Category: Drumming

Here’s me doing some more Basic Punk Beat, but I’ve stepped it up to 125 bpm. Doing this with heal down. I noticed I really wanted to do it heal up since it seems easier and is louder. Right now I’m not sure what I should be doing, but heal down is harder. So, since…

Went through my old bookmarks looking for interesting things to learn on the drums and came across this video on punk beats. Here’s my attempt at the basic beat. It’s double time, which to me sounds like four on the floor with the snare on the “and”. And the hi hat on everything. I worked…

Practicing another tip from the fabulous Sound Like Emma, the build up. Simultaneous 16ths on floor tom and snare, until beat 3, then on “and” do a kick, flam, kick, then kick+crash on Beat 1. Here’s my first practicing session…

Just discovered this exercise and I want to document it so I dont forget. This is 2 beats of triplets and 2 beats of 16ths. Also, trying to accent the beginning of each triplet. It really messes with my mind when I have to do that at the same time as my left foot on…

Going to try to post my practice session. Emphasis on try. It occurred to me that it would be really cool if I shared early practice sessions so that as the years go by I could see my improvements. Only problem is almost never do anything in years. I get bored with repetitious things and…

I’m still a beginning drummer. And after taking a several year break from learning, I’m picking it up again. Tonight I practiced Bonham Triplets for the first time. It was very awkward. Came out pretty rough. I practiced with a metronome and got up to about 100bpm. After that it started breaking down. I did…

Man, I am crashing out here. Something happened to me today and I don’t exactly know what pushed me over the edge. But I can see that I am overwhelming myself with political news. I’m absorbing too much negative crap. The internet is like a giant funnel that sucks up every piece of rage bait…