Smoke rubber, not cigarettes. Source: dicktay2000

Disclaimer

Building power is a worthy goal. But it takes time. There are no shortcuts. It must be built brick by boring brick. And the work must be done. Oh yes, the work must be done. Don't expect any quick fixes.

With that out the way...

This is a subject I was talking about online with a few friends a while back. I've been thinking about it ever since. And, as far as I can tell, there are only 2 factors that determine your drumming power. One is strength and the other is the ability to transfer that strength to the stick. Or, to put it another way, horsepower and handling.

Horsepower

A measure of the force of your engine. How much force you can generate at the muscular level in any stroke (a more accurate term would've been torque but it doesn't sound as good).

The force that drives a car forward is generated by the explosions that take place in the engine cylinders. In simple terms: to get more power, you can make the explosions bigger or make them more frequent. The human body equivalent would be to train a muscle to contract with more force (bigger exlosion) or with more speed (more frequent contractions).

In other words: Lift heavier weights or lift the weight faster. Simple. The next one's a bit more complicated...

Handling

This is about how much of that force gets transmitted to the tyres.

Once the explosion in the cylinder happens, the force is then transported quickly and efficiently to the tyres. This happens through a chain of equipment: crankshaft, transmission, driveshaft, axle etc.

The tyres then grip the road and try to push it backwards. Of course, the road is quite heavy (understatement) so the car is pushed forward instead. In this case, increasing efficiency along the chain and increasing the grip of the tyres will both help to increase power (tyre grip is critical because, without it, the wheels will just spin and zero power will be transferred).

So, as drummers, we can increase our handling ability by devloping the efficiency with which we transmit power along our "chain of equipment": shoulders, elbow, wrist; hip, knee, ankle ie. perfecting technique.

But here's where things get a little different. Tyres must grip the road or else power won't be transferred and the car won't move. But for us, once that stick is moving at full speed, our work is done. It's time to let it go, let it do its job and then catch it when its done. Any gripping on impact will mean a choked sound, less rebound and more work for us because the stick has to be lifted back up.

Oh, I know what you're thinking. "But, Alexander, I've been working on my horsepower! Lifting a stick is no big deal for me." That may be true but after a couple of minutes of fast 1/16th notes you will notice the weight if you aren't using the rebound.

Troubleshooting

The goal here is mastery of both aspects. However, most people struggle with one more than the other. Is it horsepower or handling that is holding you back? The chances are that you already know which one but if you're unsure, try this quiz and find out:

1. My sticks are
a) broken
b) the same set I got when I first started playing

2. After playing, I mostly get
a) blisters
b) musce aches

3. I struggle to
a) play with any sense of dynamics
b) be heard at band practice

- Mostly a's
Put in more time on your practice pad. Focus on relaxation, technique and grip.

- Mostly b's
Put in more time in the weights room. Focus on full-body, heavy, explosive lifts.

No action, no outcome

Please keep in mind that power is an outcome. To chase power directly is like shouting at a foreigner to be understood. Things would be easier if you just spent some time learning the language. So, in drumming terms, stop hitting harder (at least for a while) and work on the real actions that create power:

The total force you can generate - Horsepower.
The efficiency with which you transmit that force - Handling.

- Warning:

Master only one side of the power equation and you will end up with a broken machine. Sure, you might be good but you will be robbing yourself of potential. Master neither and you may as well mount that Chevy on a set of bricks and sit it on your front lawn.

So are you an "a" or a "b"? In what area do you need to focus? Leave your answer in the comments

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Timing. It's easy to get lost. Source: fdecomite

Everyone talks about the importance of having good timing. Or being able to play in time. Or good time-playing. It doesn't matter how you say it, it's the most important thing you need to develop. But also the most difficult. Because it doesn't exist.

