snowdog2112 said:Does anyone else have the problem of being able to reach one speed one day and not being able to reach it again the next day? I've been practicing a lot with a metronome and on average I can only do sixteenth notes at 138 bpm, but one day I got to 160. Now I can't get back to even 152. Does anyone else have this problem?
Cephalic said:It might just be an issue of you being more warmed up some days than on others.
C_H said:well im strange i lean to one side when doing a blast beat i find i get more speed that way, well when i do i can do blasts of up to 280 bpm well.... according to my reader thats the speed
Speedy said:Hey MFB isnt that something danny carey does to?
tambian89 said:To everyone: I am playing 16th notes with both feet. So, I am playing 260 16th notes per minute. I play 8th notes with each individual foot (which does go fast anyway). I'm so sorry! I didn't even realize until you guys posted giving me these crazy numbers like 1100 bpm and stuff. I can go 260, but I mixed up 16th notes and 8th notes. I timed it yesterday and it is 260 bpm, 8th notes with each foot. I got the aid of the music teacher at my school to have me go with the metronome and only one foot ( the drum set is single bass and no double pedal) and I was keeping time perfectly, but in 8th notes! I was kinda eager to just get the exercise up and didn't really read over this first part.
Sorry!
- Marc
B.G. said:Ive had double bass pedals for a month now and I can play a few songs but I want to get faster. I play heel down because I always tend to lean really far back if I play heel up. What should I do to play faster?
Chip said:Warning; long post. It's either just me rambling, or finn's long-postedness has rubbed off on me.
Yes, practicing this stuff slow really helps. Try and get it as slow as you can without losing most of the momentum. Start at level one, and just work on it. Don't rush it, this is a key point. Learn good technique, don't learn a bad one and only practice it at high speeds.
I realised last night that my foot [both feet] does not accept the rebound at all (barely). Luckily, I've only been playing for about 3 years, and haven't focused too drastically on my feet, so it shan't be too hard to correct it. A huge key to success: do not rush speed. Speed comes through relaxation, the notes will sound faster if they are clean, too. Just send a lot of time getting even (haha, "don't get fast, get even" - the speed demon's motto) strokes, clean strokes. Once you get this down well enough, start practicing accents for control etc. Then knock the BPM up a bit.
Don't rush it- your muscles and drumming will thank you for it. I think you will find you will have a lot more fun and find drumming a lot more fun if you are relaxed. Imagine rolling down the kit (or on the bass drum), spreading notes evenly like butter, beautiful even sounding notes, almost effortlessly. Then imagine struggling to belt out uneven, sloppy notes, all tense, at the same speed. Picture this, and then choose which method you would prefer; Rushing and tense, or taking it slowly and relaxed and even.
The reason I'm trying to emphasize this is because I know how hard it can be to resist the temptation of rushing. Just realise that going slow, means you will be cleaner and faster.
I hope that helps.
I don't mean to speak down to you here but you do realize that the preceding part of this "The words of the prophets were written on the studio walls" was a spin off of Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence Lyric, "The words of the prophets were written on the subway walls".rendezvous_drummer said:Yea man, have you seen his dvd's? He talks about drums while walking through forests. Some of his lyrics though make no sense at all. For example, in "Spirit of the Radio", when the song is near the end, Geddy Lee sings "Echos of the sound of salesmen, of salesmen, OHHHHHHHH SALESMEN!". Hilarious part but odd. Great lyricist none the less.
And, I believe, this line refers to the growing commercialism of music (which would explode in the 1980s) at the time in which Rush wasn't cranking out hit song after hit song. As Frank Zappa put it in his book, "and turn up the handclaps....."rendezvous_drummer said:Some of his lyrics though make no sense at all. For example, in "Spirit of the Radio", when the song is near the end, Geddy Lee sings "Echos of the sound of salesmen, of salesmen, OHHHHHHHH SALESMEN!". Hilarious part but odd.