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- Hey everyone, it's Jared here with Lesson Nine
in The Fastest Way to Get Faster Series in
Now this one's called Everything Is Cool When
You're Part Of A Team and who doesn't like the
Tegan and Sara Song from The Lego Movie.
My kids run around the house screaming that.
And so my youngest always says sharing is caring
and so I figure why don't I share
some of this stuff with you.
Now one thing I like to do is I like to play stuff in
unison and what I realized is that when I'm able to
play something a certain speed in unison,
if I just offset those notes slightly,
I'd be playing that as single strokes or I'd be playing
something much much faster than I thought I could play.
So what I did was I wrote some exercises to help
you learn how to do this and what you'll see when I'm
playing these exercises is I'm utilizing
so much rebound of the drumstick.
This is things I learned from guys like Clive Hessler,
Dom Famularo, Mike Michalkow, Lionel Duperron,
they taught me a lot of these motions.
So it's really important that you learn the motions
because part of going fast is
just having really good technique.
It's like the strongest people in the world
can't hit the golf ball the farthest.
It's not all just about brute strength.
It's about technique and it's really important
that you play drums with technique that's not injuring
yourself, you have a loose grip, you're utilizing rebound
and this is what's gonna give you that fluidity
around the drum set so the first exercise.
We're basically playing two groups of eighth note triplets.
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Then we just do the same thing with the hands
but I drop the left hand slightly afterwards.
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So the entire exercise sounds like this.
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When I'm playing it that slow, you're not
really seeing me utilize a lot of the rebound.
When I play it fast, you'll see that my hands
actually do the exact same thing whether I'm playing
them in unison or whether I'm playing them alternated.
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And one thing I found out a long time ago is if I just
did drop this hand slightly afterwards, if I'm leading
with my right, I was able to get a really fast single
stroke roll with very little effort.
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Now this is with a loose grip.
The fingers are adding some level of control to that
but the majority of what you're hearing is a result
of the rebound from the initial velocity of the stick.
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My fingers act to kind of control some of that rebound
but they're not actually creating those follow up strokes.
Okay, so let me play the first exercise for you
at both slow and fast tempos.
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Now the second exercise is probably one of my most
favorite ones in this entire Fastest Way To Get Faster
Series, just because the ease of applying that level
of speed by utilizing rebound and I am a big fan
of technique and incorporating that on the drum set.
So what we're gonna do here is play one bar of
eighth note triplets, three notes in unison
and then a bass drum in between.
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Then we're gonna start dropping those hands,
slightly different times to give six notes
instead of the three, right, if we play three,
one, two, three but instead I drop this and I alternate
it, we're gonna get six notes with the bass drum in between.
It's all played in sixteenth note triplets and I've
written the exercise in 7/4 so it naturally repeats.
So this is how it sounds both slow and fast tempos.
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Now to give you a better idea of how it sounds,
I'll do it all on the snare and I'll show you.
Watch my hands and watch how they really do nothing
differently, going from the unison to the offset strokes.
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And you can even push it faster than that.
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You'll notice I'm not working hard to create
that level of speed so it's important that you learn
correct technique because it can have a dramatic
effect on your drumming, how you play, how long you
can play without getting tired especially now,
I'm gettin' old, right, I started doin' this when I was 22.
I think I'm 35 now, last I checked.
So ya know, it's important that you play with
the correct technique because when you get older
like me, you don't have the same level of energy
and you need to utilize technique if you want to
continue playing drums at the same level.
So once you can play them each individually.
You've practiced them each ten minutes.
It's time to put them in sequence.
So now I'll play it for you, both slow
and fast speeds in sequence, here we go.
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And that is the end of Lesson Nine in
my Fastest Way To Get Faster Series.
Now there's many related techniques that are required
for this lesson so if you need to go
and study that for a while, please do that.
We have lots of lessons inside of Drumeo that can help you.
So heading over to the Drumeo Members Areas,
log into our account if you have one or sign up
if you don't, I can't believe you
wouldn't have an account, right.
But you know, there's so many cool things to learn here.
And you can see just by applying some of this technique,
you're gonna have huge benefits to that.
So get to your kit, start practicing, put in the work
and I'll see you in the next lesson.
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