The way most people (myself included) first go about working on timing is to put on a click and play a groove along with it. There's nothing wrong with that, it will work great for a beginner and if you've never done it before it'll really sort out a lot of problems. But there comes a point when pretty soon you stop getting a pay-off and you need to change your approach.

It's all in your mind

First off, you need to change how you think about timing. Separate the action from the outcome. Say you want to be punctual. You want to have good punctuality, you want to be able to punctualise well. It's a good thing to aim for.

I have a whole range of drummers that I teach. Some of them are punctual (I like that) some of them aren't (I dislike that). I've noticed that the punctual ones all have something in common. It's the most revealing trait that will determine whether or not someone is punctual. But it doesn't take an FBI profiler to figure out what it is.

They all turn up early.

Ok, maybe I'm being picky about semantics but punctuality is an outcome. Turning up early is the action that brings it about. If you make sure that you are early for wherever you are going then having good punctuality will take care of itself. A fuzzy idea becomes much easier to grasp and obtain by having a concrete easy action to perform.

So good timing, then, is an outcome. The action that brings it about is playing notes accurately. So rather than working on timing you need to be working on accuracy. How? For a start, you need to be playing lots and lots of different note types on a practice pad to a metrnome. You need to be switching between different note types so you don't fall into pre-established patterns. Understand that the "e" of a 1/16 note or the middle partial of a triple need to be play as accurately as the 1/4 note that you use to count in a song.

Priorities

I'm not suggesting that accuracy is all you'll need to bring about good timing. If only things really were that simple. You also need confidence to be able to keep going when you make mistakes. You need good co-ordination so that none of your limbs are feeling slow, heavy or "sticky". You need to have good feel to make sure that you fit the music you're playing etc.

The list goes on and on and, to be honest, I get terrified thinking about it. But there are no shortcuts and the work must be done. However, all these other qualities need a solid base to build from. To get caught up in these things without first developing your accuracy is like transporting oil without having safety measures in place to stop spills. Oh, wait...

Next time you're designing your practice schedule focus on accuracy, forget about timing.

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First things first...

Thanks to everyone who has been in touch and encouraged me to start writing again. I haven't been drumming much since February because of an old wrist condition that started to bother me. Other than keeping my gigging and teaching commitments, I've barely picked up a set of sticks. On the bright side though, it's given me time to work on my Xbox Gamerscore.

And I've used the time away from the kit to reflect on my drumming. I'm feeling like I've learned more over the last couple of months than I have in all my other years of playing. Yet, there's still way more to learn than I ever thought there could be.

So I've decided to give up on everything I was doing, start over and find a new approach. You can follow it through the Calendar and, of course, new articles.

So what's new?

Now that I'm back writing, you'll be seeing some changes.
- A new blog design
- Fresh articles, and
- Daily training entries

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Cheaters always win

You've played the lottery before. If not, then you know what it is. But do you know how cheating at it can help your drumming? Obviously, you can use the money you win to buy new gear, build your own studio, quit your job and spend all your time drumming. But this article has nothing to do with money. It's about practising. Stay with me on this, it will all make sense soon.

What practising is

Let's say you want to show off a new fill at band practise or at your next gig. You have to practise that fill first before you can do it. You need to completely ingraine that fill, not just in your mind but in your central nervous system. This is what people mean when they say that something is stored in your "muscle memory".

When you get to this stage you can play the fill on automatic pilot, you can play it without having to concentrate, you can play it while thinking about something else entirely and, most importantly, you can play it under any kind of pressure. This is the final stage in learning something on the drums.

What I'm saying here is that it's going to take a lot of work for you to be able to play that fill as well as you want. In fact, Wikipedia's article on Muscle Memory tells us that it takes around 740 repetitions "...of the same motion for your muscles to "memorize" the movements almost perfectly." Wow, 740.

