burn-4
Senior Member
Hi guys,
Trying to really hit practising hard this year and improve my drumming as much as possible!
Problem I'm having is how to plan out my practise time.
I know what I want to practise (bass drum technique, independence, shuffles, jazz and left hand + foot strengthening) and I have various exercises for improving each (bass drum for example; playing a samba pattern with the feet at various tempos or shuffling with the bass drum and moving around the placement of the 2 triplet partials) but I struggle to have some cohesion to it all.
Basically I do say a samba for 5 or 10 minutes then think "yeah this is sounding ok" then sort of leave it at that- it's not like I'm aiming for something and once I reach it I am like "YEAH ok I made some real progress on that!"
Also once I have done one thing like the samba I then don't know should I play the triplet thing for another 10 minutes say? I have loads of things to practise but can't seem to get a structured programme where I am doing x minutes on this exercise then x minutes on the next and making steady progress on all fronts.
In the end I just start playing to covers and trying out new fills (a valid part of practise I know but not great at moving forward technically).
Anyway sorry to ramble just curious to see if any of you guys have the same problem and what sort of ways you have counteracted them?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
Trying to really hit practising hard this year and improve my drumming as much as possible!
Problem I'm having is how to plan out my practise time.
I know what I want to practise (bass drum technique, independence, shuffles, jazz and left hand + foot strengthening) and I have various exercises for improving each (bass drum for example; playing a samba pattern with the feet at various tempos or shuffling with the bass drum and moving around the placement of the 2 triplet partials) but I struggle to have some cohesion to it all.
Basically I do say a samba for 5 or 10 minutes then think "yeah this is sounding ok" then sort of leave it at that- it's not like I'm aiming for something and once I reach it I am like "YEAH ok I made some real progress on that!"
Also once I have done one thing like the samba I then don't know should I play the triplet thing for another 10 minutes say? I have loads of things to practise but can't seem to get a structured programme where I am doing x minutes on this exercise then x minutes on the next and making steady progress on all fronts.
In the end I just start playing to covers and trying out new fills (a valid part of practise I know but not great at moving forward technically).
Anyway sorry to ramble just curious to see if any of you guys have the same problem and what sort of ways you have counteracted them?
Thanks in advance,
Ben