This full hand technique drum course is for every drummer who wants to make progress with his hand technique. No matter if you are a beginner, a casual drummer, an experienced drummer, or if you already have advanced skills, this drum course will give you further understanding of different hand techniques, tips and advices, and exercises to develop your craft. If you are a beginner and you have no idea how to hold your drumsticks correctly, how to choose your gear, how to set up, and how to play drums, this drum course will help. If you are a casual drummer that feel lost when it comes to how to practice to become more skilled, this drum course will help. If you are an experienced drummer still feeling some difficulties to translate the technique to the drum kit in any possible conditions, this drum course will help. And if you are an advanced drummer that feels stuck in the progress curve, this drum course will also help. This drum course will explain in particular the wrist technique and the open/close technique, but if you are already using an other technique, don’t worry, the exercises are for all technique !
It is about speed, stamina, power, dynamic and control. But it is not just about that. It is also about the ability to use your technique on the drum kit. And even if this drum course isn’t about creativity, drums fills, and beats, it also explore 2 very important field for every drummers : solfeggio and rudiments. If you cannot read drums notation, this drum course will give you some basic knowledge so you can start reading music score. If you feel that you don’t have enough creativity, this drum course will explain how to use notation and rudiments to start exploring more. It will open the path to creativity. Hence, yet focusing on the pure hand technique, this drum course also offers more, for every drummer.
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In short :
> 37 chapters, with video up to 1h15min each,
> Plenty of exercises for all levels and suitable for all techniques
> Chapters dedicated to wrist motion and open/close technique
> Step by step learning process, that gives you content for years
> For all levels, from beginner to drummer with advanced hand technique skills
> Also include lessons about drums notation, solfeggio, rudiments, creativity
> Troubleshooting worksheet to quickly find the lessons that can help you to solve a particular issue
> A Guide to create a weekly routine for massive result in 2 month if you are in a hurry !
TABLE OF CONTENTS :
0 - Introduction
1 - Posture/Gear/grip
The gear you need to practice well
Posture advices for hand technique
The different grips
How to hold your drumsticks
2 - Basic solfeggio and beginners exercises
Understand the principle of music notation
Learn how to read drums notation
Start to explore note value and subdivisions
Understand syncopation
Basic reading exercises
Basic rhythmic exercises
3 - Wrist motion, the ground of your sound
Why you need to spend time on your wrist motion no matter your level
Explanation of the technique
The main mistake to avoid practicing wrist motion
How to use your muscles and spare energy
How to begin with the wrist motion
A second mistake to avoid
Why wrist motion matters for your sound
4 - How to begin with 16th note single stroke roll & syncopation.
Apply the technique to the exercise, get used to wrist motion done properly
How to begin with single stroke roll, the right way !
Acquire the basic skills that will allow your skank beats and blast beats to be tighter
Learn some basic solfeggio and rhythm to gain creativity and reading skills.
5 - How to begin with double stroke roll, the right way !
Play better double stroke roll
Why double stroke roll will also make your single stroke roll better
Path to unlock more creativity
Perfect your timing and sense of rhythm
6 - How to begin with paradiddle, the right way !
How to develop your speed by practicing paradiddle
How to develop your control by practicing paradiddle
Path to unlock more creativity
Perfect your timing and sense of rhythm
7 - How to begin with triplet, shuffle etc…
Improve your hand technique practicing triplet and shuffle
Path to unlock more creativity
Perfect your timing and sense of rhythm
8 - Starter Exercise 1 & 2 : an exercise to learn new technique, have better note spacing, & dynamic
How to start increasing your speed and stamina with any technique
How to have better note spacing and dynamic
Develop your control
Increase your power at medium and high speed.
9 - Starter Exercise 3 : start to increase your stamina
How to start increasing your stamina beyond 16 bars
How to have better note spacing and dynamic
Increase your power at medium and high speed.
10 - Dynamic playing, put some groove in your fills and develop your technique !
Learn to have controlled dynamic in your rolls
Increase your control
Ideas to have more creativity behind the drum kit
11 - Optimize your drums set up & adopt an optimal posture to apply the technique to the drum kit.
How to optimize your drum set up depending the size of your drums and your technique
How to get the best rebound possible out of your drums without changing the tuning
How to develop an optimal posture behind the drum kit
Get ready to apply the technique to the drum kit
Tips to move fast around the drum kit, mistakes to avoid.
12 - Moving around the drum kit 1 : the important moves
Tips to translate the technique practices on the pad to the drum kit
Several exercises to practice your ability to move around the drum kit in different ways.
Get used to play with different rebounds
A great way to develop your muscles
A great way to work on your musicality
13 - The Open Close technique I
Play faster than 200 BPM with efficiency
Increase your stamina
Increase your control
Master triplet with Moeller technique
14 - The Open Close technique II : beginner exercises for open/close
How to gain control over the open/close motion when learning it.
2 ways of doing quarter note to 8th note roll transition that develop your open/close technique.
Work at slow tempo on your open/close technique
15 - Make your technique more reliable, pyramid exercise 1
One of the most basic pyramid exercise
How to make your technique more reliable and working n all possible conditions
Improve your single stroke roll
Improve your timing and control
Improve your weak hand.
