To any drummers

[bds0688 10+ year member]

When you first started out, what method did you use to make your feet work independently from your hands and each other? I can get it once in awhile, but I'm just wondering if there's any special techniques. To clarify, I can do some moderate stuff. For example.

Quarter, eighth or sixteenth*assuming my ****ing pedal cooperates* on the bass, while doing slower or faster on the snare. Either foot or hand keeping tempo.

What I mean is specifically, tricky segments or at least patterns.

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[95ZJ 10+ year member]

I play Rock Band drums on Expert and 5 star most songs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif.

 

[cshaw 10+ year member]

although i took lessons, i literally learned by listening and playing, nirvana, offspring and 311 to my loud *** stereo at home. just play some easy stuff you already know by heart, and learn it on drums. best advise i can give. till you demand more challenging music. then its just practice for days.

oh and dont **** with rock band! its way off, trying to delay for electronics ****!

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

although i took lessons, i literally learned by listening and playing, nirvana, offspring and 311 to my loud *** stereo at home. just play some easy stuff you already know by heart, and learn it on drums. best advise i can give. till you demand more challenging music. then its just practice for days.

Yeah, along with a new kick pedal, looking for some headphones. I have my entire library at my disposal, but the drums are far away from the speakers.

 

[bass-aholic 10+ year member]

practice, practice, practice! i took lessons to and at first it was impossible for me to seperate out what my feet and hands had to do but my teacher tought me to seperate the music apart. i would play one part until i could do it fine like the bass drum, then add in one hand, and so on until i could do it no problem and keep doing that until i was playing with bolth hands and feet.

 

[cshaw 10+ year member]

for headphones, i would look into sennheiser. i loved them for tracking drums.

 

[95ZJ 10+ year member]

Grado SR-225's are WONDERFUL for rock.

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

So many choices. The set I have now is absolute rubbish. I'm only investing in a pedal because the one I have now is small, uncomfortable, unresponsive, and about to fall apart. I'm going to save for a full set once I have my shit on track.

I'm beginning by practicing some Offspring, and a few Dethklok songs. They have a lot of double bass, but the snare/cymbal stuff is pretty basic.

 

[cshaw 10+ year member]

i have a pearl forum set, with stock pedal, but upgraded kicker, sounds great when recorded. system of a down is pretty fun to play/learn to. but maybe not if your just getting into it. having fun and jamming it out with other people is where its at. depending on which bands/ who you play with will influence you the most from the beginning.

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

learn to play like Danny Carey and Carter Beauford. Oh and Stewart Copeland.

 

[95ZJ 10+ year member]

Stewart Copeland = technical Jesus

Neil Pert and Mike Portnoy are too shabby either.

 

[funkyab 10+ year member]

if you really want to get GOOD,,,, do it right... begin by learning the 40 essential rudiments. learn them properly with your hands first then start to use them around the whole kit. IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO READ. drum rudiments are to drums as scales are to non percussion instruments.

http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments.html

check out the book "advanced techniques for the modern drummer by jim chapin. is basically the bible for beginning jazz drummers. master that and you are going places.

another good set of books down the road is "essential styles" you need to learn all styles.

as far as the pedal goes, DW 5000 is basically the industry standard and probably the most reliable pedal there is. I have one on all 4 of my kits. There are more technical pedals such as the axis but as you are a beginner it will take years before your technique is ready for a pedal like that.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

i took no lessons and just play as often as i can trying to come up with new things (beats, techniques, etc)

 

[pilyin 10+ year member]

To get my hands and feet to work independently I always take the beat I'm trying to do and play it really slow. Slow to the point that I can get it, then gradually pick up speed.

 

[GabeC 10+ year member]

if you really want to get GOOD,,,, do it right... begin by learning the 40 essential rudiments. learn them properly with your hands first then start to use them around the whole kit. IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO READ. drum rudiments are to drums as scales are to non percussion instruments. http://www.vicfirth.com/education/rudiments.html

check out the book "advanced techniques for the modern drummer by jim chapin. is basically the bible for beginning jazz drummers. master that and you are going places.

another good set of books down the road is "essential styles" you need to learn all styles.

as far as the pedal goes, DW 5000 is basically the industry standard and probably the most reliable pedal there is. I have one on all 4 of my kits. There are more technical pedals such as the axis but as you are a beginner it will take years before your technique is ready for a pedal like that.

^^^

i'm still pretty new to drumming myself but the above post is what you need to listen to.

i know you've heard it a million times but to get good all you gotta do is practice PRACTICE PRACTICE.

idk what kind of music you are playing but once you get decent you are gonna wanna buy new equipment and it can get EXPENSIVE but one thing i can say is don't skimp out on hardware like pedals, cymbals stands etc....but once you start buying cymbals will start costing $200+ each, you'll want new heads. Also i wouldn't worry about double bass pedaling just yet. You'd be amazed how fast you can get with a lot of practice on a single pedal.

keep practicing, also a good drumming site i've been on is http://www.drumsmylife.com