(rock music)
(hitting drumsticks)
(playing drums)
- Hey everyone, it's Jared here, back with you
in the second lesson in my Fastest Way To Get Faster series.
Now I call this lesson the Buddy bruiser.
I used to listen to tapes of Buddy Rich
back when I was first learning drums,
and he had such a brash and aggressive personality,
and then you listen to him play, and the intensity
and the stuff that he was doing on the kit
just matched his personality, I would say.
I call this the Buddy bruiser, just because it sounds
like something Buddy would play,
but I can't say it is something that he played.
Now I first heard of an exercise similar to this
from Thomas Lang.
He went in between the floor tom and the snare drum
in groups of three, starting on the floor tom.
So then the snare would line up with the left hand lead
so you wouldn't have to try and get your right hand over
if you're leading with your right hand.
I'll show you it nice and slow.
(hitting drums)
So you see, after the first three strokes on the floor tom
I'm able to move to the snare drum easily
because I'm leading with my left hand.
Now the way I built out this exercise
is I started on the floor tom, go to the snare,
go back to the floor tom, and then go to the high tom.
So let me play this for you at 60 and 220 beats per minute
to show you how it sounds nice and slow,
and also really fast.
(hitting drumsticks)
(playing drums) (metronome beeping)
(hitting drumsticks)
(playing drums) (metronome beeping)
The next exercise is simply a variation on that.
We go from the floor tom to the snare
to the floor tom then the mid tom.
So practice this the same way as you did the first exercise.
Here it is both slow and fast.
(hitting drumsticks)
(playing drums) (metronome beeping)
(hitting drumsticks)
(playing drums) (metronome beeping)
And finally, we're gonna put it all together.
We're gonna play both exercises in sequence.
So let's start on the floor tom, go to the snare,
then the floor and the high tom, floor tom and the snare,
floor tom the mid tom.
Here it is at 60 and 220 beats per minute.
(hitting drumsticks)
(playing drums) (metronome beeping)
(hitting drumsticks)
(playing drums) (metronome beeping)
Now you can start this anywhere between 60
and 80 beats per minute, depending on where
your comfort level is at.
Because it's triplets you might want to start it
a little bit faster than the 60 BPM
that I always seem to recommend.
I'd recommend moving up in five or 10 BPM increments.
Practice each exercise for 10 minutes,
and then practice them in sequence for 10 minutes.
So it's a total of 30 minutes every time you sit down
and practice this type of exercise.
You're gonna notice that you have way more freedom
when moving around the drum set.
You're really gonna get to know your setup,
and you're gonna find the little areas
where you maybe need to make some adjustments,
especially on those toms as you move from the floor tom
to the high tom.
So there it is, the second lesson
in my Fastest Way To Get Faster series
Get to your kit, practice this right now, go.
Go.
Now.
(slow rock music)