SIMPLE Exercise That Changed My Drum Life Overnight

in this video i want to give you some tips that have literally for some of the stickings that i use doubled my speed like overnight and what it was was a mindset shift so this is a i've been wanting to do this lesson for a while so i really hope you get a lot of use out of it okay and we're going to jump right into it i'm not going to beat around the bush anything like that let's just kind of jump right into it we're going to be talking about the motions of the stick in this lesson that's so so important and we're going to use rudiments but you can apply this to any sticking rudiments are just different stickings a paradiddle is just right left right right it just has a different name right a flam is a certain set of stickings double stroke rolls certain set of stickings so what we want to do is we want to look at the actual motion of the sticks and the notes that they're playing and by looking at that that will inform us how we need to move how those strokes go together and how we can speed that up by not focusing on speed for so many years i focused on speed speed speed speed with my playing and the transformation for me and for my students comes whenever we stop focusing on that because that's not you're just going to hit a wall all the time when we start focusing on the mechanics and the motions of how we're moving that's where the real change comes in you're playing okay and it comes very very quickly okay so we're going to take a couple of different rudiments stickings and look at them we're going to be looking at a paradiddle we're going to be looking at a flam swiss army triplet as another one we may look at a paradiddle diddle but they're all stickings and i'll explain them as we go okay let's start with a phlegm okay a flam is essentially a grace note so a softer note attached to a primary note and it sounds like this right on a drum it's going to sound more like this this is the trick that helped me and it's such a simple thing what i do is i put one hand on my leg and then one hand on the pad or my snare drum and i observed the motions of each hand so the motions for an alternating flam that means we do a right-handed then left-handed the motion i'm just going to do them and observe my motion that's what the right hand is doing now let's look at what the left hand is doing exactly the same thing the right hand is doing now the cool thing about this is this is a molar pumping motion this is a molar two-stroke so we have a downstroke and when we come up there is a natural stroke that can happen with the upstroke it's down and then up and naturally i can make use of that instead of down and pick the stick up myself down and when i pick the stick up there's another stroke that can happen this is essentially a molar two-stroke as i know it or molar pumping motion and we can speed that up so i can do that motion very fast right and at some point you start looking like you're having a connection i can do that motion very fast with each hand but for some reason when i get to flams i'm like okay i got to concentrate on this plan because but if i concentrate instead on interlacing the two hands immediately i understand that it's just this motion in both hands so now all i have to do is focus on interlacing that motion i really am not even listening to the sound much at all until i understand the motion then once i understand the motion then i start listening to the sound and i i level that sound down so before you know my flams i'm sitting there just trying to do the motion and flam now flam now flam now flam and now i know it's like oh wow so it's this fluid type of emotion and if i if i can't do this well i can't play a flam well so i know i need to focus on that i don't need to focus on this to get faster and then all i need to do is start condensing that motion and as i condense that motion i naturally play my flams faster but it's just this in each hand it's just this right let's go to a same-handed flam so instead of alternating we're going same hand phlegm isolate the motion look at that what is that that is what we call the free stroke or the gladstone stroke essentially it is a stroke that is thrown down and we have maximum rebound and all i'm doing is following the stick the stick is just doing that rebound for me so if i know that and then i go okay so when i'm accenting it it's just that when i'm not accenting it's kind of a smaller version of that it's a tap so if i know that and i can play this fast with my free stroke i should be able to play my flams that fast alternating the same thing but it's a different motion that's why when you go to alternating flams you have problems it's not the same motion but if we'll focus on the motion of the stick the speed comes naturally i tell my students all the time in my drum school speed is a natural byproduct of learning something well get the motions down spend a long time doing this then spend a long time trying to interlace them at no point are we focused on speed we're just focused on fluidity of the motion okay so there's an example with alternating hand flams and there's an example with same hand flams right on the same hand flange we've got more of a free stroke or a gladstone stroke i have a whole hand technique 101 and hand technique 102 in my online drum school i go in depth on all of this stuff like it is step by step there's a 14 day free trial uh it's i think it's in the video description or pin comments i don't know just look below the video you'll find it somewhere okay let's move on to something else i don't want to get hung up there okay let's go to paradiddle so i was taking a lesson i still take lessons when i get an opportunity to and many times i'm having my own self evaluated to make sure i'm teaching correct fundamentals so i had a couple lessons with klaus hessler and klaus hessler uh took from jim shape and he's he's part of that whole lineage stanford moeller jim shapin uh and and you know klaus after that uh dom familaro would be another one that's fantastic to watch on that um and so i was taken from an and i was having him observe some of the things i was doing some of the rudiments and things like that and when it came to the paradiddle again it was one of those boom it was a mental shift and he said look the motion of the paradiddle is just a three-stroke molar and many of you are like okay i don't understand what that is okay so let's look at what the motion of the paradiddle is peridot is right left right right an accent on that first one and then an accent on the first single uh left on when you turn it around so it's right left right right left right left left okay so many of us are like right left right right left right left left right but we're like trying to stroke all of this out just with our wrists on on the drum pad right what i what i want you to do is look at that look at the