How To Get Faster At Playing The Drums! Killer Speed-Building Exercise

Here’s a REALLY simple but brilliant way of developing your speed for grooves and fills!

This method will also work for building up hand speed for rudiments, foot speed for double kick etc. It’s a CLASSIC!

The metronome I use is the Soundbrenner Pulse. It can be used as the standalone app or with the watch, which I’ve had for a couple of years now and is great - use it every day!

https://www.soundbrenner.com/

That Moeller technique video I mentioned:

   • How To Play Fast Hi-Hat in Drum Groov...  

And one about finger control:

   • One Minute Drum Lesson - Developing S...  

Have fun and thanks for watching :)

Mike :)

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Kit

Yamaha Recording Custom - 22”/10”/12”/16”

Tama John Blackwell 6.5 x 13” Snare

Evans Hydraulic Red Drumheads, Evans Edge Control Reverse Dot (Snare)

Meinl Byzance Cymbals - 20" Sand Ride, 18” Sand Thin Crash, 16" Vintage Crash, 14” Sand Hats

Dave Grohl Zildjian Drumsticks

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