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

Fastest Way To Get Faster: Do You Even Math? – Drum Lesson

– Hey everyone, it’s Jared here and we are on the fourth lesson of my fastest way to get faster series Now this one’s called

‘Do You Even Math?’ and I was a terrible math student. I pretty much failed math. But I promise we’re

not gonna really get into anything too complex. Now the first lesson is playing the sixteenth notes and it’s in two four.

It’s just two groups of sixteenth notes. Two on the snare, two on the high tom, two on the mid tom,

two on the floor tom. If you don’t have the mid tom, just play your ride there instead. Alright, this is how it sounds

both slow and fast speeds. In the next exercise, we go from groups of two, what we just did, into groups of four.

So we’re playing four on the snare, four on the high tom, four on the mid tom, four on the floor tom.

Now as you start playing this exercise in sequence, you’re gonna notice when you get to your floor tom and go right left

right left that your right hand needs to get over here quite quickly. At the slower tempos, it’s not that challenging

but once you get to the faster tempos like 180 or higher, you’re gonna notice that there’s a bit

of a traffic jam. So be careful, you know, go up slowly in increments of five beats per minute

so you don’t bash your hand or hurt yourself. Here it is, played at both slow and fast speeds. And the third exercise is

also in sixteenth notes, but now we’re gonna play it in groups of six. Okay, so groups of six played in sixteenth notes

is a little bit funky, but I don’t think you’ll have a problem with it. It’s in six four time

signature, meaning that there’s six quarter notes in the bar, and we’re just playing six sixteenth notes

on each drum. And the final exercise is actually two bars and it’s played with eight notes on each drum.

So eight on the snare, eight on the high tom, eight on the mid tom, eight on the floor tom. So let me play this for you

both slow and fast speeds. Now all these exercises played individually, they sound great and it’s something I want

you to work on individuallly because that really gets you comfortable with your drum set, that gets you moving

fluidly around the drums, and it’s also, it’s kind of like an exercise routine, you know? Forget about aerobics, forget about yoga,

all that kind of stuff, just play drums and, you know, lose weight, get healthy, right? So what I like to do is

play them in sequence, so two, four, six, and eight. Who do we appreciate? Mr. Kyle, Mr. Taylor over there and

that’s who I appreciate. Alright guys, let’s play this in sequence both slow and fast speeds. Wish me luck.

Now I want you to practice each of these patterns for five minutes, then I want you to practice them in

sequence for ten minutes, and that is your speed building routine for the day. Start at a tempo you’re comfortable with.

So, 60 or 70 beats per minute, and then just increase it five or ten BPM each time as you just really

get comfortable with that pattern. So thanks for watching. Now get your butt on your kit and do some work.

That’s what it’s going to take, it’s gonna take actual real work to get faster. See ya later.

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The fourth lesson in my “Fastest Way To Get Faster” series is focused around orchestrating the single stroke roll around the snare and toms with different groupings.

The biggest challenge you’ll face while working through this is transitioning from the floor tom back to your snare drum. Your hands will crossover one another, so remember to start slow so you don’t catch a stick in the face.

Play each exercise individually for 5 minutes, then play them in sequence for 10 minutes.