just had to tell someone.

blindboy · Big Pit Bull Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 376 Location: Nod

I bought a practice kick pad about two weeks ago and ive been playing it like crazy. Tonight I decided to see how long I could play as fast as I could with my right foot. I played quarter notes at 350bpm for a few seconds over 10 minutes. With my left foot I held the same tempo for five minutes. I know this isn't a big accomplishment or anything but before I bought this practice pad there is no way I could have held that tempo for any amount of time with my left foot. oh well back to it :p
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shaneohack · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 2:20 am Post subject:

Nice job. Sounds like a big accomplishment to me. Keep up the good work. Get that left up there with the right. Cool

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blindboy · Big Pit Bull Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 376 Location: Nod

believe me im working on it. ive been averaging 5hrs a day three days a week just on my kick stuff.
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Drummin_Dan · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:44 am Post subject:

5hrs on kick...man, I'd get bored after about 5 min. I'll have time in the holidays to practice stuff. If I spent 5 hrs on everything I needed to practice, I'd never leave my drumkit... If you stagger practicing to about 20 minute periods I find it's a good asset. If you go too long, you start blanking out, and you just forget stupid things and start practicing something wrong. When you practice wrong, you start learning something the wrong way etc. I do 20 minute periods. Maybe a couple times a day, sometimes I don't practice, but depending on how I feel with my playing. I still need practice pads however. Practicing tends to get interesting when everyone has to listen to it Very Happy

. Can you change the tension on practice pads? My bass drum has almost no action, and I've tried a bassdrum practice pad and it has quite a bit of action compared to my own bassdrum.

blindboy · Big Pit Bull Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 376 Location: Nod

I didn't mean 5 continuous hours. I work three 16hr shifts and I kinda spread my playing out over that shift. As far as I know you can't change the tension on practice pad. Although I could be wrong. Looking at it you could definitely take the head off. Maybe you can. *shrugs* something I should look in to Smile

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Drummin_Dan · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 12:44 pm Post subject:

I know on the rubber ones you can't, but on some more expensive ones, they use an actual "head" per say, so you can adjust the action. Alot of exercises on drums I founf can also be achieved in activities outside of drumming. I usually find that practicing coordination is usually the most important. Timing is also another thing. Drummers sound sloppy with bad timing. You may do a fill or a shot, and it'll be a hair (64th) off of the beat, and it sticks out like a sore thumb. I've been taught that height is most important in consistency, and in practicing, I've found that it's entirely true. Even for playing bassdrum, always have to watch when practicing, even ordinary beats, the volume depends on what position the beater is in, and keeping the beater position consisten for each stroke will sound cleaner and be on time. It's alot to watch for, but eventually it becomes more feel. I'm not concerned about speed as much as I am about getting my playing solid before moving up. I'm guessing you might've worked on this. If so, I'm ranting. If not, you've learned something new Very Happy

blindboy · Big Pit Bull Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 376 Location: Nod

thats great advise Drummin_Dan. I started playing drums in school when I was about 12 and continued on through highschool. If it was one thing they preached to us it was "MAKE ALL OF YOUR STROKES SOUND THE SAME"
There is nothing like the sound of a drummer with awesome timing and consitancey. Even the simplest of beats sound great. Im not really that concerned with speed myself I was just testing my stamina. Smile

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Drummin_Dan · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 1:07 pm Post subject:

If you want to test stamina, I'd suggest trying a marathon Very Happy

... I found I built stamina through practicing stick heights and stuff. Drumming Corps is insane about stick heights. I'm not in a drumline, but my drum teacher is basically training me for it. I dunno that I'll join one, but it's nice to learn alot. As far as listening to "sound". Listening is something you pick up on after you get used to heights. When you play certain heights and practice with them, the sound become more familiar, and it's easier to remain consistant.

chopster06 · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 4:48 pm Post subject: Have you ever?

Hi guys. How's it going? I heard ya'll talking about drum corps and decided to put a voice in. Yeah, I'm a sophomore this year and center snare for my high school drumline and was wondering if there are any other drumline peoples on this here site.

Talk about endurance... Try playing a double-stroke drum roll on your practice pad with Vic Firth Dennis Delucias for over an hour without stopping. That'll give you some mad chops!

By the way, I'm a girl! Isn't that just peachy. My record for longest drum-roll at the moment is 1 hour and 22 minutes on a Yamaha SFZ marching snare.

Hilikus311 · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 8:48 pm Post subject:

I think i could actually match you hour and 22 minutes myslef... I don'r play in the band or anything like that but I got some mad double stroke rolls down... Imagin what you can do with a simple hand technique... Also, how fast was your roll?
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Drummin_Dan · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 9:17 pm Post subject:

ooo....

bringing on the skepticism...

probably prettyfast....I'm guessing 130-140bpm...32nd stroke value..

chopster06 · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 5:41 pm Post subject: My Roll

You see, the only reason I stopped was because the person I was competing with dropped out ,and after about a minute of rubbing in how he dropped out, my friend came to school to pick me up. I was invited over my friend's house for dinner before I had to come back to school for symphony two hours later.

The speed of the roll ranged from about 110 to 152, but was generally at around 138. (32nd note value)

The reason for this large tempo fluctuation is so we had room to challenge eachother tempo-wise. You know, like if he dragged the tempo down, I could pump it back up as a challenge. Vise-versa, and of course we had to clean to eachother.