sting- seven days

[handito]

Hey guys

Last week my drum teacher gave me the groove for 7 days with Sting as a homework exercise for next week. I really enjoy the groove and am completely amazed by the genius Vinnie Colaiuta. However, I can't get my right hand up to speed and play those 16 notes! Do you have any sugestions on what to do because it really frustrates me.

Thanks

P.S

Do you guys know the exact tempo of the song?

[Drummer Karl]

Yes, that`s the actual hard part of the tune.
For getting more relaxed I can highly recommend to practice your single strokes and I`d check out everything which requires rebound and finger work.

I personally like to work with these excercices:

http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments/01singlestrokeroll.html
http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments/05triplestrokeroll.html

Also maybe this video can help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFZfOLbnBwI
Take care of the motion you`re doing.

Practice that in front of a mirror regulary and start slowly. You can pretty easily find your personal border with those single stroke excercices, practice up to this certain tempo.

The Tempo of "Seven Days" is 184 Beats (Quarters in my transcription, it`s measured double time) Per Minute.

Karl

[handito]

Hey Karl

Thanks a lot, you are the man ;-)

You write that I can find my own personal border with the single strokes and practise up to that. By sayin practise up to it, do you then mean that you can't go further than the border, or do you mean practise so that I can get faster than my personal border at the moment.

Thanks

[Drummer Karl]

I referred to those MIDI files. It starts with a slow tempo and the speed increases about 4 bpm every time. Start and after some time you`ll notice where your current border is, meaning the tempo where you can not do it anymore.

Start practicing at slow tempi, take a mirror and watch yourself, the motions you`re doing. Increase the tempo then and do that conditional training.

Hope I could help a bit...

Karl

[keaganobrien]

Make sure your hats are low enough to properly play the accents. With most people, I find if they're too high there tends to be not much of a difference between the unaccented notes and the accented ones- the accent is key in this groove.