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Drums
What to Practice
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For those
of you that have caught yourself saying, "I don't know what
to practice"
...Drum
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for you. - Enjoy!
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1.
Listening (concentrated "listening" to music,
not just "hearing" it)
2. Drum
Method Books (Chapin, Latham, Chaffee, etc.)
3. Styles (rock, blues, funk, country, jazz, latin, swing,
reggae, etc.)
4. Groove playing (and making it feel as good as possible)
5. Drum
Rudiments (do you know all 40?)
6. Stick control (George Lawrence Stone books etc.)
7. Dynamics
8. Song form (AABA,ABA, etc)
9. Tuning
Drums
10. Playing with a click or drum machine (also playing behind/ahead
)
11. Sightreading
(books, charts)
12. Soloing
13. Playing over the bar line
14. Odd Time
15. Finger Control (this should come "after" basic
hand technique)
16. Moeller Technique
17. Transcribing Drum Beats
18. Two handed riding on cymbals
19. Linear patterns (within the groove and soloing)
20. Left hand lead
21. Double
Bass Drum
22. Fast tempos
23. Electronics (familiarize yourself w/the latest midi
equipment)
24. Drum
Instructional Videos
25. Studio techniques (mic placement, effects, etc.)
26. Odd groupings (3’s, 5’s’ 7’s and
9’s etc.)
27. Polyrhythms
28. Beat displacement and/or Metric Modulation
29. Shuffles (funk, rock, 2 hand shuffles etc.)
30. Showmanship (stick
twirling, standing on your head) 
31. Practicing your drums in front of a mirror
32. Recording yourself and listening back (This is a big
one!)
33. Creating your "own" patterns and ideas
34. Join a drum
forum online, ask questions and get inspired.
35. Tehais (A figure repeated three times evenly in a phrase)
36. Filling around accent patterns
37. Practicing extremely slow tempos
38. Continual linear triplets around the set
39. Continual linear 16th’s around the set
40. Work with recordings that feature Music
Without Drums
41. Blast Beats, with simultaneous double bass drums
42. Motion exercises (reference Steve Smith's video)
43. Left hand and foot isolation
44. Drum physiology and ergonomics (Extremely important!)
45. Read drum publications... drum magazines and such for
inspiration
46. Brushes
for snare drum
47. Cymbal technique (which one to hit, when, how hard,
etc.)
48. Augmentation and Diminution
The
list goes on and on. You should never justifiably be able
to say,
"I don't know what to practice".
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