I'm assuming a lot of you veterans and young guns alike have done the whole marching drums/drum corps thing... but I haven't... I kinda picked it up and I was good... So I stayed with it... I'm starting to get into the DMB Carter Beauford Jam groove type music, but I haven't developed nearly enough speed to stay with his runs and fills on the toms... any suggestions on how to build speed and accuracy??








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Practice slow. If you cant play it slow you sure can't play it fast. Maybe you can fake it fast but that is just faking it.

Play it slowly until you can play it fast. If you can't play it fast then find someone to aetch you to play it slow, then develop it fast.








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+1

That's how I've been practicing recently and it's really helped me out. There really is no shortcut to speed, you can force it and end up with choppy and uneven rolls but at the end of the day, speed comes from control and technique, not from having big muscles, so the more you've perfected your technique the faster and more accurate you'll be.

I've been practicing single and double stroke rolls at 40bpm (16th's), 20 - 30 minutes a piece for a few months now, I really concentrate on getting each hit perfect and it's allowed me to hit faster tempo's more accurately








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Funk pipe wrote:

+1

That's how I've been practicing recently and it's really helped me out. There really is no shortcut to speed, you can force it and end up with choppy and uneven rolls but at the end of the day, speed comes from control and technique, not from having big muscles, so the more you've perfected your technique the faster and more accurate you'll be.

I've been practicing single and double stroke rolls at 40bpm (16th's), 20 - 30 minutes a piece for a few months now, I really concentrate on getting each hit perfect and it's allowed me to hit faster tempo's more accurately

Yeah, that's what I mean... haha I phrased that differently... I want to build technique, but I don't know any ways to do that... I'll start on that single and double stroke rolls... thanks man...








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Nice one! I also practice parradiddles this way too, and I do both hands and feet at the same time, that's entirely optional of course








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