A simple warm up using a combination of single strokes roll shifting from 8th to 16th quintuplets
Category Archives: Double bass drum
Double bass drum exercises for dummies (and not dummies): free pdf download sheet music
How to improve your double bass drum tecnique? Nothing better than apply rudiments and basic grooves. Here you can download 7 pdf pages full of free exercises
Double Bass Drum exercises for rookie and non rookie drummers: applying grooves and rudiments to double pedal tecnique
Paradiddles, rock grooves, single and double stroke roll, tuples and linear combination: 7 pages of double bass drum tecnique to help your feet play fast, accurata and groovy
Download here for free: Double Bass Drum exercises for rookie and non rookie drummers: applying grooves and rudiments to double pedal tecnique double bass drum tecnique exercises
Kindle edition: playing with double pedal: paradiddles and rudiments warmup and exercises
Warm up for snare drum and double pedal: flams progressions
This warm-up combines the flam rudiment in different single and double strokes. Good for hands for finger and wrist control and for double pedal tecnique
Click here and download Flams warmup for snare and double bass drum
How to use George Lawrence Stone’s Stick Control to improve your pedals control on drums
Who said George Lawrence Stone ‘Stick Control’ is only for hands?
You can use this fundamental book to practice and have a lot of fun playing Stick Control exsercises with feet too.
Here some quick tips for a routine, be creative and find yours.
1. Use pages 5,6 or 7
2. Play exercises with double bass pedal, kick/hi hat and or simply to the floor
3. Play exercises as prescribed by Stone (20 times) but also practicing every bar 4/8/12/16 times: those are the standard measure lenght you’ll deal to while playing
4. when you have confidence with exercises add some hands ostinatos in order to achieve independence and coordination too
Don’t play all routine every time: choose one or two kind of exercises and have fun
If you don’t have George Lavrence Stone’s Stick Control, you really should think to add it to you library
Rudiments on the bass drum: double pedal exercises
Some basic exercises to develope speed and sound on the double bass pedal playing single and double stroke rolls and five stroke rolls with kicks while hands play a straight eight-feel rock beat
Download sheets: Rudiments for the double pedal (.pdf file)
Double Pedal tecnique: rudiments for double bass drum
Some basic exercises to develope speed and sound on the double bass pedal playing single and double stroke rolls and five stroke rolls with kicks while hands play a straight eight-feel rock beat
Download sheets: Rudiments for the double pedal (.pdf file)
Double pedal tecnique: a podcast lesson by Russ Miller
Double pedal addicted: here you can download a bonus lesson by Russ Miller, not included on the Arrival: Behind the Glass DVD
Download Russ Miller double pedal podcast
And, after downloading for free Russ Miller lesson on double pedal, check our double pedal tecnique exercises
Double bass drums independence and coordination, part 3. Triplets
Some unisono exercises to pratice the single stroke roll on snare drums and double bass played. Rolls are either alternate and consecutive
Download score : double bass drum independence and coordination, part 4. Triplets
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