monster chops

[tidge87]

Well, i see all these professsional drummers, and they go really fast and putting in accents and seemingly do it with no effort. I want chops like these, but do they just come in time or do i have to work at it?

[Drummerboy3940]

you will definately have to work unless you are just gifted

[pdp 9091]

Well, i see all these professsional drummers, and they go really fast and putting in accents and seemingly do it with no effort. I want chops like these, but do they just come in time or do i have to work at it?


They come with both working at it and time. You work over different rudiments over a period of time, practicing, getting faster every day ect... and you will gain agility in the arms and wrists most imporantly to pull off complex paraddidle fills and so forth.

[Waterjet]

Time spent practicing is wasted without some technique guidence. Go to Tigerbill.com and read his Lessons for free called.....Building Monster Chops. If you're just starting out this can save you loads of wasted time trying to develop your hands.


Waterjet

[Zildjian232]

Well, i see all these professsional drummers, and they go really fast and putting in accents and seemingly do it with no effort. I want chops like these, but do they just come in time or do i have to work at it?



ha i wish they just came to you, that would be great. and i agree that you need guidence when you practice, otherwise you waste your time. If your able to get into a marching band or drumline doooo ittt. I did Yakomoto drumline and my highschool marchingband and that was the best thign that ever happend to my drumming.

Of the easist ways to get speed is to do 8's which is 8 on each hand.They are just eigth notes 1a2a3a4a. you just switch off. and of course you do this with a metronome and dooooo ittt aaaaa lotttttt. i usally practice while watching tv(mostly family guy)

i learned an interesting way to increase your speed at a drumclinic. You basically put a shirt on your snare drum and play with that. there is less bounce, and you continue adding on cloth. you will work your muscles harder therefor you will get faster. In the clinic i saw the guy just do singles but im sure you can other things as well

[Zildjian232]

o and if you want more exercises then just message me or wahtever ill tell you more. Im just to lazy to type them all out

[Scatman]

tiger bill has the best site for gladstone info

[tomgrosset]

Well, i see all these professsional drummers, and they go really fast and putting in accents and seemingly do it with no effort. I want chops like these, but do they just come in time or do i have to work at it?

You should look into the moeller technique.

[d.c.drummer]

the more you play with music (espically along with good drummers, stuff outside of your genre, and in a band) and\ the more stuff you'll pick up to put in your repitiuor. soon it will be as second nature as the first drumbeat you learned.

i'm no drum god but the chops that i have i learned from playing music and expirementing. For example i practice with a loop running in my head like the one in this video JoJo Mayer vid (http://drummerworld.com/Videos/JojomayerMD2005.html) and i practice doing variations on that (sorta like JoJo did but not even half as good). Try playing "Mary Had a little Lamb" in various genres and play it slow, putting in chops here and there. You get more ideas that way. You'll find stuff doing that you never new you could do.

Don't set out to be a chops monster though, People who are all about chops (at the risk of sounding corny) end up sounding choppy. They can add to music but just as easy, they can subtact.

for some music choices maybe outside your genre you can pm me.