Reflective Diary Entry
At the beginning of the course I wanted to try and develop my skills all around the kit, from rudiments, to strengthening my right hand, to adding more intricate and unique fills to make my drumming sound more complete and give songs a nice flow.
I managed to, over these past few months improve my rudiment skills a lot. This included being able to perform paradiddles, double and triple paradiddles to a high and clean standard. Whether that was just on the hi-hat or snare, or around the kit in fills or grooves. I also do warm ups with using rudiments to get my hands used to playing. I tend to do a 45 minute warm up that starts at 60 bpm and goes up to 120 bpm, depending on the rudiment/exercise I am doing. I do each bpm for 2 minutes on each rudiment/exercise. These rudiments ranged from simple single strokes alternating, all the way to the 6 stroke roll, performed both ways.
I believe that what I had set out to do has been achieved the whole, however there is one key area that I now know that I need to get better at and work on. This is my feet coordination. For example being able to play open and closed hi-hats in any groove in which my right foot is hitting the bass/kick drum. I really struggle with this as I haven't really focused on this much, nor have I tried to work on this technique. But I feel over time that, with the help of my drum teacher Nico, I'll be competent in this and be able to use it during grooves to make them sound that bit better. It will take a lot of practise as it is something I have struggled with over the past 6 years, when I first started drumming and a lot of my mates are having the same difficulties because it is so hard to coordinate.
I managed to, over these past few months improve my rudiment skills a lot. This included being able to perform paradiddles, double and triple paradiddles to a high and clean standard. Whether that was just on the hi-hat or snare, or around the kit in fills or grooves. I also do warm ups with using rudiments to get my hands used to playing. I tend to do a 45 minute warm up that starts at 60 bpm and goes up to 120 bpm, depending on the rudiment/exercise I am doing. I do each bpm for 2 minutes on each rudiment/exercise. These rudiments ranged from simple single strokes alternating, all the way to the 6 stroke roll, performed both ways.
I believe that what I had set out to do has been achieved the whole, however there is one key area that I now know that I need to get better at and work on. This is my feet coordination. For example being able to play open and closed hi-hats in any groove in which my right foot is hitting the bass/kick drum. I really struggle with this as I haven't really focused on this much, nor have I tried to work on this technique. But I feel over time that, with the help of my drum teacher Nico, I'll be competent in this and be able to use it during grooves to make them sound that bit better. It will take a lot of practise as it is something I have struggled with over the past 6 years, when I first started drumming and a lot of my mates are having the same difficulties because it is so hard to coordinate.
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