Category: Drumming

The more I practice speed and rudiments, I’ve come to realize it’s my left (non-dominant) hand that’s really holding things up. So I started focusing on my left hand a few days ago. It has helped. My non-dominant hand suddenly feels more coordinated than before. But my finger tips still lack the strength, speed, agility…

Took the time to sketch up a matrix of all possible 16th accents. Credit goes to Electric Campfire. I worked on this at 50-55 bpm. It was hard! I could only kinda sorta do the first four. This is going to take a lot of practice.

Came up with my own exercise today to help with limb independence. Mainly my left leg wouldn’t do what needed to be done. Had to take it slow until it got programmed into my brain. Didn’t take very long actually. Making good progress. Here’s the exercise:

Without a doubt, this has to have been one of my finest ideas…. Over the last couple of days I have been talking about “getting reps in” on my non-dominant hand by just doing single strokes on a practice pad. It has helped already, even with just the few days I have been doing it.…

I saw a YouTube video a few days ago that has stayed with me. He spoke about focusing on what’s giving you the most trouble. For example, if there’s a difficult section of a song, stop practicing the whole song and only work on the tricky bit. It stuck with me because this was how…

Wanted to do some kick drum workouts to help build my stamina. I cranked it up to 80 bpm, a new top speed. I could barely hang in there, and it was a bit sloppy. I went at it until I was too fatigued. I checked the recording and was shocked that I only lasted…

After doing a whole six and a half minutes of a kick drum exercise yesterday (whoa, I’m really getting up there!), I am suddenly able to adapt it and come up with my own version. So, instead of grinding out four sixteenths, I came up with a simple matrix of a bar of the first…

Last night I practiced the kick drum exercise I learned a few days ago. I did it for a whopping 6.5 minutes at 70 bpm. I say “whopping” because it’s more than I’ve ever done and it felt like a really long time. It felt like I did it for 20 minutes… I was surprised…

Have insomnia this morning. And what’s the best thing to do at 3am when you cant sleep? Practice the drums, of course. I searched online for exercises to help with my kick speed and came up with this Drumeo video. I also moved my foot to the middle of the pedal and that has immediately…

So I found an interesting rock beat that seemed like a great workout for my kicks. And boy howdy. 6 kicks per measure. I also tried recording my acoustic kit for the first time. So many firsts lately, it’s great. This recording is just using one Shure SM58 in the room… I could not hear…