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SickRick
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Does anybody have some good exercises to work on tightness and microtiming? Through some recent recordings I've come to realize that my microtiming is really really really bad. Actually it's so bad that I thought about quitting drums for a while.
It seems like everything I play is not exactly where it should be timingwise. Volume and sound is fine, but things are just not as together as they should. Also, there is the issue of dragging or rushing certain parts - not rushing or dragging the whole tempo, more of a one snare or bass hit is out of time. It's really depressing - all the latest recordings were so incredibly bad that I literally think I have to throw up when I listen back.
Now - this seems to be a genral problem of mine and I kinda realize it once it is happening but cannot do anything about it. Then, when listening back it's like "man, what the hell was I doing?". Like I said: I can feel and hear it when I'm doing it, but there is just absolutely nothing I can do to fight it.
Before everybody starts posting "you just have to practise very slow" etc etc.... I do practise things very slow. Today I worked on the Rosanna groove just as an example - played it at 30bpm for maybe half an hour, then brought the tempo up. Recorded after and it still was just as crappy as the day before and what seems like the 10 years before. And I do this very slow thing all the time - it just doesn't seem to help fighting the looseness in my playing.
Any thoughts / suggestions?
One sidenote on this (and I hope nobody will take this the wrong way, I don't want to get in trouble with people): Please, I really hope for advice from people who may have had similar issues and found ways to overcome them. Please don't post answers if you don't know any. Thanks.
It seems like everything I play is not exactly where it should be timingwise. Volume and sound is fine, but things are just not as together as they should. Also, there is the issue of dragging or rushing certain parts - not rushing or dragging the whole tempo, more of a one snare or bass hit is out of time. It's really depressing - all the latest recordings were so incredibly bad that I literally think I have to throw up when I listen back.
Now - this seems to be a genral problem of mine and I kinda realize it once it is happening but cannot do anything about it. Then, when listening back it's like "man, what the hell was I doing?". Like I said: I can feel and hear it when I'm doing it, but there is just absolutely nothing I can do to fight it.
Before everybody starts posting "you just have to practise very slow" etc etc.... I do practise things very slow. Today I worked on the Rosanna groove just as an example - played it at 30bpm for maybe half an hour, then brought the tempo up. Recorded after and it still was just as crappy as the day before and what seems like the 10 years before. And I do this very slow thing all the time - it just doesn't seem to help fighting the looseness in my playing.
Any thoughts / suggestions?
One sidenote on this (and I hope nobody will take this the wrong way, I don't want to get in trouble with people): Please, I really hope for advice from people who may have had similar issues and found ways to overcome them. Please don't post answers if you don't know any. Thanks.