natural move so let's see what the right hand is doing right left right right left right left left it looks a lot like this doesn't it left hand it looks like the same motion and that's what klaus pointed out to me he said it is the same motion as a three-stroke molar a molar stroke is where we have an initiated motion that is kind of a whipping motion it comes down we have a rebound and then when we pick it up that's the third so one rebound up down rebound up down rebound up and we can get that going very fast by utilizing the rebound what's cool is when you interlace those because the other hand is only doing that so when we're doing this see how the speed just comes naturally the speed comes naturally because i have the motion down well and if i can play this motion this fast i should be able to play single strokes that fast in that accent pattern right so that's the power of that motion you're like stephen that's not a paradiddle watch so it's the same motion what we do is we start that motion and i'm just focused on getting that motion down and what i want to do is put a diddle on the second right hand right so if we do that on both hands it's hard to do that on my leg if we do that on both hands this is the basic motion remember we're just focused on motions not the notes now put and put an uneven crushed diddle out of time same motion now start to smooth that out notice the motion of my hands the motion of my hands is not changing what's changing is i'm stretching the diddle on a little bit and controlling it a little bit more starting here so i know if i can do this motion pretty fast i should be able to do my paradiddles pretty fast and that's a boom that's an instantaneous change that happens by focusing on the motions on the stickings that's why i'm so dead set on learning good fundamentals i'm not a technique hound it is to serve the music but at some point it's like okay let's step back and see what we're doing what we're doing wrong let's look at another one let's look at um well now that we're on paradiddles let's look at a paradiddle diddle right left right right left left let's isolate the hand and see the motion they do uh-oh what is that right there it's just two strokes but i'm diddling one that's that pumping motion again isn't it and if i do this and then begin to smooth that out what we have is instead of this so if we add those diddles and don't smooth them out so once you start smoothing them out it's the same motion okay you're just adding at the bottom of there an adjustment to that motion yes there's some adjustment to it but that's the motion of it okay okay let's do one more and this is this is the one that oh my gosh it was like i just sat there and i remember looking at the pad going hold on wait a minute it's just double strokes and then immediately and i was like if i can play my double strokes this fast i should be able to play this rudiment this fast remember rudiment equals sticking that's all that means okay so we're going to do a swiss army triplet we learned what a flam is what a swiss army triplet is it's a right accented flam right left it's the same hand rudiment it doesn't the sticking on a paradiddle turns around right left right right left right left left every time you play it this one is the same hand sticking remember we had a hand to hand flams or we could do same hand flams this is a same hand rudiment so to turn it around we have to play something like a flamma diddle or something or a windmill to turn that around that rudiment is that and for years i was just stuck because i was like right right left right right left right left right just kind of in this hard spot of like sticking sticking sticking sticking sticking that's all i was thinking look at the motions and i heard people call it a dirty roll for years and i didn't understand that it's a dirty roll because it's essentially double strokes overlapping on each other and i didn't understand this so here we go i'm going to isolate it oh snap look that's just a double stroke now look let's isolate the left hand oh my gosh it's just a double stroke it's just double strokes it seems so much more complicated that's why you don't learn a swiss army triplet before you learn a double stroke roll there's a sequence to learning all of these because the stickings interweave now if i can play my double stroke roll that's what i was sitting there and i'm like okay bro so if i can play my double strokes like i was doing math or something you know i had this epiphany i'm like if i could do my double stroke roll this fast because at that point i was like this with my swiss army triplets and i'm like if i can do my double stroke this fast and it's just double strokes i should be able to do my swiss army triplet that fast and it took me a second i was like okay hold on it's just double strokes and then all of a sudden it started speeding up and i was like oh this makes sense oh it's just double strokes that's why they call it a dirty roll right immediately almost doubled my speed on that sticking because i paid attention to the mechanics of the sticking and what we can do is we can go from a double stroke roll and we can morph into a swiss army triplet if i do that on the snare let's get some snare action in here if i do that on the snare we got a double stroke roll [Music] and i'm going to start interweaving them i'm going to start klaus hessler does a great teaching on compressing the rudiments bringing them together so we have double stroke roll see how the doubles don't speed up or slow down the doubles are going the same pace i'm i'm messing with the placement of them and overlapping them you can really hear when i do it on two sound sources so we have it like this [Music] right [Music] and if we keep going they become a single a unison and a single so if we go a swiss army triplet and if you keep compressing it it actually comes out the other side and becomes a left-handed swiss army triple and then it becomes a left-handed double stroke roll it's it and then you can compress it back the other way if you're just really bored um so that is that is what doubled my speed on things like the paradiddle swiss army triplet flams just literally sitting there and going wait it's this motion hold on so it's not just hours and hours and hours it's just observing and then spending yes you may need to spend hours on that motion but once you get that motion down then you're able to do the others and this is why i'm so hard on my students about hey go through the technique hand technique 101 and 102 go through all 16 of those lessons you're going to come out at the other end and you're going to understand why those mechanics make so much sense not just in rudiments but in stickings in general

Channel: Stephen Taylor

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Length: 15min 40sec (940 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 18 2021