toddvinciguerra Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Friday, Jul 17, 2009 - 6:53 PM

Always working on double bass, the need for speed, control and groove.

Vinny

don p Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 1:14 PM

The recurring theme seems to be "not enough time to practice". That's the case with me too. I warm up on a routine from an Ed Shaughnessy video I came across on drummerworld.com (many great vids)it is: playing 16th notes, two bars of singles, two bars of doubles and two bars of paradiddles and then back to the singles without stopping. It is a speed building exercise.
I use a metronome setting of around 80 to start and increase by about 10bpm's after several rounds. I added the inverted paradiddle to it for fun. I get up to around 140 before my retard left hand falls apart. I spend maybe 15-20 mins on this before moving on to other stuff. Now I am adding playalongs that are available here. It's great metronome/time building stuff. With barely an hour each day to practice I have little time left for other things. But like the man said, "every little bit helps."

King Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Monday, Mar 16, 2009 - 9:30 AM

Check this out https://drummerconnection.com/featured/video/3721-ray-luzier-clinic-creating-drum-fills
it's a clip I shot of Ray Luzier explaining different concepts for creating drum fills.

drumhead101541 Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Tuesday, Mar 10, 2009 - 9:12 AM

When I practice, I kinda try to play stuff I have heard recently, it's funny cause most of my tricks and grooves are all things that I have stumbled accross, and then went back and figured it out, it's pretty cool that some accidents in drumming are succesful ideas!

kyle7863 Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Saturday, Mar 7, 2009 - 12:14 AM

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an exercise we do in our drumline is 8 sets of triplets and than you play triplet rolls forever or until you fail.

Just don't overdo it. 
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Great for the left hand, because you're right will go longer and since you don't stop till both of your hands fail, you have to try to get your left hand to keep up with your right.

As far as fills go, i usually just watch my favorite drummers, i would watch one that matches your style of playing as his fills would probably be more relevant to the beats you're playing, it all depends on your style.

inclineline606 Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Friday, Mar 6, 2009 - 2:14 PM

I know what you mean, Hawkeye. I play the cello, and I bring those rudiments into my playing.
Right now I'm working on my rolls and my left hand. I can't even get more than 30 mins. of playing lately, so I haven't improved much. I'm also trying to learn some fills on the hi-hat, and that isn't getting much attention either. Any suggestions on improvement?

King Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009 - 10:01 AM

Getting some Thomas Lang stuff going on there Brian? I'll see ya tonight at the clinic!

cyclonedrums Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Tuesday, Mar 3, 2009 - 6:49 PM

Doubles with my feet. ;D

kyle7863 Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009 - 10:03 PM

Hey hawkeye, a great exercise we do in our drumline is 7 sets of triplets and than you play triplet rolls forever or until you fail. GREAT way to build wrist muscle, and if try hard enough, its also a good way to get those rolls clean and in time.

Just don't overdo it. 

King Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009 - 9:55 AM

It's cool that you jam out while you're working. I keep a set of Hansen Futz pedal under my desk here at work. Every little bit helps.

Hawkeyes83 Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009 - 4:56 PM

Thanks King.  I was actually inspired to try doing that before I read your post by one of my old teachers.  He used to always say "don't practice what you're good at, just practice what you'd be embarassed to play in front of people!"

I will apply this to practicing on the kit.  I'd just been doing it with my hands on a pad (and my desk at work).  Practice practcice.

King Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Monday, Jan 26, 2009 - 5:32 PM

Congratulations Hawkeye! You've just encountered the age old problem of getting your weak hand up to speed. It's an ongoing process my friend. One thing I do is learn to play REALLY SIMPLE beats (ACDC) open handed. That helped me out a lot because after about ten minutes it gets boring just working on specific exercises for coordination. Just keep at it an listen to ANYTHING Jojo Mayer has to say. He has some of the best stick control in the biz right now. SICK HANDS!

drumfreak Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Friday, Jan 23, 2009 - 7:30 PM

I always manage to get paradiddles in each practice / noodle session with my cowbell and other drums. Along with that, I jam to Garage Band loops quite frequently. They are fantastic. Also I try to get on the metronome as much as possible.

As far as songs go, I usually grab some Cake, or Sound of Muzak (Porcupine Tree), along with some Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers (Stadium Arcadium mostly) and a few other great bands like The Doors, and etc.  I find it equally important to play along to songs as it is doing metronome and rudiment work.

I wish I had more time in the day....

Hawkeyes83 Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Friday, Jan 23, 2009 - 6:56 PM

Being pretty new to the drumming game, I'm working on stick control and limb independence.  I have a very musical background (started playing violin at age 4, 25 now) and luckily I know how to practice, not just bang around for an hour.  I've been practicing the paradiddles with all of my limbs alot.  I'm mostly trying to work on my left foot and hand.

Oddly enough, I am able to bring some Violin techniques over to the drums.  If you ever watch a classicly trained violinist, pay attent to their right hand.  You'll notice alot of the same techniques we use on the sticks.  Lots of finger and wrist flexibility and control.  Unfortunately, my right hand is making my left hand seem retarded on the drums, but I know I just need to practice and keep my strokes consistent.

Any suggestions for exercises to build technique in the weak hand?

King Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 - 9:24 AM

I've played on it and it holds up really well. You just have to make sure you keep the pad tightly adjusted to the base.

kyle7863 Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 - 9:33 PM

Thanks man, was looking at the pro-mark one, but the size of the pad just looks too small. The gibraltar one looks pretty sturdy. i'll look deeper into it.

King Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Monday, Jan 5, 2009 - 5:00 PM

Gibralter makes a good one for about 50 bucks.
Here you go my son http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/Gibraltar-GBDP-Bass-Drum-Pad?sku=446025

kyle7863 Says Re: What have you practiced lately?

Submitted On: Thursday, Jan 1, 2009 - 11:59 AM

I've gotten my double strokes to a great speed and my singles are rockin too.

Lately i've been working on my double bass trying to learn heel toe. I wanna get it up to around 200 or 210 eventually so i still need to get one of those bass drum practice pads so im not always making a racket xD