![]() ![]() To read the whole book click here Drum Kit Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer (Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician)Īs you love drumming, you may want to browse the other lessons available at Total Drummer. Your sense of space in the music, and your effect on the feel, will increase drastically, enabling you to make smart musical choices for the feel of each song. This will also help your timing in general so you should find it even easier now to play right on the click. Also experiment with switching between different feels, as mentioned earlier, so that you can vary the tension between sections of a song. Make sure you maintain the chosen feel at all times. Get creative, just as you would at a live performance. Now try to add fills, vary the drum pattern, introduce sixteenth beats, and so on. Now that you have mastered the feel of playing a basic drum beat on, behind, and in front of the click, it is time to move away from that safety net. They will be unaware of any metronome, but will subconsciously respond to the feel that you have created with respect to the other musicians. The aim is to hold it there consistently so your rhythm still sounds great to the listener. Whether behind or ahead, try to see how far back, or in front, you can push that beat before you lose it. This time try to push slightly ahead so that flam is created again, but this time you play first so the click follows. Now we repeat this exercise playing in front of the click. This might not happen in one practice session so be prepared to revisit this exercise numerous times. Repeat this pattern until it becomes comfortable. The hi-hats should maintain perfectly even eighth notes, all equally behind the clicks. Resist the temptation to land back on the click, but also keep the notes steady. Allow your notes to fall slightly behind each click, so that they create what we call a flam between yourself and the click. With the click at a slow tempo again, play the same rock beat from Exercise 1. This will go against all your instincts now that you have developed such metronomic precision, but take the time with this exercise and it will make sense. Below are some exercises to help develop this timing control. ![]() We might even change timing within the same song, spending a laid-back verse playing behind the beat, then transitioning into a frenzied chorus that requires us to play in front of the beat. But if we can learn to harness control of this timing, then we can create any feel at any given time. Many of us have a natural feel that sees us subconsciously ahead, behind, or on top of the beat. They do not always sit directly on top of each click.Ī laid-back track might involve a slightly behind-the-beat rhythm, whereas a fast, attacking track might see the drummer playing ahead of the beat. ![]() You are perfectly in time with it.Īlthough this now feels like we have mastered the click, if we look to more experienced musicians, we find that they have the freedom to move around that metronome at will in order to create different feels and moods within the music. ![]() This might seem strange at first, but don’t panic the metronome hasn’t broken. If you play exactly at the same time, you will not hear the click. If beats one and two consist of a hi-hat and bass and beats two and four a snare and hi-hat, then we are aiming for those kit voices to completely eliminate the metronome’s click. Set it for 50 bpm, so it is slow and challenging, and simply play a basic rock beat. This chapter helps take that feeling to the next stage so that you are the master of that metronome completely.įirst of all, let’s see if you can play with total accuracy on the click. You should also feel less a slave to the click and more in control of your own timing. SECRET 17: MASTER OF THE DRUMMING METRONOMEīuilding on Secret 16, you should now be reasonably confident about playing in time with a metronome at a range of tempos. You can grab free metronomes on your phone or online or you can buy a dedicated metronome which has more features such as Boss DB-30 It is taken from the section of the book that focuses purely on timing tips to help you become the most accurate drummer you can be.įirst off make sure you have a metronome to hand. This focuses on timing and becoming the master of the drumming metronome. Here is a sample chapter from the book ‘Drum Kit Secrets: 52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer’. ![]()
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