Hello Huei, let me start off by saying that I believe that you covered a lot of important exercises for beginning marching percussionists. In fact, my first time ever playing any percussion instrument was in the winter/indoor percussion season of my freshman year of high school, during which I played bass 4. Under the instruction and guidance of my teacher, Alex Hinds, I learned everything you just talked about and the importance of how it all fits together. However, there is something I have a question about; cheeses. I'm starting college this January and would like to learn some tips and tricks on how to begin practicing them. I understand that this may not necessarily be essential to a beginner warm-up program, it's just a personal question.
I feel like one thing that isn't talked about enough in beginning percussion teaching is subdividing, how to read complex rhythms by breaking them down, and how to count complex time signatures. While none of those are self-intuitive for anyone, some players just don't get it with a cursory explanation of the basic concepts, and have to have them broken down detail-by-detail in order to grasp what's going on. Sure, exercises showing how to break down an alternating flam accent pattern work for the mechanics side of things, but I frequently encounter students that can't even read triplet eighth or sixteenth notes, much less more complex groupings like fivelets, artificial 4:3 eights, etc.
Thanks for watching the video and all the messages from the recent videos! If I had to add one exercise to this line-up, it'd be some sort of Stick Control Exercise that I would insert after the Timing exercise and as a segue into the Double Stroke exercise. What's a core skill set or exercise you think is crucial to a warm-up program?
Hi, Huei, thanks for considering my question. This topic is very interesting to me since I have been mostly self-taught and concentrated mostly on drum set playing. When I started teaching in the 90's I had some success with my kids but mostly because I went with gut instincts and common sense. I've had some talented percussionist, but I've always felt that drum line is so technique specific that my drum lines have never looked or sounded like the top tier drumlines that I would see at "lots" or nowadays video. I think it's because I'm not really understanding what to look for visually or sonically since I was not brought up in the drum corps world and have never had a teacher to point things out to me in that regard. My drumming heroes growing up were steve g. dave w. and vinnie c. and my favorite musician was chick corea. Now that I'm in my 50's(I'm 51) I have grown to really appreciate what you guys do in drum corps and I want to learn how to do that! Hope it's not to late! Btw. This is Bert 😊
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Love a good triple beat exercise and stick control :)
@HueiYuanPan great videos man and great meeting you! Keep on keeping on! 😃
Wish there was a playlist with all these exercises that could be used as a play along? 🤔 Great vid, Huei!!
Love your content has helped me get better!🔥nothing but love man awesome tips 🙏
Hello Huei, let me start off by saying that I believe that you covered a lot of important exercises for beginning marching percussionists. In fact, my first time ever playing any percussion instrument was in the winter/indoor percussion season of my freshman year of high school, during which I played bass 4. Under the instruction and guidance of my teacher, Alex Hinds, I learned everything you just talked about and the importance of how it all fits together. However, there is something I have a question about; cheeses. I'm starting college this January and would like to learn some tips and tricks on how to begin practicing them. I understand that this may not necessarily be essential to a beginner warm-up program, it's just a personal question.
I feel like one thing that isn't talked about enough in beginning percussion teaching is subdividing, how to read complex rhythms by breaking them down, and how to count complex time signatures. While none of those are self-intuitive for anyone, some players just don't get it with a cursory explanation of the basic concepts, and have to have them broken down detail-by-detail in order to grasp what's going on. Sure, exercises showing how to break down an alternating flam accent pattern work for the mechanics side of things, but I frequently encounter students that can't even read triplet eighth or sixteenth notes, much less more complex groupings like fivelets, artificial 4:3 eights, etc.
Thanks for watching the video and all the messages from the recent videos! If I had to add one exercise to this line-up, it'd be some sort of Stick Control Exercise that I would insert after the Timing exercise and as a segue into the Double Stroke exercise. What's a core skill set or exercise you think is crucial to a warm-up program?
Hi, Huei, thanks for considering my question. This topic is very interesting to me since I have been mostly self-taught and concentrated mostly on drum set playing. When I started teaching in the 90's I had some success with my kids but mostly because I went with gut instincts and common sense. I've had some talented percussionist, but I've always felt that drum line is so technique specific that my drum lines have never looked or sounded like the top tier drumlines that I would see at "lots" or nowadays video. I think it's because I'm not really understanding what to look for visually or sonically since I was not brought up in the drum corps world and have never had a teacher to point things out to me in that regard. My drumming heroes growing up were steve g. dave w. and vinnie c. and my favorite musician was chick corea. Now that I'm in my 50's(I'm 51) I have grown to really appreciate what you guys do in drum corps and I want to learn how to do that! Hope it's not to late! Btw. This is Bert 😊