As if that isn't enough

When you play live you have so much more to think about outside of what you're doing on the drums. So it's best if you don't think about what you're playing at all. You should be focusing just on HOW you're playing. Am I fitting in with the music? Is my audience enjoying this? How is my stage presence? Do I look cool enough? etc. On top of that you've also got to pay attention to your band, so the last thing you need is to be worrying about the next fill coming up. You know, the one that you almost managed last week?

Here's where practising helps. By practising you are effectively loading the fill into your system. You're programming it into yourself. You're hacking into your body. However you want to look at it you are fundamentally altering yourself. So that when the time comes for you to play the fill, it will flow right out of you with no effort on your part at all. If you practise enough, I guarantee it will happen.

Why is this like playing the lottery?

Imagine the picture: You're sitting at home with your lottery numbers hoping, praying that this time will be different. This time your numbers will come up. This time you'll win big. But do you? No! (you wouldn't be reading this if you did!) What are the chances that you'll win? For the UK lottery it's about 1 in 14 million. That means if you play the lottery 14 million times, you will win once.

Ouch.

I don't know about you but I don't like those odds. If you don't practise, what are the chances that you'll play the fill you want perfectly? Probably better than 1 in 14 million but they're still not good. How can you increase the chance that you'll win? Well there are 2 strategies: The 1st is to buy lots of tickets (in drumming terms, play lots of fills that you haven't practised. You're bound to get one right eventually...) But the 2nd and better way is to...

Cheat the lottery

Imagine the picture: You're sitting at home with your lottery numbers. You are cool, confident and composed. You are already opening the champagne because you know for sure that your numbers will come up. Why? Because you cheated. You stacked the odds in your favour. You made sure that your numbers were the only ones loaded into the machine.

In drumming terms, you loaded the fill into your muscle memory. So when the time comes to play live you are totally confident that you can pull it off. You actually have no choice but to play it right, in the same way that once you cheat the lottery you have no choice but to win.

Now those are the kind of odds that I like!

So can you be a good drummer without cheating at the lottery? Without practising? Well there is always a chance that somehow, someway, someday you'll manage it. But do I recommend it? No. Why leave it to chance? Instead, why not guarantee your success? All it takes is a little bit of hard work.

So get out, get practising, get cheating and win!

Alexander

What do you think? Do you like this article? Does it make sense? What would you do if you won the lottery? Maybe you HAVE won it?

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You begin to doubt yourself

Maybe everyone was right. Maybe you're wasting your time. Maybe you're no good at anything. You wonder if you'll ever be able to play like your heroes.

Does this sound familiar? I've felt like this a lot with my drumming and it's not a good place to be.

Fortunately, there are things you can do to get your motivation back.

Here are 6 of the best things that will get you back into the drumming groove again.

To start with, the most important thing is:

Don't panic

It's totally normal for your motivation to rise and fall. Just realise that it's a temporary phase and that you will get through it. Try your best at this time to...

Make a commitment

You need to be honest with yourself: When I first started out I convinced myself that I had stopped practising because I was feeling unmotivated. But in reality what happened was that I stopped practising, so I stopped getting better which made me feel unmotivated. Make a commitment to practise for even just 5 minutes a day. Making even a little progress is better than none at all. It is still sending you in the right direction. At this stage you also need to...

Immerse yourself in music

Get out and go to as many gigs as you can. Travel to festivals, big stadium gigs, small club gigs, see your friends play... even just get out to the small bar round the corner where the jazz guys play on a sunday night. See everything that you can and you'll remember why you fell in love with drumming in the first place. While you're out seeing bands, make sure that you also...

Make new friends

Seek out people who are already doing want you want to do. Just making contact and being around them makes you realise that its not as difficult as you think. Gigs, music shops are always good places to meet other musicians. But you don't even have to leave the house! Use Twitter, Facebook or grab someone's email from their website and get in touch. Musicians are a social bunch of people. If you find it difficult to get in touch with who you want then you can always just...

Read books

Auto-biographies are great. You'll find out that all your heroes will have gone through similar periods to how you are feeling just now. Even Rocky Balboa has doubted himself at some points. Of course, if none of this works you could always...

