Body Mechanics for High Speed Dumbeck Drumming

Video Transcript

" Lets talk a little bit about building up speed and building up control. Now I mention in the other series I did for dumbek is that a lot of people want to grab the drum and they just want to go crazy on it they want to a whole lot of noise. There is nothing wrong that. It is not really drumming you are just making noise my three year old could do that. To play drums in a way that expresses something intentionally it means that you have to build the control over your hands, you have to build up a internal sense of rhythm. So I always tell people the best to do if you are going to buy a drum buy metronome with the same store tell them I want a metronome and the just put that baby next to you and you could start the metronome clicking at 92 beats per minute. You just play along with that over and over and over again. Now building that speed is mostly a matter of doing two things. One is subdividing the beats and two it is just getting the control and speed in your hands. Let me show you how you could get speed by subdividing in beats. What I mean by that is lets go 1,2,3,4, lets just play this for a minute. Now what happens if I go 1and 2and 3and 4 and it is going not sound faster. I'm playing the same speed . I'm going to play that speed. I slowed it down .....that sounds like is going faster........so subdividing playing the same down beat and adding more notes up here that is a whole lot the dumbek is. So that is subdividing. "