16 - A more reliable technique, pyramid exercises 2 and 3
3 more levels of pyramid exercises using different sticking
How to make your technique more reliable and working in all possible conditions
Rudiments to improve your creativity
Improve your timing & control
Improve your weak hand
17 - Better timing, reliable technique, increased speed & stamina with 1 exercise : alternated pyramid
Make your technique more reliable and solid
Master basic subdivisions
Improve your timing
Improve your stamina
Get better single stroke roll
Clean up your traditional blast beat
18 - Clean up your blast beat : increase your hand technique with the SINGLE STROKE BUILDER
Increase your stamina
Increase your control
Improve your weak hand
Have tighter single stroke roll
Perfect exercise to progress with your blast beat.
19 - Go Triplet With Open Close (or push/pull) ! Triplet Single Stroke Builder exercise.
How to play triplet with the open/close technique (also valid for push/pull)
How to practice triplet with open/close (or push/pull)
Why it is important to have exercises dedicated to triplet
Increase your control
Increase your stamina and speed
20 - Build a reliable technique & great timing : unisson pyramid exercise.
How to have perfect unisson between your right and left hand, which is important for your bomb blast beat
Improve your timing
Make your technique more reliable
A great exercise for beginner to get used with basic subdivisions
A great exercise for confirmed drummer to improve speed and stamina.
21 - Open Close III : more control, better coordination !
2 exercises to begin with open/close motion or to develop it
Develop your coordination and control
Coordination for Bomb Blast
Even out the volume of your wrist and fingers stroke
Make the motion more instinctive
How to improve your open/close technique at slow tempo
How to start playing open/close with both hands.
22 - Warm up and muscle strengthening (for open/close motion but not only !)
Fingers stretching exercises
Fingers control exercises
Fingers strengthening exercises
Warm up with these exercises no pads needed !
23 - Optimize your hand technique & move with ease behind the kit : muscular reinforcement & stretching
Gentle workout to reinforce your core muscles, your shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers muscles.
Tricks to unlock more potential our of your wrist motion.
Tricks to get ready to play on different rebounds, and maintain your skills to play the drum kit even without access to a kit.
Stretching to release some tension and reduce muscle fatigue
24 - Applying the technique to the drum kit : the use of starter exercises 1, 2 and 3
Learn to translate the technique from the pad to the drum kit
How to move with more ease around the drum kit
Get used to play with different rebounds
Basic hands/feet coordination
25 - Hand technique workout through sticking
Level your skill & speed between your sticking, how to play fast paradiddle with open/close
Make your technique more reliable with this sticking workout
Increase your speed through sticking practice
How to make sure that you won’t struggle behind the drum kit when you can only practice on pads
26 - Build a reliable technique : pyramid exercise level 3, & dynamic practice
Pyramid exercise one with paradiddle sticking
Make your technique more reliable
Increase your speed
Practice your dynamic playing.
27 - Master complex subdivisions & increase your control with the ultimate pyramid exercise
Learn more complex subdivisions, a ground skill to open possibilities behind the drum kit
Develop your timing
Gain control over your muscle groups
Increase your speed thanks to the extra control
Develop your stamina
Increase your dynamic control
28 - Moving around the drum kit II : pyramid exercises, incl. special triplet fill & hyper blast workout
Learn how to move from the snare to the toms with more subdivisions involved
Get better at applying the technique to the drum kit, with snare and ride involved
Some more fills ideas
A special triplet fill that gives some spice up your drumming
29 - Accents & permutations : master your technique with dynamic control ; develop skills for blast beats/fills.
Learn a basic permutation in a group of 4 16th note
Work on your dynamic so you can play accents better !
Develop your wrist technique by increasing your control over your muscles group through a method based on dynamic control
Gain better synchronization and coordination
Build a better technique for dynamic blast beat
Build a better technique for dynamic fills
30 - Accents applied on the drum kit : fills, groove and blast beat
Develop your hand technique through dynamic practice on the drum kit.
Add accents and dynamic to your fills
Create dynamic groove with some of the rudiments we have practice through this drum course
Be more creative with your blast beats thanks to dynamic.
31 - My classic WARM UP exercise, which is also a good exercise to improve your technique !
A simple exercise to do without any metronome
Good to work on your speed if done during 20min+
Perfect to care up progressively if done during 5/10min, before speed workout or a show.
Tips and advises on the aim of a warm up
An example of how to use heavy sticks to practice.
32 - Stamina : a nasty and mandatory way to improve your hand technique
Reduce the fatigue during shows and rehearsal
Avoid tensing up too quickly
Increase your control and power
Develop you focus ability
Make your blast beat tighter, and with a more controlled dynamic.
33 - Speed practice and stamina in extreme situations
A full practice workout to develop usable speed with maximum efficiency.
How to work on your speed in stamina situation.
Active recuperation
Demonstrations at my tempos : use your own tempo range !
34 - Open/close IV - Extreme speed workout for open/close
A gréait exercise to practice speed.
How to fix a flaw you might have going fast with open/close motion.
What to do when you push into your red zone.
On what to focus when practicing your speed.
The double fulcrum point of the open/close motion.
Which fingers to use for the open/close motion.
35 - Moving around the drum kit III : fast fills workout
Lean to move faster around the kit with short fills to be played faster.
Apply the technique to the drum kit
Make your shoulders and elbows workout !
Practice your transitions and timing to begin and end your fills
36 - Open/close V : pushing the limit
How to push the limit with open/close
Exercises I do to push my limit even beyond the red zone !
Focusing on short burst to push the limit VS getting the flow to learn a motion
Watch me try and fail to play enough strokes !
37 - Troubleshooting worksheet and help for fast results in 2 month.
38 - Discount codes for other available lessons
