Hey everybody welcome back! In this lesson I'm gonna show you how to clean up your
left hand if you're trying to get more precise with your blast beats. This video
will include a couple exercises that you can download in the description below as
a PDF file! Feel free to play along with those at your discretion. If you're
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thing! We're going to go over two exercises and strengthening your left
hand, I'm also going to give you a few tips and tricks and some advice to along
the way. Mind you these exercises are very basic, but they are a little tough
to do at slower speeds, and I highly advise you to do that first before
trying to blast your way through some slop. Alright! Let's get to the first
exercise and I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about.
Today's lesson is on tightening up that pesky weak hand which is usually the left
hand If you're a right handed drummer. If you're a left-handed drummer it's going
be your right hand. So let's get right into the exercise. This first exercise is
split up between your left hand and your right foot and it's played as eighth
notes. Now you're going to play and lead with your right foot on the kick drum
and then hit the snare drum on the and of each beat so you're gonna play: one
and two and three and four and. Let's go over that at 80 bpm and
then secondly again at 120
I know it might sound counterproductive but, slowing down the BPM and the note rate
will highly increase the probability of you not being able to play it as
seamless. So if you bring it down to 40 BPM, you're gonna open up all that much
more time and you'll have that much more room for mistakes. So being able to play
at a really really slow BPM will help you increase your speed on this. Let's
move on to something a little more complicated and advanced for people who
thought that was easy. Let's get to it! The exercise is as follows: three beats
of alternating sixteenth notes and the last beat of that measure is a
paradiddle that ends off with two rights. So you get a turnaround and you get to
work on the opposite hand. Under the sixteenth notes you're playing eighth
notes and that's between your right and left foot on your double pedals. Let's
get to that exercise and hear how it sounds at two speeds 80 BPM and 120!
That was the exercise at 80 BPM now here comes the kicker try and play it at 120.
I myself am struggling with this so bear with me as I try and power through
this! This is really helpful because as it transitions between leading hands
it's going to go opposite to what your feet are playing. So have fun with this one!
We shot this s at a higher frame rate so you can see exactly what's going on
with my hand as I played the diddle to make the inversion into the other hand
now let's review the footage and you can check it out for yourself maybe this
will help you maybe it won't but I thought I'd include it anyway those two
exercises are available for download in the description below this video also I
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