with these videos man, keep it up!
0:55 I wasn’t expecting this. It made me laugh lol
This looks like a great exercise to speed up my hands. I accept the challenge to do this for thirty days.
Heck yes!
has it helped?
@@venusngigi hell yeah
@@markvandivier awesome!!
Super helpfully video.
But way most drummer when play on practice pad hold drumsticks on the balance point of the stick but when they play on drum kit they hold in the end of the stick?
Great lesson,man thanks even for experienced drummers too.
Haven’t started but jeez I didn’t know it was gonna be this hard
confused on the 6th stroke roll in the third measure is there supposed to be 3 right hands? If there isn't then that's what the disconnect is
Sick lesson!!
Really good stuff here man, love the channel
Such an awesome lesson.
I'm going to start right now,so Day 1,08-24-2021and challenge myself, even though I have some experience with drumming, I have to practice my fundamentals,and want to get faster.so again thank you for the tips I will comment about my progress in 1,to 2 weeks and until then,happy drumming.
howd it go
How’s it going
5:30 was legit all of the movie Drumline lol
How do you do a push and how do you do a pull?
30+ years guitar player here with limited movement range on both wrists due to some multiple fractures. 2 weeks ago i finally pulled the trigger on a drum kit and started playing, as much as the drum has always been an intimidating instrument, the more i practice on a pad and on the set, i have a lot of fun even though with my age and limb conditions showing up. Those exercises you post makes playing drums easier. It actually helps loosening my fingers for playing guitar with less pain as my fingers tends to "lock". Thank you for the tricks and tips!!
thank you for the tips
My pleasure!
Worthy lesson in general but that rudiment ladder is gold!
I will try this one and..... tq man 💟☮
Awesome!
Great demo of push pull
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but 2. Six Stroke Roll has an error in the notation on the 3rd group of 6 with three RLRRRL instead of RLLRRL.
Hey dude hello from Australia. Love the channel, Im getting back on the drums after 6 years of spinal surgeries.
EXCELENTE TIO🥁🥁🥁🥁
Amazing indeed. You're a good teacher. It have really helped me improve.
Chat, do you think this will help me in my band class. I got assigned snare and ingl I’m a beginner.
Thanks Mr Gabe
Because you can do each of these excercises for a lifetime, it's really hard to know when you're "done" with each part.
For me rhe last part never been an issue, because I've never managed to get the rudiments up to the speed point where my muscles have to improve.
Hey that's a cool technique. I been practicing pera diddle because it common tech for jazz drumming. I can see it and hear the difference in rhythm. :3
this is awesome exercise for us 🔥
I have a disabled left hand. I have a trick of wearing a velcro glove and I have velcro on the stick too..This utterly destroys my ability to control the stick in any serious way, however it does help me when my hand simply tried opening its fingers ( it does that occasionaly )
Even mooe annoying is that my right leg and left ankle and my back, are all suffering too, and sometimes I simply dont kick when I need to kick and sometimes I kick when I dont want to, and similarly, I sometimes dont open the hat when I need to, and this is down to spinal issues, as well as having 12 breaks in my femur, then developing a bone infectio, then having 7 taken out of the femur, and having to lose 60% of the muscle due to the spread of the infection, and as for the spine, 4 breaks in my back and 3 in my neck, putting me into a wheelchair and after 4 years I managed to get out, but with serious issues... My drumming has taken a massive MASSIVE hit, but I still love to play, albeit very badly.
Thanks brother 🌷🔥🙏🏿
You're welcome!
How important is the practice pad? I always see these videos using the hard wood or plastic base with rubber on top. Never do I see what I have the Remo practice pad that has a “softer” surface and little rebound. I know for a fact that the harder the pad surface the better the rebound.
So with that said, how important is the type of pad I practice on to help me progress?
The softer the pad, the faster you can build your chops. I've practiced double strokes and paradiddles on pillows before to achieve faster results.
Important I think. You need a variety of surfaces. Drum kits are just that, different surfaces, responding and 'feeling' different. some people like pillows Denis Chambers springs to mind. Personally, I never liked them, found it too easy to injure my self, also No good for rebound. You could get several pads, and get used to the change in feel a you move beteen them, that might be good.
Great video, great exercises.
On the six stroke roll about 6 minutes in, I noticed the third measure show RLRRRL instead of RLLRRL like the rest of the six stroke roll, i was wondering if that was intentional? I listened to you playing the six stroke roll but couldn’t tell if you used the RRRL or the LLRR, it was too fast for me to tell hints why I’m here lol
Same reason I'm going thru the comments 😄 The music shows the same RRR again while he's playing it, but I can't tell either.
I downloaded it and threw a slow-mo effect on it- it's L L R R not L R R R. It's the same all the way through. Thought that was wrong.
Wait a minute… I enjoy playing drums and also love collecting all kinds of tarantula species. Is the opening beat the theme played in The Tarantula Collective theme?
