Hey, I've been playing drums for about 2-4 months, I can do quite alot of stuff but I went out and bought a double kick, I wanna know of any exersies or stuff to do.

thnx

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well goddamn ive never seen those characters before

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okay here is a great double bass work out:


basicallu it is the roddy stone killer exercises but with some rolls thrown in:

Okay start off at a nice comfy tempo doing this:


RF ****
LF ****

constantly for 2 minutes (never mind about the smiley faces, they keep the spacing)

then (2 mins)

RF ********
LF ********

and then (2 mins)

RF ****************
LF ****************

then do a roll combining both parts:

RF* * *
LF * * *

etc.

keeping it consistant and to a metronome.

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yeah what the fuck??? how'dya do that?

Whats that suppose to mean

And thanks NZ for that, will do.

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the characters in your name....weird looking e's and crosses and stuff

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it just looks like a different font too

Its my Name in Counter-strike: Source, the e's and m's have a differn't font if you use thoughs letters.

I thought maybe you ment becuase I can't play drums and I'm one of thoughs people that just go out and buy a double kick becuase they feel that playing is nothing with out one... and I'm half that, its just I live in a small town and have to learn drums to start a band (I play guitar) and all the stuff I've written uses little rolls and stuff for double kick as fills, but I wanted to learn to use it properly instead of half arsed

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well sorry we got all off topic on you man, im not a drummer so i cant help. a few great drummers here though. might want to check out derek roddy's forums as well, amazing death metal drummer who helps people

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the first thing I did was get a video with rod morgenstein, bozzio on it. It helped to get me some ideas.

in order to type in special characters go to start menu -> run then type in "charmap" and hit run.

hi i red your problem....well
it isn't a problem but i play drums for about 2 years now and
to learn control your dubble base is just a matter of practising...
and remember double base rules!! hehhe
well good luck and remember keep practising every day and hour
it will help hehe

greetz

P.s dont mind my grammar i'm from holland :P

I was practising first of all just like RLRLRLRLRL and some kind of paraliddl: RLRRLRLLRLRRLRLL... But i dont know, if the stardrummers are doing it the same...

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yeah thats all good dude

Practicing rudiments with your feet helps your controll

what I posted earlier is a speed and endurance exercise, rather than controll!!

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what do you mean with "roll" in that exercise??? how can you roll on the base???

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nah I said Controll

not a roll


a roll with the bass is just:

RLRLRLRLRLRLR etc.

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Ah, ok, i thought you can do somekind of drum-roll on your doublebass, so i was very interested!

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Doing heel-toe is kind of like a bass drum roll in a way. But not as fast, nor as easy.

But anyways, try using your left foot as much as your right also. It will help in the long run. Rudiments are great for controll. I find it extremly hard to do them after a certain speed. They help alot for those annoying kick patterns when you sometimes have to start out on your less dominant foot. Chris Adler is really great with that stuff.

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Can you explain whats it about using "heel-toey"?

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okay

with heel toe what you do is you play a hit with your heel, then roll your foot forward and play a second stroke with your toes, the result is you can go:

Bdum (really fast 2 hits) with one foot.

when you get good you can do patterns of 3 and 4

Check out the Jojo Mayer vid on www.drummerworld where he shows some mind boggling heel toe work!

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Yes, i knew this video allready, but i guess my foot is too large for (dont know what its called) the footmachine... So, i think my heel would not have enough strength to push my bassdum down...

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sorry for double post!

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nah people with big feet can do heel toe

it just requires a diff technique

try playing in barefeer and doing it.

this is why I play Axis Longboardm that extra 2 inches on the FOOTBOARD (not foot machine!) makes heel toes soooo much easier,.

the other way to do heel toe is a slide technique which I can do to a degree

where you slide your foot up the foot board and do 2 hits

there is a video of Chris Adler showing this technique and the standard heel toe technique.

The other way steve Smith demonstrated on his DVD, you play a beat with your leg, then as you lift up with your leg, you play the second hit with your toes,

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Maybee i should get these "long" footboards for heel-toe...
In general it would be very helpful to have them...^^

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It is helpfull to have long boards if you have big feet, but as NZ said, it's possible to do it with big feet. I can bring my foot down alot on my pedal and still pull it off.

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ah, allright... Then ill try it, too!!!
But i think i wont use it anyway because i am fast enough with both feet...

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