MikeM
Platinum Member
I would suggest exercises that promote continuity of playing. Running over rudiments would help with this since 16 16th notes will be required for each bar of 4/4. This will go a long way toward understanding the sticking required to make sure fills add up properly. Learning to read charts will help to visually cement the idea that structure and a certain predictability is important. And in this case, it's probably not a bad idea to put on some headphones and start playing along to some covers until they can be done without a huge number of mistakes.Mike, just out of interest what practice/exercises would you suggest he does to help him sort out the issues that you pointed to?
It just sounds to me like there's this drumming going on that doesn't have any direction and at this point I can't conceive of a musical genre where it would be fitting. But like I said, I think there is some potential there - I just don't think he needs to be reinventing the wheel as much as he is. Studios are an unforgiving environment. Once you commit something to tape, it's there for the ages. You really want to put down drumming that's not only to the best of your ability, but that meets the needs of the music.
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