Just quit

Maybe this one won't be helpful to you but think about it: what's the worst that could happen if you do quit? Either you'll move on and find something else that you enjoy more or you'll come back to drumming with a bigger motivation than ever. Whatever happens, you can't lose.

These tips have all helped me out at some point. If you find them useful, let me know by hitting the "Tweet This" button at the bottom of the article.

Alexander

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Last part in the grip series

By now you know why your grip is important, you know which grip you should be using, you know which part of your grip you have been overlooking and now... you can put all this information into action and turn your current grip into a new one that will allow you to take over the world (seriously).

So the first thing you need to do to change your bad grip into a good one is:

1. Learn

Make sure you have at least read my other articles in this series. But don't stop there. Look around for videos of your favourite drummers, go and see bands play live, ask questions to other drummers on Twitter. That's what I do. But my personal favourite is to get a teacher. Not only do you get to see their grip and technique but you can ask them specific questions and get coaching on how best to improve your grip.

2. Practise

So once you know what your grip should be like you need to work on it. Really work on it. You have new things to learn; new inputs to write into your system; new movements to hack. Ultimately, it's how many hours you are willing to put in on your practice pad that will dictate the speed of your progress and set you apart from other drummers.

3. Focus

Try and be as present as you can while you are practising. What I mean by that is pay attention to what you are doing; how much pressure you are applying; how the sticks are feeling. Really focus on what's going on and don't let your mind wander. Everytime it does bring it back to how the sticks feel in your hands. It's up to you to make yourself pay attention.

4. Wait

It's not easy to completely change your grip. Especially if you have been playing with a poor grip for a while and you've stumbled into bad habits. Don't be hard on yourself if your don't see results instantly. Just remember that if you work on this for long enough, results are guaranteed.

5. Slow down

You have so much to think about here so don't rush your practise. The faster you play with your new grip, the more difficult it will be for your brain to take the new information on board and remember. It's like when someone talks to you. The faster they talk, the more difficult they are to understand. So give yourself a break and take your time!

6. Check

The best way to hack new movements is on your practice pad with easy, slow patterns. It's much easier to focus that way. But while you're just jamming by yourself, playing to music or playing with your band check your grip from time to time and make sure that things are still looking like how they did on your practice pad. Don't over analyse yourself or you'll kill the music! It's enough to just notice what you're doing every now and again.

7. Compare

Comparing yourself to other drummers is a great way to assess how you're getting on and what you need to be working on but if you do it constantly you'll feel like you are making no progress at all. In the same way, don't compare your left hand to your right too much. You left will always feel a little worse than your right (or vice-versa for left handers). So, when you do compare, it's more useful to compare yourself to how you were last year (not Taylor Hawkins) and compare your left to how it was last year (not your right).

I hope this helps you on your never-ending journey as a drummer!

Oh and did I mention practise?

Alexander

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Notice that pinky. Source: Sonny Side Up!

I use this phrase a lot but...

This changed everything for me and it affected so many parts of my playing:

• Increased endurance
• More power
• Faster singles
• Less tension
• More control
• Less aches and pains
• No more blisters

So far in my series on Drumstick Grip, we have talked about why your grip is impoartant, and you also which of the two grips you should use. Now its time to drill down into what you're hands are actually doing.

There are two parts to this. First, let's take a look at the part of your grip that you'll already be familiar with:

The front of your grip

This is also called your fulcrum. It's the point where your stick balances. It's made by either pinching the stick between your thumb and index finger or between your thumb and middle finger. Most people focus their presssure here instinctively and some people focus all of their pressure here.

Try and keep this as loose as possible. Any tension here will kill the energy in your stick and stop it from bouncing. The only time when you need a lot of pressure here is when you are playing buzz rolls. Otherwise, just hold tight enough to stop the stick falling out of your hand.

