Hi there,
I've been playing on a kit for roughly a month now, so I want to make sure I'm doing things right before I build any bad habits. Hence this post.
I think I've been playing my bass drum with heel-up technique (I try to rest on the balls of my feet -> lift up heel -> land on balls of feet -> hit drum), and it's been going well when I have enough time to execute all of these steps. However, when I play some of our faster songs (I'm in an indie-rock band), that go up to ~190bmp, and I have to do two bass-hits in a row (on quarter notes), this technique becomes very difficult and I get sloppy. Right now I'm just bouncing on the balls of my feet to get that double hit in, but I've been practicing with this for a week or two now and it's still proving difficult. I can do it at the beginning of practice, but after a while it starts to get bad. I'l talking about specifically these double hits, here. I feel like my technique is off, because it shouldn't be this hard to do.
Furthermore, I have found that my hands are significantly stronger than my feet in terms of timing. In fact, whenever I get sloppy, it's my feet.
In addition to this, I notice that my right arm (hitting the hat) is fatiguing pretty quickly when I play these fast songs, and I can't keep up the ~190bmp tempo for more than a few minutes on the hat. I don't get a lot of bounce on mine, though things improve slightly if I use more fingers, My ride is angled down and I can play that much easier than the hats.
Are these normal problems I should just accept and work on improving, or am I looking at this the wrong way?
Thanks!
I've been playing on a kit for roughly a month now, so I want to make sure I'm doing things right before I build any bad habits. Hence this post.
I think I've been playing my bass drum with heel-up technique (I try to rest on the balls of my feet -> lift up heel -> land on balls of feet -> hit drum), and it's been going well when I have enough time to execute all of these steps. However, when I play some of our faster songs (I'm in an indie-rock band), that go up to ~190bmp, and I have to do two bass-hits in a row (on quarter notes), this technique becomes very difficult and I get sloppy. Right now I'm just bouncing on the balls of my feet to get that double hit in, but I've been practicing with this for a week or two now and it's still proving difficult. I can do it at the beginning of practice, but after a while it starts to get bad. I'l talking about specifically these double hits, here. I feel like my technique is off, because it shouldn't be this hard to do.
Furthermore, I have found that my hands are significantly stronger than my feet in terms of timing. In fact, whenever I get sloppy, it's my feet.
In addition to this, I notice that my right arm (hitting the hat) is fatiguing pretty quickly when I play these fast songs, and I can't keep up the ~190bmp tempo for more than a few minutes on the hat. I don't get a lot of bounce on mine, though things improve slightly if I use more fingers, My ride is angled down and I can play that much easier than the hats.
Are these normal problems I should just accept and work on improving, or am I looking at this the wrong way?
Thanks!