Drum Kit

Chaffee - Rhythm and Meter Patterns

Go through General Considerations and Preliminary Exercises.

These will be the warm up of every practice session. Always think about this during your stroke.

Moeller Technique by Jim Chapin video

Practice it as a warmup at different dynamics. Use it from now on.

Practice the previous two every session, and eventually reducing to every other session, etc…

Rothman - Basic Drumming Finish this book. What you may find helpful is to use a digital metronome that allows you to encode the beats of these book. It will help with the timing e.g. 1/16 vs 1/8. Once you can play at 60 BPM of the score, reduce the number of beats to see if you can still do it without the metronome.

I count in 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8 Vietnamese because English has seven syllables. 1 e + d is too distracting. We always chunk it down to the smallest unit anyways, so not necessary.

Heel-Toe Bass Drum Technique

Imagine your feet going through a sine wave. You start from the ball of your feet, induce the wave via the heel of the feet, followed by the ball hitting again. Heel-Toe Bass Drum Technique - Drum Lesson (Drumeo)-xHqkxHaQ-bI

Morello - Master Studies Rothman - Mini-monster Book of Rock Drumming Whaley - Musical Studies for the Intermediate Snare Drummer

Chaffee - Time Functioning Patterns

Chaffee - Sticking Patterns

Chaffee - Technique Patterns

Chaffee - Rhythm and Meter Patterns

Chaffee - Linear Time Playing

If you can work through these books, you have efficient technique.

Make sure your hands are not tense, and are relaxed at all times. Matched grip is preferred.