greenstar323
Senior Member
I recently got back into playing drums over the past year and a half after taking a 2 year hiatus from not picking up drumsticks at all. (I've been playing in total about 17 years.) I joined a band which has helped tremendously. Except I felt like every time I went to sit down at my kit to practice I just ended up playing the same crap over and over.
I broke out stick control and worked that a little bit. Although it's rather embarrassing to admit I would play the stuff in Modern Drummer and Drum! just to have something new and different to work on.
I recently watched a drumeo with Rich Redmond (who is awesome btw) and tried playing his money beats. OMG I had trouble with four on the floor! Something about hitting the bass and snare together threw me off. I have since mastered it but it made me realize a lot of downfalls in the basics of drumming. I wonder if I "lost it" a little bit when I took a break.
Today I broke out a double pedal to work on my left foot and did the first page of stick control... at 60 bpm!
I have a long way to go. Think I will pick up Gary Chaffee's techniques book and the other one with the fatback exercises. Learning new things is fun!
I broke out stick control and worked that a little bit. Although it's rather embarrassing to admit I would play the stuff in Modern Drummer and Drum! just to have something new and different to work on.
I recently watched a drumeo with Rich Redmond (who is awesome btw) and tried playing his money beats. OMG I had trouble with four on the floor! Something about hitting the bass and snare together threw me off. I have since mastered it but it made me realize a lot of downfalls in the basics of drumming. I wonder if I "lost it" a little bit when I took a break.
Today I broke out a double pedal to work on my left foot and did the first page of stick control... at 60 bpm!
I have a long way to go. Think I will pick up Gary Chaffee's techniques book and the other one with the fatback exercises. Learning new things is fun!