The best way to build coordination AWAY from the kit
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2023
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Have you ever spent a few days away from your drums, only to find to your dismay that you’ve completely lost the progress you made last week? If so, today’s lesson is going to REALLY help you out.
I believe you can build significant coordination AWAY from the kit by practicing a type of “table-top drumming” in a chair.
This will not only help you maintain the growth you’ve accomplished, but it will actually ACCELERATE your limb independence. I’ll teach you how (& why) today. YOU CAN DO THIS!
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"It's a really musical chair!" As a percussionist I love this statement!
I've been driving people crazy by hitting stuff for over 50 years. Lol.
This exercise is also good for gettin yer ears out from under yer feet. Im talkin bout the way we could blaze a paradidle mindlessly......until different voices came into play. Idk but i struggled when patterns sounded different. I had to learn to trust my hands n feet to get it done n keep it together and know itll sound good if its clean. Good job as always Brofessor Clapsaddle 👍
Good lesson. You can take this pretty deep and can only benefit from it. I like that you suggest using a specific rhythm as an example instead of just pounding out willy-nilly, as it takes discipline. I swear, us drummers can never rest. I'm even working out rhythms when going to sleep.
Crazy😂
Good tips. As I am leaving for a week away from home, I was dreading the loss of practice time because the losing progress thing has certainly happened to me. My wife may not thank you because my constant tapping and rhythmic foot sounds sometimes drives her crazy. Oh well.
All of these "weird" exercises are really good for your brain, muscle memory and overall limb coordination. I do this a lot when I'm not at the kit, eg. watching TV so I don't waste time completely (yeah, I sometimes feel watching a movie and doing nothing more is a waste of time... 🙂). I play doubles or paradiddles with my legs, trying to put them on autopilot, then I play something else with my hands in different rhytm and/or different tempo. And of course I watch this movie on TV, so I have to split my focus and make shure my playing is consistent enough and I still keep track of what's going on in the movie. Sometimes I feel like my CPU is at 100% load when I play and watch at the same time 😉.
As for coordination training, once in a while I completely flip my kit (kick on the left, hihat on the right). I think it really gives a lot. At first it was very hard and frustrating (especially the kick with the left foot), but now I can play a lot that way. My left foot became significantly faster, right foot more precise, left hand both faster and precise. I'm right handed but I play open a lot.
Drums are really a symmetrical instrument and such training evens out the diferences between right and left (or strong and weak) side. Try this, it'll help you become more experienced and complete drummer.
There's this austrian drummer, Thomas Lang, very skilled and versatile, I admire him. I've heard him say something like that it's a good thing for the right foot to be able to play the same as the left one and vice versa. And the same goes for hands. He had double bass pedals and two hihats (one on the left and the other one on the right). He played these without thinking much. It was very inspiring to watch him play that way.
Such a helpful lesson.. It was my constant dashboard, armrest, center console playing to our local Contemporary Christian radio station, that caused my wife to encourage me to get my first drum kit. That was 2 years ago, and now i am at the point of being almost ready to join my Churches worship band, hopefully right after archery season, or what I call, the one string guitar hunting season.
I actually do play tabletop a little but I haven't made it a habit yet. I only clung to it when I was away from the drums for a week+. Only now do I see how beneficial it can be and also how I can give it more effort than before.
Thank you once again Stephen, it was a very enlightening video.
Love this! I always suspected my airdrumming/floorfeeting had a part in the progress I made while away from the kit. This video is just great haha!
That's how I noticed too that my left foot couldn't do the same beats my right foot could!
Hey Stephen, thanks for this non standard drum lesson. I am a tap dancer for almost 20 years and I started to play drums one month and a half ago. And my progress is amazing. I can certify that the hints that you give in this lesson do help a lot on the coordination issues and on the musicality on drums.
Thanks. I needed this. You just blew my brain wide open. This is how I will play with my friends at their house w/o my kit. This is how I will learn to improvise. This is how I will practice "extra" wherever I may be at any moment of the day, and away from home. Awesome. :)
I've literally been doing this for as long as I can remember and now I know why I picked the drums up so fast 😅
This will be a good challenge for me as I have trouble walking and talking at the same time.
Rock with you intro nicee
Is it appropriate to those those on a pad? I wanna combine my coordination practices to my grip practices.
This is 90% of my practise.
You could gig that chair.