Fastest Way To Get Faster – Drum Lesson Series By Jared Falk

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(jazz music) (tapping) (drum beats) – Hey everyone it’s Jared here and I’m excited to be back

for the second edition of my fastest way to get faster lesson series. Now the first series did incredible.

It reached hundreds of thousands of drummers all around the world. So I’m stoked to be back to give you some new lessons

in stuff that I’ve been working on that’s really really been helping me. So let’s get started

into the lesson. Now speed is one of those things that, it’s kind of a touchy subject. Lots of drummers want to go fast

but they don’t really always understand why. Or why they need to. Now going fast around the drums, when you show non drummers

that you can do that, they’re all impressed right. So if you wanna impress your friend, or you wanna impress

your family member, your boyfriend or girlfriend, and you go really really fast around the drums, they’re right aways gonna

think you’re a good drummer. Now being able to go fast around the drums, doesn’t mean you’re a good drummer,

it just means you can go fast. Now it’s one of these techniques that we want to have in our toolbox but it isn’t totally necessary.

There are lots of successful drummers that really can’t play that fast. Now I like to play fast

because I use it within a lot of the music I play, I use it within a lot of the solos. So it’s a tool that I like

to have in my toolbox. But it’s not a necessary tool that you must have. Another thing what I say is speed without

control is useless. I once heard Chris Coleman say that if you had a Ferrari without brakes, you wouldn’t be alive very long.

‘Cause you take that thing down the road going super fast, you try and hit those breaks and you have no control. So it’s really important

to use this tool wisely. Don’t overuse it in musical situations. Because that’s gonna get you fired.

So the first exercise that I prepared is called Paradiddle Madness. Now I first got this name from listening to a solo

by Mike Michalkow, one of my teachers. He did this solo in one of his lesson DVDs, called Moeller Method Secrets.

And it was only used in paradiddles, just the single paradiddle. And it’s this crazy, dynamic, really interesting solo,

and so I kind of stole his main idea and applied it to this exercise. Now this exercise uses the triple paradiddle,

the double paradiddle, and the single paradiddle. So before you get into this exercise, just practice each of those

paradiddles individually. Once you kind of get them under your hands, we can start to apply this exercise.

So this starts on the snare drum, and just moves down and then up the drums. Now the triple paradiddle

is the perfect exercise to go all the way down the drums and move back up. Because it changes lead hands. So it goes right left,

right left, right left, right right, and then it starts with the left hand. Left right, left right, left right, left left, watch.

(drum beats) So it’s very very nice how it just naturally repeats itself. If you don’t have the mid

tom, use the right cymbal. So let me play this for you at 60 and 180 beats per minute. (tapping) (drum beats)

(timing beeps) The next is the double paradiddle and we’re gonna apply it in a similar way except

we’re not gonna go all the way down the drums, we’re gonna stop here on the mid tom, or your right cymbal if

you don’t have a mid tom. This would look like this. (drum beats) Let me play this for you at 60 and 180 beats per minute.

(tapping) (drum beats) (timing beeps) And finally, we have the single paradiddle.

Now just like we took off one drum for the double paradiddle, we’re only gonna play the single paradiddle

between the snare and the high tom. Like this. (drum beats) Again, I’ll play it for you at

60 and 180 beats per minute. (tapping) (drum beats) (timing beeps) So you notice I wrote

the triple paradiddle in a bar of four four. I wrote the double paradiddle in a bar of three four. And I wrote the single

paradiddle in a bar of two four. The whole exercise works out to be nine total beats. So let me play it for you in its entirety,

moving from the triple, to the double, to the single, to the triple, to the double, to the single. I’m gonna do it for you at

both slow and fast speeds. Here we go. (tapping) (drum beats) (timing beeps)

So I’d recommend you start this at a tempo you’re comfortable with and then just slowly increase that in increments of five

beats per minute at a time. I showed you where you’d start. So I would start at around 50 or 60 beats per minute. And then where I’m

at is around 180, and it’s still not perfectly clean, but that’s kind of what I’m working on there.

So I kinda showed you the tempo that I’m still really working on. I need to be really warmed up to be able to play it

at that tempo. So you can push it even much faster than that I’m sure. But do your best to start slow and then

just increase it over time. Getting faster isn’t about going from zero to 100 miles an hour or from 60 to 180. It’s really about making slow

and incremental improvements. I’m demonstrating it a little bit differently here for you just to show you kinda what’s possible

if you put in some work. Because I started at 50 or 60 beats per minute. And now I can play it much faster than that,

just because of the amount of time that I invested and the amount of time I practiced this. So go ahead, get to your

kit, start practicing. I’d recommend spending around five minutes on each of those exercises. And then spend around 15

minutes on the entire exercise all put together. Get to your kit, start practicing. (jazz music)