{"id":6067,"date":"2017-04-26T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2022-08-22T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:21:53","slug":"fastest-way-to-get-faster-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/fastest-way-to-get-faster-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastest Way To Get Faster #9: Everything&#8217;s Cool When You&#8217;re Part Of A Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zBLSP4zcnUk?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/faster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get The Full Series! \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drumeo.s3.amazonaws.com\/fastest-way-to-get-faster\/pdf\/09-everythings-better-when-youre-part-of-a-team.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the Sheet Music \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I stole the title. It\u2019s actually a line from the Tegan and Sara song \u201cEverything Is Awesome\u201d which is part of the soundtrack to The LEGO Movie. It\u2019s burned into my memory from hearing my kids running around the house screaming it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, these next two exercises are fun ones. After studying lots of technique over the years (thanks Dom Famularo, Claus Hessler, Mike Michalkow, Lionel Duperron, and my many other great teachers), I\u2019ve always wondered how drummers will go from 0-100 mph with their sticks using hardly any effort. As I studied more, I found that this is simply a technique issue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6070 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/19155123\/Untitled-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1265\" height=\"701\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/19155123\/Untitled-23.jpg 1265w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/19155123\/Untitled-23.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/19155123\/Untitled-23.jpg 768w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/19155123\/Untitled-23.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/19155123\/Untitled-23.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1265px) 100vw, 1265px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019ve done to practice this myself is played my hands in unison. This helped me determine if there are any weak points with my hands. Most of you will find that your weak hand is much slower and less controlled. Since you\u2019re only as fast as your weakest limb, you need to make sure you start at your weak hand\u2019s slowest tempo.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>first exercise<\/b> has two beats of the hands played unison with the kick drum stroke on the \u201clet\u201d, then we split the hands up and play 16th note triplets for the second half of the exercise. Technically, the hands aren\u2019t actually playing any faster individually, but when they\u2019re off-set instead of played unison it sounds quite fast! When I practice this I simply throw my sticks down at slightly different times, using the rebound of the stick which is controlled by the fingers, to keep the note spacing even. This can take time to learn but it\u2019s so worth it!<\/p>\n<p>The <b>second exercise<\/b> is similar, but this time we\u2019re playing longer groups of unison and single strokes. You can continue to expand on this if you like, playing groups of 8, 10, or even 12 notes. I\u2019d recommend starting very slowly at around 60 bpm and then speed it up from there.<\/p>\n<h4>Practice each exercise individually for 10 minutes, then play them in sequence for 10 minutes.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get The Full Series! \u00bb Download the Sheet Music \u00bb Yes, I stole the title. It\u2019s actually a line from the Tegan and Sara song \u201cEverything Is Awesome\u201d which is part of the soundtrack to The LEGO Movie. It\u2019s burned into my memory from hearing my kids running around the house screaming it. Anyways, these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4018],"tags":[26,65,13,9,152,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10401,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/10401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}