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

Fastest Way To Get Faster: The Buddy Bruiser – Drum Lesson

(rock music) (hitting drumsticks) (playing drums) – Hey everyone, it’s Jared here, back with you

in the second lesson in my Fastest Way To Get Faster series. Now I call this lesson the Buddy bruiser.

I used to listen to tapes of Buddy Rich back when I was first learning drums, and he had such a brash

and aggressive personality, and then you listen to him play, and the intensity and the stuff that he was doing on the kit

just matched his personality, I would say. I call this the Buddy bruiser, just because it sounds like something Buddy would play,

but I can’t say it is something that he played. Now I first heard of an exercise similar to this from Thomas Lang.

He went in between the floor tom and the snare drum in groups of three, starting on the floor tom. So then the snare would line

up with the left hand lead so you wouldn’t have to try and get your right hand over if you’re leading with your right hand.

I’ll show you it nice and slow. (hitting drums) So you see, after the first three strokes on the floor tom I’m able to move to

the snare drum easily because I’m leading with my left hand. Now the way I built out this exercise

is I started on the floor tom, go to the snare, go back to the floor tom, and then go to the high tom. So let me play this for you

at 60 and 220 beats per minute to show you how it sounds nice and slow, and also really fast. (hitting drumsticks)

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The next exercise is simply a variation on that. We go from the floor tom to the snare to the floor tom

then the mid tom. So practice this the same way as you did the first exercise. Here it is both slow and fast. (hitting drumsticks)

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And finally, we’re gonna put it all together. We’re gonna play both exercises in sequence. So let’s start on the

floor tom, go to the snare, then the floor and the high tom, floor tom and the snare, floor tom the mid tom. Here it is at 60 and

220 beats per minute. (hitting drumsticks) (playing drums) (metronome beeping) (hitting drumsticks)

(playing drums) (metronome beeping) Now you can start this anywhere between 60 and 80 beats per minute,

depending on where your comfort level is at. Because it’s triplets you might want to start it a little bit faster

than the 60 BPM that I always seem to recommend. I’d recommend moving up in five or 10 BPM increments. Practice each exercise

for 10 minutes, and then practice them in sequence for 10 minutes. So it’s a total of 30 minutes every time you sit down

and practice this type of exercise. You’re gonna notice that you have way more freedom when moving around the drum set.

You’re really gonna get to know your setup, and you’re gonna find the little areas where you maybe need to

make some adjustments, especially on those toms as you move from the floor tom to the high tom. So there it is,

the second lesson in my Fastest Way To Get Faster series Get to your kit, practice this right now, go.

Go. Now. (slow rock music)

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Welcome to the second lesson in my “Fastest Way To Get Faster” series. Back when we had Thomas Lang out to Drumeo, he showed me an exercise which consisted of 3 notes on the floor tom and 3 notes on the snare drum using single strokes. This inspired me to write this exercise which I call “The Buddy Bruiser” because it sounds like something Buddy Rich would play!

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