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

Fastest Way To Get Faster: Do You Even Math (Pt. 2) – Drum Lesson

(upbeat rock music) (drumming music) – Now for the eighth lesson and The Fastest Way to Get Faster series

we have a sequel. Now many people say the sequel is never as good as the original and usually that’s the case. But I’m hopefully gonna

dispel that theory here and now, today with the second edition of Do You Even Math starring yours truly,

Mr. Jared Falk. (chuckles) Alright, so, that’s a little bit of an evil laugh.

(laughs) Let’s get into it. Exercise one is just 16th note triplets. Now we’re playing with our

hands on all the eighth notes. So one and two and three and four and. And then the base drum doubles are going in between.

So it sounds like this. (drumming music) So I’ll play a few at both slow and fast tempos now.

(light tempo clicking) (drumming music) Now the next exercise gets a little bit crazy, because we’re gonna

do groups of five between the hands and the feet. So right bass, left bass, bass. One, two, three, four, five.

Now this played at 16th note triplets can a little bit challenging. You’ll notice, I’ve set my click,

which I’m using an app called Tempo. I set my click to play all of the triplets. The eight note triplets

and then basically for every time you’re hearing the, (mimics clicking) I’m playing two 16th note triplets.

It just helps me keep the beat better and not go off time so much because they can get a little bit challenging.

So it’s really important to play it nice and slow and if you need to just go in really slow and count it out loud.

So I count 16th note triplets one triplet and triplet. So one triplet, and triplet. (soft drumming) Two triplet and triplet,

three triplet and triplet, four triplet and triplet, five triplet and triplet. So you notice it’s played in five four

and it resolves naturally when you play groups of five 16th note triplets in five four. Alright, so here we go. Both slow and faster speeds.

(light tempo clicking) (drumming music) It sounds a little bit funky, doesn’t it? Now it’s definitely

gonna be hard when you first start practicing this but if you want, if you’re kind of just,

I don’t wanna play it at 16th note triplets, or you don’t wanna have to learn how it relates to time so much,

you can just practice the basic pattern as well which is right bass, left bass, bass. (drumming music)

So there I didn’t play with any really time reference, I just practiced the pattern, really got comfortable with the technique.

And then you can also do that with exercise one. And you can do it with the next exercise which is also played

at 16th note triplets, but we’re playing groups of seven. Now I’ve written this one in seven four,

so it also naturally resolves itself. So if you count it out nice and slow. One triplet and triplet,

two triplet and triplet, three triplet and triplet, four triplet and triplet, five triplet and triplet, six triplet and triplet,

seven triplet and triplet. And we’re done. It’s hard to count that and play it at the same time. But, the way I kind

of think of it is, I play it right, right left right, left right left, and I do that rotation three times.

Okay, so. (drumming music) Who doesn’t wanna end with a cowbell, right? So you play that

rotation three times at 16th note triplets and that gives you your one bar of seven four. So here it is played both

slow and fast speeds. (light tempo clicking) (drumming music) Again, if you just like to work on the pattern, and

not really apply it to a specific note value, you can do that as well. Just start moving around the kit like this.

(drumming music) It’s really fun just to orchestrate it around the kit and practice it on its own

just as a piece of vocabulary that you could have in your toolbox. You might wanna apply the 16th notes,

or 32nd notes, or eighth note triplets. Whatever the case, just learn that pattern, learn how to play the hands

in between the feet and you’re gonna notice huge improvements in your speed, fluidity and most importantly, your control around

the drum set. So practice each of these exercises for five minutes in your daily practice routine

and then practice them as a sequence for 15 minutes. So let me play a few as the entire

sequence right now. Both slow and fast speeds. (light tempo clicking) (drumming music) So that is the end

of the eighth lesson in The Fastest Way to Get Faster series. Now take this to your kit and start practicing.

If you do get it going nice and fast or even if you just get it going in a nice moderate tempo, please film yourself playing it,

share with the entire community. Whether that’s on Instagram, Facebook, wherever, we’d love to see your progress and I’d love to see how

you’re applying this in your every day drumming. So thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next lesson.

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In the eighth lesson of my “Fastest Way To Get Faster” series, I’m going to challenge your abilities as we play groupings of three, five, and seven between the hands and feet – all in 16th note triplets! I would start each at 50-60bpm and speed them up in 5bpm increments as you get comfortable.

Play each exercise individually for 5 minutes, then play them in sequence for 15 minutes.