Where can I find the “practice pad” you are using?
traditional grip vs matched grip i'm using trad the best off bouth worlds right hand mactced grip and right hand trad
Don't forget your metronome! I wish I would have had one when first playing.
I like how you wouldn’t expect him to be the drummer for I Prevail
it's so good thank you for teach!
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Thanks for the video. What drum is that that you're playing on?
Cool lesson love it! 🙂
Are the 2 days rest per week important for improvement, or can you do it 7 days a week?
7:25 pillar #4 tabatas
Impressive af. Editing is wow
How can we work the fingers with traditionnal grip ?
I’ve been doing every exercise for 45 minutes for the past five days, it’s good because I’ve been playing on and off for ten years and I really want to make up for lost time. My catalog of rudiments has certainly grown and my dynamics are a little more present, however I notice that with my doubles on one day my right hand is on point and the left feels bloated and out of sync and the next day it’s the other way around. Any suggestions?
I would guess you're right hand dominant? Some good advice that an old friend gave me is that no matter how much you practice with both hands your dominant side will always be better unless you're truly ambidextrous. Personally I'm right handed and so my left always feels a little behind. What I like to do is double everything for my left hand. Whatever i'm practicing the left hand does everything twice. It helps to level the field between both hands. For some the difference isn't as apparent and they won't have to try as hard. For me personally I have to put a lot of effort into the left hand to get it even with the right. Just bad genetics I guess lol.
Thanks Gabe!!!
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I like paradiddles, thanks Gabe!
This is amazing, I bought a drum pad not even a week ago and I am already able to play at 250 BPM, thanks man.
do you have a tutorial to build hand and foot independence
Thanks for sharing 🖤🙏
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I’ve struggled to memorize rudiments. Is there something I can do or a food I can eat to help retain that information better? I can play off sheet music, but I have difficulty bridging the gap between practicing rudiments and applying that to the kit. I’m also more consistent on the pad than when I play my kit, which is mildly frustrating 😂The simpler stick patterns I’m familiar with, but memorizing much past double and triple paradiddles is where I lose it😄I’m playing as a therapeutic outlet for my PTSD symptoms, so exactness is not my goal so much as exercising my mind. But, I would like to improve on my practice routine, if I can get past my little obstacles.
Totally relatable dude. I had the same issue for the longest time - and obviously everyone is different, but just speaking for myself - I found what cracked that nut was realizing that I had to readjust my mentality. I used to view practicing rudiments and practicing playing on the kit as two completely different modes of drumming... As if working on building technique and working on being comfortable playing tunes around the kit were each extremely useful in their own way but fundamentally 2 different methods of drumming (or at least practicing). And by thinking that way I found myself with the same problem you are describing here, which is how to dissolve that barrier and combine the two. But here's the thing, there is no barrier.
It's just an arbitrary separation our minds made automatically due to our nonstop unconscious need to categorize things, and that wall only existed in my mind, not in reality, because music is music, drumming is drumming, skill is skill and you can always incorporate any and all aspects of it as you see fit at any time, so when I realized that I became more mindful of technique and precision while jamming out tunes which made a huge improvement and tightened up my freestyle playing, and likewise I loosened up when working on rudiments and started to view them as just a different kinds of jams and this really helped me build up my chops because it became fun, and addictive when I saw how fast results could be achieved, but still focused on playing proper and all, just with the added freedom for nuances which helps bring out the musicality in them and also helped build control for whenever I actually did want to sound strictly mechanical.
Hopefully at least some of that rant makes sense to you lol but just in case, here's a couple wicked tunes that helped me immensely in applying paradiddle grooves to the kit. As always start slow and build up to speed. I love TH-cam for having the different playback speeds specifically for this reason lol
th-cam.com/video/81XFJ6t6vU8/w-d-xo.html - Danko Jones - Full of Regret (live for The Plyes Sessions)
th-cam.com/video/8xguUcTs5pQ/w-d-xo.html - Foo Fighters - Rope (Live on Letterman)
th-cam.com/video/Qv3o915grTc/w-d-xo.html - Rope (Foo Fighters) ★ Drum Lesson | How To Play Drum Solo (Taylor Hawkins)
Cheers and keep on rocking my dude!
@@SEJay-gj2cv Appreciate this write up. Coming back to drumming after years off and always remember having the same mentality. Links are great as well, can't wait to try that solo.
So I take the pad, set the timer for 5 minutes and start 1 exercise, what tempo should I choose? I can handle 150 bpm just in case.
You are drummer?
i got a challenge for myself. there is this gig in one month and there are 2 songs I need to know how to play and those 2 songs are 10bpm faster than my max on semi-relaxed playing. I consider my hands regular on what comes to speed. relaxed playing with 16th notes (wrist/finger/up&down) is on 170bpm. I can do it on 175bpm but it starts to get really sloppy after that. what you guys think, am i able to get there in one month ? and if you got a excerice for me pleease tell me about it! thanks, Theo.
Excellent!
Thank you
what's that drum pad you're using called