- Hey everyone, Jared here.
I'm in my office right now,
and I wanna talk to everyone who works in an office
or has a desk job per se.
So many people think that, oh, Jared, you run Drumeo.
You must just bang on the drums all day,
and my guys sitting here on the cameras,
they can tell me, is this what I do all day?
- No, exactly.
So actually, most of my time spent here in the office
is in this place, and I'm actually not playing drums.
I put some drums around me to make it drummy,
but most of the time's at my desk.
And I'm always looking for new ways
to get a little bit of practice in.
So those odd times I can sit down at the pad
for two, three, four minutes, what can you do
that's really productive?
And for anyone working a desk job, these are some
little things that can really, really help you.
These snares are chatting to me right now,
so let's just put them down.
So the first thing I wanna talk to you about is something
I call fingers to wrists, okay?
Now, finger control is something you use a lot
on the drum set.
Rarely do you use it exclusively.
Right, rarely do you just play a snare roll and go,
oh,
I'm gonna quickly do a snare roll
and then go back into my normal beat?
The fingers are always used in conjunction
with the wrists, and they're used as a way
to manipulate the stick for those finer movements,
when playing shuffles, when playing fast rolls
around the drums.
So it's important to exercise these muscles exclusively
on the practice pad.
That's why we have, most are single surface practice pads.
This our Drumeo P4 practice pad,
which has multiple different surfaces.
So what I like to practice is moving
between fingers exclusively and then wrists,
with the fingers acting as more of a supporting role, okay?
So what I do is I'll just play fingers for a while.
And then I'll try and transition to wrists
without any hiccups in the sound.
There's a little hiccup there.
You hear that?
And back to fingers.
I kind of turn my hands in.
Then back to wrists.
Now, it's going to sound different
no matter what you do, but the trick is to try and get it
to sound as even as possible.
And switch it quicker.
These are the types of things
that really kind of level up your technique.
And if you can take five minutes on your lunch break
at work or 15 minutes on your coffee break in the morning
or whatever, there's always a chance
to get a little bit of practice in, right?
And every single time you sit down and do any amount
of practice, even if it's just simply
this, for a few minutes, you are getting better.
So that's what's most important.
So for those of you who work a desk job, like myself,
and can't seem to find time to practice,
I'd encourage you to keep a practice pad at your office
and keep a pair of sticks.
These are Dom Famularo's pad sticks
that I absolutely love.
And just sit down for any amount of time
and just work on one quick concept.
It doesn't have to be rocket science, okay?
Finger control to wrists, same tempo, transition smoothly.
There you go, that's a tip for today.
I hope you enjoyed it, and I'll see you
in the next lesson.