Rick you are just one sick monster! 😂 Thank you so much for your tireless and most generous contributions to percussion education. Your videos offer endless ideas and inspiration for students who may not have the means to work with you on a one to one basis. Kudos to you sir, you are truly the best of the best!
You play GREAT and teach great, but you need to play to a bigger audience. You need to work with a main act. You need and deserve the exposure. Nobody heard of Allan Dawson until he too k Joes place with Brubeck. Your a pleasure to listen too !!
I always wear shoes since I have sensitive feet but you can play the same way barefoot. It might hurt at first though. I have students who play barefoot but I do not.
Wow, very helpful - if perhaps a tad intimidating if this is mere warmup..! Brings me to 2 questions: 1) do you see these exercises more as maintenance, bringing muscle and rain back to a "base level" lost since yesterday (since you practice pretty much fulltime), or are they essentially nudging any such baseline every day a little further? And then 2) what do you do after being warmed up? Let it roll, go wild? (Please don't say: Then I cool down!")
The thing I start the video with is a teaser and this is the thing I end the video with so sorry if it was a bit too much. I use these things to warm up with daily to get the blood flowing. As I said in the video...I always start slow and work up to the foot substitution material. As far as what I do after that..... I work on lots of styles and coordination studies as well as playing with tracks. Right now I am working on multi-time signature things where one part of the kit is in a different time signature than another Its endless and fun as hell.
Rick you are just one sick monster! 😂 Thank you so much for your tireless and most generous contributions to percussion education. Your videos offer endless ideas and inspiration for students who may not have the means to work with you on a one to one basis. Kudos to you sir, you are truly the best of the best!
Thanks James....I really appreciate that and thanks for watching
I loved these tips and this video was very motivating too! thanks Rick, a hug from Brazil!
Same to you my friend
You play GREAT and teach great, but you need to play to a bigger audience. You need to work with a main act. You need and deserve the exposure. Nobody heard of Allan Dawson until he too k Joes place with Brubeck. Your a pleasure to listen too !!
Hi Danny
I have played with lots of famous people which is not a priority for me and I am very happy with the audience I have.
Thanks for watching.
Hi Rick! Love this vid!!! question, can you do those same foot techniques with out shoes or do you have to use shoes or any special kind?
I always wear shoes since I have sensitive feet but you can play the same way barefoot. It might hurt at first though. I have students who play barefoot but I do not.
@@rickdior great, thanks for the tip!
Probably my favorite video thus far. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Wow, very helpful - if perhaps a tad intimidating if this is mere warmup..! Brings me to 2 questions: 1) do you see these exercises more as maintenance, bringing muscle and rain back to a "base level" lost since yesterday (since you practice pretty much fulltime), or are they essentially nudging any such baseline every day a little further? And then 2) what do you do after being warmed up? Let it roll, go wild? (Please don't say: Then I cool down!")
The thing I start the video with is a teaser and this is the thing I end the video with so sorry if it was a bit too much.
I use these things to warm up with daily to get the blood flowing. As I said in the video...I always start slow and work up to the foot substitution material.
As far as what I do after that.....
I work on lots of styles and coordination studies as well as playing with tracks. Right now I am working on multi-time signature things where one part of the kit is in a different time signature than another Its endless and fun as hell.
Hi Rick , love your videos . I would like to purchase your books . Where can I do this ?
Thanks Jeffrey
Email me at rickdior@gmail.com and I will make that happen.