Tag: practice pad
Sextuplets With Accents Practice Pad Exercise
In this lesson, we take the sticks to the practice pad utilizing the six-stroke roll (R l l r r L) as well as some three-note sticking patterns (R l l, r r L).
Practicing vs. Playing
Many of us maintain a solid practice schedule, but are we making the most of our practice time? Are you practicing? Or, playing?
DOUBLE STROKE PRACTICE PAD EXERCISE
Learn a great practice pad exercise to help build your double strokes in both hands.
FUN PRACTICE PAD WORKOUT – 5 STROKE ROLLS
For this week's lesson we have got a fun exercise for the practice pad. The focus of the lesson is on trying to improve your weaker hand by alternating the lead with a couple of 5 stroke roll sticking patterns.
Cool Paradiddle Practice Pad Exercise
For this week's lesson we have got a fun little paradiddle workout on the practice pad. The exercise consists of 3 sticking patterns in which we add two extra notes, one of them being an accent after every sequence to give us a fun and unique way to create equality between the hands.
The Lost Art of Coordination Building
Focusing your practice time on the right things can make you a much better drummer with long-term success.
The Pad – Exercise 10 – The Diddles
This week's pad exercise is the last of the The Pad series and focuses on diddles.
The Pad – Exercise 9: Ghosts
This weekend is Halloween. It's only fitting that this week's pad exercise focuses on ghost strokes.
The Pad – Exercise 8: Toughing Through The 5s
Quintuplets (groups of 5 notes) can be tough to evenly space in a beat. This exercise focuses on the 5s.
The Pad – Exercise 7: Two Surfaces
This week's The Pad exercise takes the sticks to two surfaces.
The Pad – Exercise 6: Flam Chops
This week, we're tackling the flam. Here are some fun flam exercises to build your flam chops.
The Pad – Exercise 5
Our 5th The Pad Exercise concentrates on syncopation. Appreciate those Es and Ahs!
The Pad – Exercise 4
The fourth edition of our The Pad exercises focuses on accenting while using alternating sticking.
The Pad – Exercise 3
Being the third edition of our The Pad exercises, I see it only fitting to focus on the threes this week -- Triplets!
The Pad – Exercise 2
The second of our series of Practice Pad Exercises, this pad workout focuses on double strokes.
