Learning Drum Rudiments

Video Transcript

"Okay, as a drummer, there's lots of tools to learn. One of the ones I stress you spend some time on is your rudiments. We've introduced a couple, we don't have nearly enough time to go over all of them. Basically, you can go vicfirth.com--there's a little plug for them--and you can download all forty rudiments, the standard drum rudiments. Now, there's lots of extensions of those--some of them I use, some of them I don't really use that often. But, it's kind of like the vocabulary. That's how I'm able to develop a story behind the drum set, is because I spent some time learning them. For instance, we talked about the Swiss Army triplet. One of my favorites, because it goes around the drum set really nice, you can invert it, you can do all kinds of cool things with it. I'm going to keep it basic for now. But, you could take all those and you could make a song out of it. If you have a melody in your head, all kinds of possibilities. But it's really important to go ahead and spend the time and let the muscles remember that. Just isolate just the hands, one hand at a time. And get it sounding really good and looking really good, before you speed it up. Because if the muscles remember how to do it slow, playing it fast is really not that hard. So, okay, it's the same thing. Then when you apply it to the drum set, there's all kinds of cool stuff. So you've got. Now really I could have made that sound even better if I were to relax a little bit, but you're getting the idea. It all comes from--okay."