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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Drumming Lessons DVD: Increase Your Playing Level

By Willie Cousins

Understand how to create syncopation and beat displacement to enhance creativity. Learn how tune your drums for the optimum sound and the variables that affect that sound. Work on four-way independence on the drumset. Understand how to create syncopation and beat displacement to enhance creativity.

The most important thing to remember about home drum practice is to keep your family happy. They need to be for you and not against you. Once they have agreed to have drums in the home, you need to agree on the amount of practice time. As for me, one hour daily is the magic number.

Beginners, Intermediates, advanced, expert and professional players all use drumsticks. Most professional drummers are particular about the weight, shape, balance, size, grain and density of the sticks. Thick, heavy sticks are used to play street drums in marching bands and drum corps. They can produce a high quality sound.

Before you get started, be sure to do warm-up exercises for drum set playing. Generally speaking, drum set exercises would refer to rudiments or chops but the information that is being presented to you has to do with warming up the body before any drumming.

Ever get in a slump and can't get excited about drumming? This is often due to lack of motivation or stimulation. Just as you would read positive books of wisdom and understanding to improve yourself as a person, the same holds true with drumming. You must find ways to be excited about playing. The following offer a few suggestions:

Isolate your feet and practice nothing but them for extended periods of time. Play the samba bass drum rhythm "allot". That's always been a good one for getting your right foot in shape

What is Second Line? Have you ever been asked to play a "second line" beat on a particular song? I know I have. Usually I cringe and realize that, although I basically think it involves a marching style on the snare drum, I really don't have a clue as to what to play. Luckily my experience and musicality got me by for many years. I learned how to fake things "very" well.

Second line drumming is associated with the city of New Orleans. It seems to have originated there and developed in many forms through the years. Second line drumming involves simple cadence type (marching) snare beats.

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