What you need is a shift in where you focus your grip. From the front, to the most overlooked part:

The back of your grip

A lot of people don't even know that this exists. It involves the fingers that aren't being used in the front of the grip: namely your pinky, 3rd finger and maybe your middle finger. These fingers wrap around the stick and help pull it into your palm. These fingers should always be in contact with your stick. As soon as they leave it, you lose your control.

Have a look at the way you play. If any of your back 3 fingers are not touching the stick or, worse still, are sticking out into the air like a posh gentleman drinking his tea then you're in trouble. You are not using the back of your grip.

How to learn to use the back of your grip

The best way is to try just holding on with the back of your grip for a few days. In other words, hold the stick with your pinky, 3rd finger and middle finger only. Straighten your thumb and index finger and remove them completely from your stick.

When you play you will see that the stick bounces in a totally different way. It has more energy and bounces higher because the front of your grip isn't getting in the way anymore. That's great, that's what you want because

1. You get more power
2. You do less work, and
3. Fewer vibrations travel back into your hands.

I still make it a point that whenever I hit my snare, I remove my thumb, index finger and middle finger from the stick (read more about this in How to play Wrist Technique). You'll find that this takes a little while to get used to but it does make sure that your hand doesn't soak up any vibrations (very helpful if you play a lot of rimshots).

So try this out, switch to the back of your grip for a few days and get a feel for a more balanced, effortless grip.

Alexander

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French and German Drumstick Grip

There's only one way to find out

In the previous part to this series on grip, we talked about Why Your Drumstick Grip Is So Important. Now we're going to look at what type of grip you should be using.

To know which grip is best for you, you're going to have to spend a bit of time with each one, discover the benefits and use the one that works best for you.

I'll give you my personal recommendations in this article but everyone is different so what works best for me may not be what works best for you.

Before you go any further make sure you are familiar with What Forearm Rotation Is and How Your Wrist Works. These two posts fully explain the anatomical concepts used in this article.

French grip

For this to work, your hand needs to be halfway between the pronatated and supinated position. Your thumbs should be on top of the stick and your palms should be facing each other. Take at look at my butler, Jarvis, in the left hand photo. You'll see that in this position your sticks will be nearly parallel to each other.

You play notes by either:

• Rotating your forearm toward the drum
• Using ulnar deviation, or
• Using your elbow (similar to how you would use a hammer)

French grip is also great for allowing your fingers access to the stick and feels comfortable when you play straight, unaccented notes on your hi-hats or ride.

German grip

Your hand must be in the pronated position. Your palms facing down the way this time and your thumbs pointing at each other. Your arms now swing out a little to the side and your sticks make an upside-down "V" with an angle between them.

This lets you move your wrist in the most natural way possible: flexion and extension (also called Wrist Technique).

German grip is great if you need a bit more control or if you have to play accents or notes of different volumes eg. when using the Moeller Method.

So which one should you use?

It depends a lot on what you're playing. If you're playing lots of quick notes then french is a good grip because it lets you easily trigger the stick with your fingers. If you're playing lots of accents and ghost notes then German is the best one because it gives you more control over stick heights. I use both of these techniques in my playing. It's probably about 20% French and 80% German.

So the title of this article is misleading: "Should you use french or german grip?" Well why not use both? Or neither of them at all? Often I'll play with my hands halfway in between the two positions (sometimes called american grip). Or I'll play with my hand fully supinated if I need to move about the kit quickly or just want a lazy way of playing my ride.

Technique is something that you should learn once, forget about and then focus on making music.

Alexander

So which grip you been using so far? Do you intend to stick with it? Maybe you've tried both? If so, which one works better for you?

Leave your thoughts and wisdom in the comments below.

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Drums are a weird instrument

With most other instruments you have to hold them or at least touch them in order to play them eg. guitar, saxophone, trumpet, harp, violin etc. But with drums (and percussion instruments in general) you don't actually touch them. On a drum kit you're either hitting things with sticks or pushing pedals with your feet. But you never come into contact with the drums or cymbals themselves.

