Tim on February 20th, 2009

A while ago, I made some practice sticks. They’re basically half-sticks that you can easily carry in a pocket, and use for practice whenever you’re not busy for a few minutes. Helps with practicing your handling, and reduces the amount of time you have to look like an idiot carrying a set of drumsticks through […]

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Tim on February 15th, 2009

I’ve been practicing the drums more, and I’m starting to have a few breakthroughs.
I’m noticing that a lot of it is about combining limb movements. I got a practice book that talked about “limb independence”, but I think it was leading me down the wrong path. Maybe at higher levels of drumming, I’ll be focusing […]

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Tim on July 23rd, 2008

I’ve been practicing my drums lately. I’m better now, more than before.
Before I start the links, here’s an article I found discussing how serious drummers can be more physically fit than top athletes. So um, I’m not making noise, I’m exercising!
There’s some links that I wanted to have handy, and I figured I’d […]

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Tim on April 24th, 2008

I’m slowly learning to play the drums. Right now I’m working on practicing syncopation, which is basically a technique of either playing a beat where there isn’t otherwise one, or not playing a beat where one should be. It seems to be what is used to mix up a beat somewhat so that it’s not […]

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