exercises for finger drumming
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- KVRAF
- 1585 posts since 13 Nov, 2005 from St. Paul
Is anyone aware of a good set of exercises for building up rhythmic accuracy and speed for those using an MPC/Maschine type of controller to input drum patterns? I can play the piano already, if that's relevant, but have little/no experience using a kit drum. If there's a good standard set of exercises for kit drummers that would be helpful as well, although there will obviously be some things that are much easier to execute with the feet as helpers, and other stuff that would be easier to execute with 10 active fingers.
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- KVRAF
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
+1
I would think just practice, practice, practice though.
I would think just practice, practice, practice though.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1585 posts since 13 Nov, 2005 from St. Paul
ran across this:
jeremy ellis has a set of tutorials on finger drumming that appears to be pretty good.
jeremy ellis has a set of tutorials on finger drumming that appears to be pretty good.
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- KVRAF
- 2217 posts since 15 Jul, 2003
as someone who has done finger drumming nearly all my life, from what I've seen of the Jeremey videos he covers the basic techniques
I think there are two basic techniques at work: the curved finger wrist arm single finger tap -- that involves a curved finger and some arm wrist motion -- and the flatter finger, thumb-anchored technique where the forearm/wrist rests on a spot.
Natural finger drummers tend to favor the thumb anchor -- usually using the thumb as the kick or bass drum and other fingers as snares/toms, including rolls and rudiments if one was so trained. This works on tabletops or any near flat surface -- not overlooking two thumb work. You can usually get a good thump going with the side of the thumb and a sharper tap with finger.
After all that, for electronica, it's a matter of learning/training where the pads are and their sweet spots. I find it's actually a lot easier with larger pad devices like drumKat or trapKat than these little crowded pad devices.
I think there are two basic techniques at work: the curved finger wrist arm single finger tap -- that involves a curved finger and some arm wrist motion -- and the flatter finger, thumb-anchored technique where the forearm/wrist rests on a spot.
Natural finger drummers tend to favor the thumb anchor -- usually using the thumb as the kick or bass drum and other fingers as snares/toms, including rolls and rudiments if one was so trained. This works on tabletops or any near flat surface -- not overlooking two thumb work. You can usually get a good thump going with the side of the thumb and a sharper tap with finger.
After all that, for electronica, it's a matter of learning/training where the pads are and their sweet spots. I find it's actually a lot easier with larger pad devices like drumKat or trapKat than these little crowded pad devices.
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
http://www.halleonard.com/product/viewp ... ubsiteid=2jopy wrote:If there's a good standard set of exercises
essential for drummers, eg., the 26 rudiments.
http://www.virtualdrumming.com/drums/dr ... music.html
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- KVRer
- 5 posts since 28 Nov, 2012 from Trondheim
Guitar hero? hehe. It must have some effect on you coordination in the fingers
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1585 posts since 13 Nov, 2005 from St. Paul
sorry i missed this earlier, this is very helpful.jancivil wrote:http://www.halleonard.com/product/viewp ... ubsiteid=2jopy wrote:If there's a good standard set of exercises
essential for drummers, eg., the 26 rudiments.
http://www.virtualdrumming.com/drums/dr ... music.html
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1585 posts since 13 Nov, 2005 from St. Paul
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- KVRer
- 18 posts since 18 Jun, 2012 from SVQ (Spain)