Colerosity
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I've been playing for a while, and I have a good handle on independence, rudiments, grooves, improvisation, and soloing, but all of my playing suffers from 2 problems - macro and micro timing, probably from years of never playing with a click and a teacher who never pointed it out. My consistency suffers as well.
My macrotiming is off in that I'm often unintentionally pushing or dragging the beat, and if I focus too hard on a large fill, by the end of it I'll be maybe even a 16th note off.
w/r/t microtiming, I often find that when I record myself I can hear my kick drum hitting off a tad, I'll do an accent that sounds off, etc.
What I've been doing:
Recording my practice (usually just whatever groove comes into my head) with a click or song on, then listening and watching w/o the click to assess. If something sounded off, play it all again until it's perfect.
Recording my practice with a click on that turns off every 4th bar so I can try and totally nail my fills - then listen, etc. Be more mindful, and if I can't pull it off, simplify it until it's impossible to do wrong, then turn up the complexity.
This is excruciatingly tedious, but it seems that the more I examine my playing the more I hear major imperfections throughout. Is this the only way? What other methods, practice routines, or ideas might help?
Thanks,
Some guy
Edit: I also have a large collection of books I could work through including the entire Patterns series, funk studies, 4-way, etc etc etc.
My macrotiming is off in that I'm often unintentionally pushing or dragging the beat, and if I focus too hard on a large fill, by the end of it I'll be maybe even a 16th note off.
w/r/t microtiming, I often find that when I record myself I can hear my kick drum hitting off a tad, I'll do an accent that sounds off, etc.
What I've been doing:
Recording my practice (usually just whatever groove comes into my head) with a click or song on, then listening and watching w/o the click to assess. If something sounded off, play it all again until it's perfect.
Recording my practice with a click on that turns off every 4th bar so I can try and totally nail my fills - then listen, etc. Be more mindful, and if I can't pull it off, simplify it until it's impossible to do wrong, then turn up the complexity.
This is excruciatingly tedious, but it seems that the more I examine my playing the more I hear major imperfections throughout. Is this the only way? What other methods, practice routines, or ideas might help?
Thanks,
Some guy
Edit: I also have a large collection of books I could work through including the entire Patterns series, funk studies, 4-way, etc etc etc.