list of drum techniques!!!!

[juangar1992]

help me make a list of drum techniques please!!!! i know there are a lot, but if at least everyone post a different technique,we'll have a HUGE LIST. i'll start

- double bass
- blast beats
- odd times
- gravity blasts

[Ian Ballard]

There are full threads dealing with all of those things.

What purpose is there to simply name them? How would listing techniques improve anybody's techniques?

I don't follow...

[juangar1992]

just naming them, but if someone wants to explain it it would be great. its just so you can compare your actual technique to a named one, like comparing slide with heel toe.

[LayinDown]

help me make a list of drum techniques please!!!! i know there are a lot, but if at least everyone post a different technique,we'll have a HUGE LIST. i'll start

- double bass
- blast beats
- odd times
- gravity blasts

Play metal much? I don't think these are techniques. When I think techniques, I think Moeller, gladstone, heel-toe, ect. You might be better off doing a google search on various drumming techniques.

[thesilentnoise]

i dont really see the point in naming a bunch of techniques.

if you want information on a certain technique then start a thread devoted just to that.

[schist]

- double bass
- blast beats
- odd times
- gravity blasts
- playing upside-down on a rotating drum riser
- wearing a mask whilst playing

[Big_Philly]

- double bass
- blast beats
- odd times
- gravity blasts
- playing upside-down on a rotating drum riser
- wearing a mask whilst playing
- inverted pentagrams galore

[gusty]

i dont really see the point in naming a bunch of techniques.

Same reason that people start threads asking people to name their favourite drummer. Does naming the drummer make you a better player? No, but people still do it.

[Class A Drummer]

I never considered double bass a technique. Although there are various double bass techniques to be used...

[fazzybOO`]

There are full threads dealing with all of those things.

What purpose is there to simply name them? How would listing techniques improve anybody's techniques?

I don't follow...

so one can look them up.

[Toby_Jackson]

Your short list contains such things as concepts and patterns, but I see no "techniques."

[kellycurrie]

what's a gravity blast?

[jay norem]

Here's a technique I picked up from Spag Mayhem, the drummer for Vomit of the Corpses.
When applying makeup, make sure you don't get any on your hands, and if you do make sure you first wipe it off with Vaseline, then wash your hands in tepid water with anti-bacterial dish-washing liquid.
And don't put on your hockey mask until right before you hit the stage.

[trysthedrummer]

I slide my feet when I'm getting to faster tempos, especially doing double strokes. This is what Virgil Donati and Thomas Lang both do.

[zambizzi]

-pork shooters
-the gilded wine barrel
-unchained poodle
-basket weaving
-the "ouch my foot is cramping" technique

[Ironcobra]

- double bass
- blast beats
- odd times
- gravity blasts
- playing upside-down on a rotating drum riser
- wearing a mask whilst playing
- inverted pentagrams galore
- pork shooters
- the gilded wine barrel
- unchained poodle
- basket weaving
- the "ouch my foot is cramping" technique
- A custom demolition
- riding on a crash
- the forest thump.

[Big_Philly]

But I second the question: what is a gravity blast?
...Dropping your kit from the 15th floor? Is it something you need to wear a mask for...?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZrCYauXlozg <-- is this it? moving both hands in unison while performing a blast beat?