Doing the slow tempos for the first week to get acclimated. Did the accents, rhythm exercise (5 & 7 still rough;descending through the rhythms is more difficult than ascending). Also single stroke page 1 & 2 – slowest tempos.
Nice work, Kurt… Accents are the key to a great touch and feel. they train you to be set up for each hit and conserve energy. When this becomes a habit in your playing, everything else starts to fall into place.
These are something I plan on revisiting and adding some slower tempos. When I did these workouts in the past, I was going out live to my students and all of them were at least at this tempo, so it made sense. Now that I am expanding beyond the private students, I plan on adding some way slower beginner tempos.
It helps to really practice your full strokes individually. If you don’t have those down, then 11-14 will be a real problem. If you need to play it over and over, there’s actually no physical way to make that sound happen (3 loud + 1soft), at least in a real-world tempo. Most drummers just ignore that series of accents. lol
LOL… I’ve been there. I first did these after going through Gary Chaffee’s Sticking Patterns book, and pulling my hair out every day. He had the positions listed, but didn’t really go into too much detail about developing each strokes. There was like a page in the beginning that quickly broke it down. That’s when I started developing the accent chart on my own. Once I got it, that book made so much more sense.
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Doing the slow tempos for the first week to get acclimated. Did the accents, rhythm exercise (5 & 7 still rough;descending through the rhythms is more difficult than ascending). Also single stroke page 1 & 2 – slowest tempos.
Nice work, Kurt… Accents are the key to a great touch and feel. they train you to be set up for each hit and conserve energy. When this becomes a habit in your playing, everything else starts to fall into place.
From 11 to the end is problematic. Might have to practice those as quarter notes at 60 bpm.
These are something I plan on revisiting and adding some slower tempos. When I did these workouts in the past, I was going out live to my students and all of them were at least at this tempo, so it made sense. Now that I am expanding beyond the private students, I plan on adding some way slower beginner tempos.
The 50 bpm was helpful, but at 60 bpm I’m still clumsy with 11-14.
Cool… I will be adding 75 and 105 this week. As a contrast, I’ll be doing those in the same format… half-time/double-time.
It helps to really practice your full strokes individually. If you don’t have those down, then 11-14 will be a real problem. If you need to play it over and over, there’s actually no physical way to make that sound happen (3 loud + 1soft), at least in a real-world tempo. Most drummers just ignore that series of accents. lol
I’m not going to ignore them but they might make me tear what’s left of my hair out!
LOL… I’ve been there. I first did these after going through Gary Chaffee’s Sticking Patterns book, and pulling my hair out every day. He had the positions listed, but didn’t really go into too much detail about developing each strokes. There was like a page in the beginning that quickly broke it down. That’s when I started developing the accent chart on my own. Once I got it, that book made so much more sense.