So the main point of contact that you have with your instrument is your sticks. If you have a bad grip on your sticks then you'll play badly. This is why so many drummers recommend that you practise for hours on a pad because once you get control over your sticks then playing drums becomes so much easier.

Nick (one of my Facebook friends) suggested that I make holding drumsticks a blog topic. He rightly pointed out that there are "...drummers who have played for over 10 years without correct grip and as soon as they've corrected this they are able to play much more faster and efficiently." So upon his request this is the first in a series of articles on drumstick grip.

Prepare yourself

Between now and the next article, take a bit of time while you are playing and focus your attention on how you are holding the sticks. How does it feel?

Does it feel natural? Awkward? Do you feel in control of your sticks? Is there any tension in your hands? Arms? Wrists? Fingers? Are you relaxed? Are the sticks rubbing against your hands? Do you hold them in a vice-like death grip? Do you drop your sticks a lot? How much vibration travels back into your arms?

After you've spent some time on this you may find that you are completely happy with your grip. If so, don't change it! You know the old saying: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

But if you think that your grip could be improved then read the next few articles that I'll be putting out. Stick with them and you'll thank me for it later!

Alexander

How is your grip? Maybe you've never paid attention to it before. Maybe you've noticed that improving your grip has improved your playing? Is grip really important anyway?

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The 50th Article from MakeDrumWork.com

This post is a huge milestone so I really wanted to make it special for you.

I decided to collect 50 of the best songs for drumming.

I'll be honest: I got stuck pretty quick.

But instead of giving up, I asked people who are smarter than me for help.

So what follows are the suggestions of my cool, clever, beautiful friends on Twitter and Facebook. With a few of my own thrown in as well.

Enjoy!

Sylviaweeeee

1. Creep - Radiohead
2. This Love - Maroon 5

TroisNyxEtienne

3. Sanctuary - Utada Hikaru

Ignacio

4. George of the Jungle

DrumLessonsBB10

5. Rosanna - Toto

blairfrazer

6. Moby Dick - Led Zepplin

xoorox

7. Roxanne - The Police
8. Funky Drummer - James Brown
9. Chameleon - Herbie Hancock
10. Soul Vaccination - Tower of Power
11. Vital Transformation - Mahavishnu Orchestra
12. Jazz Crimes - Joshua Redman
13. Monster Mash - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

stuheez

14. Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

Col

15. Arise - Sepultura

immortalliam

16. The Prayer - Bloc Party

beatsworking

17. No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
18. Where Eagles Dare - Iron Maiden
19. Assassin - Muse
20. My Generation - The Who
21. Back In Black - AC/DC
22. Tom Sawyer - Rush
23. Deadwing - Porcupine Tree

Andrew

24. In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins

Bel

25. Ticks and Leeches - Tool

drumrolls

26. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
27. Aja - Steely Dan
28. October Road - James Taylor

Inkysmudge

29. Lyric - Zwan
30. Voices - Dream Theatre
31. My Hero - Foo Fighters

Alexander's Suggestions

32. Amen, Brother - The Winstons
33. Don't Stop Believing - Journey
34. Apache - Incredible Bongo Band
35. Miss You - Blink 182
36. Supersonic - Oasis
37. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
38. Beat It - Michael Jackson
39. Gonna Fly Now - Bill Conti
40. The Model - Kraftwerk
41. The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
42. Cissy Strut - The Meters
43. All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
44. Rockstar - Nickelback
45. Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
46. Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
47. She Loves You - The Beatles
48. Show me what You Got - Jay-Z
49. Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
50. Mars, Bringer of War - Gustav Holst

What do you reckon? Do you think this is a good list? Maybe there are tracks that need to be added to it? Or tracks taken out of it?

Leave your thoughts and wisdom in the comments.

Alex

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