Crispykids
Junior Member
There's a drummer named Zach Hill who has managed to get his single kick speed up to pretty fast 16th notes even though it is choppy at times. How do you even start training your foot to do this?
There's a drummer named Zach Hill who has managed to get his single kick speed up to pretty fast 16th notes even though it is choppy at times. How do you even start training your foot to do this?
A good exercise that I got from one of Joe Morello's videos is this: play one bar of quarters, followed by one bar of 8ths, then one bar of 8th note triplets, and then one bar of 16ths. Keep repeating that over and over again to a metronome, and gradually bump up the metronome marking, as long as you can do so while still keeping it even sounding. Morello recommended doing it ten minutes a day. I found it was a great way to build up my single bass drum pedal speed. When I practice it, I'll alternate between doing it heels up and heels down. I usually start at quarter note equals 60, and try to get it up to 100 or higher by the end of the ten minutes (I'll also usually play quarters or 8ths on the hi-hat while doing this).