Unlock Limb Independence On Drums 🥁

[@kaitlingeronimo]

I'm so glad to hear another musician say this! I teach piano and have to reiterate this many students. I understand that they just wanna play their songs fast from the get-go, but I'm going to dramatically slow them down with all the messiness and hesitation.😭 Great video!

[@love_to_learn_drums]

1000%! Thank you so much 😊

[@danielkushner2217]

Thanks!

[@love_to_learn_drums]

Wow! Thank you so much!!

[@rocketcello5354]

I've done cello for 10 years, and this is something that I've done a lot with cello, but I've never thought to do it on drums, somehow. Thanks for the reminder!

[@CanadianUnicornDeathSquad]

As a beginner in physically playing drums, with decades of programming experience, this has been my biggest issue.

[@honymissy]

I'm a programmer too 😂😂😂...same issue here

[@RivaldoAldoduapuluhlimajuli]

Programmer here too, although i'm just junior hehehe. A piece of advise (although it is particularly similar to the video's advice), is slowdown, and zoom in... I have these similar problems with limb independence while I was trying to follow the drum parts of The Pineapple Thief's In Exile (Gavin Harrison's playing in it). When the hard part comes, I always try to listen first of what's happening (zooming in) in the music itself. I remember at the pre-bridge part, Gavin Harrison is somehow accented 3's in 8 (CMIIW) of closed/open hi hats (kinda like disco feel, but instead he opens the hihats on the beat, instead on the backbeat), while his left hand is "traveling around the toms", his left foot is opening & closing the hi hats, and his right foot is hitting bass at some odd placing notes.... I stopped, hear the parts over and over to understand what's going on, and then doing it on a VERY SLOW TEMPO. Like the videos said, play it slow until you cannot do it wrong. The trick here is always to find your favorite song, and then play along to follow the drum parts, because the drummer of the song will do some unique things that we can learn, including on limb independence...

[@hzilla5550]

Yeah . It was explained to me when you play notes, think of it like entering data points. If you enter them exactly on the exact right time line, it is easier to speed it up -all the data has been inputed in the correct time sequence. If you try to start too quickly, you wind up entering the data in the wrong time sequence and it remains wrong as you speed it up. Then you have two tasks: unlearning and relearning.

[@georgespencer3973]

Excellent advice. Thank you!

[@greggarmin9426]

So young So wise

[@stefanpaul4439]

Love your work 😊

[@love_to_learn_drums]

Thank you so much 😀

[@sylviewheeler6237]

You are spot on ! Super excellent!

[@love_to_learn_drums]

Thank you! 😊

[@tom_something]

This was a major stopping force in my attempts to learn the drums when I was younger. I couldn't get that independence or any significant ostinato going. Even something like a Swiss triplet, I don't "feel" like I'm doing triplets and duplets with my hands. I had to learn what a Swiss triplet sounded like, and I'm doing a rhythm instead of subdivisions. Plus I always felt like I was going to fall off the stool any time there was too much happening with my feet.

[@kevinturvey8213]

truly excellent advice! i remember that first time of feeling independence as a magical breakthrough moment! i have to admit that i am still more of an "inter-dependent" drummer though!

[@gcorriveau6864]

This is such excellent advice! Thanks for sharing.

[@love_to_learn_drums]

Thank you for watching, I'm glad I could help!

[@Press4ward_]

Best advice yet❤

[@keithmccann6601]

i'm not even a drummer and i love these lessons - i do play guitar a bit though and this practice advice is the same for that too i think - great content :)

[@hzilla5550]

A weird phenomenon I have noticed when I started learning the paradiddle two years ago, I skipped the accents and got my tempo up to let us say "midspeed." But then when I tried to start accenting the first stroke on each side, I couldn't do it, and when I slowed down, I couldn't play the paradiddle at the speed I had started out. I'm now having to essentially relearn everything. And now at 69 having puttered for 32 years on my kit, there is hell to pay. There are no shortcuts!

[@jeffparisse4202]

Interesting… I’m 62, professional for 40 years. I’m learning new things on KZbin and came across this channel and was curious as to why examples were presented so slowly. This explains the hypothesis… I’m going to give it a try as unnatural as it seems to me. BTW, excellent presentations with enthusiasm! 👏

[@love_to_learn_drums]

There is always something new to learn! I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thank you for watching 😊

[@danielkushner2217]

Thank you for reminding me of this As kids, we have all the time in the world and aren’t afraid of slowing it down ( how the hell did I learn drum corps rudiments as a teenager… simple, slowing it down) As adults we feel pressured for time and muck it all up But if we slow it down, soon youre flying

[@love_to_learn_drums]

I feel that pain! It's all about patience and practice 😊

[@bencooper6983]

Fantastic ✨️

[@love_to_learn_drums]

Thanks 🤗

[@billburch6697]

Getting my left hand to participate wasn't easy. What helped was doing everyday tasks left-handed. Stirring the soup, brushing teeth, ect

[@love_to_learn_drums]

That's great advice! Lot's of drummers struggle with this. I wrote a free eBook specifically on the topic of strenghtening your left hand called the Equaliser! You can download it for free here if you're interested 😊 www.alpynehq.com/product-page/the-equaliser-left-hand-matrix

[@cristianoattanasi6028]

Jees you so good

[@AdversaryNemesis1124]

You are the BEST!!

[@cbolt4492]

0:28 Great information 😎

[@ClarenceHW]

Great advice! Works with other instruments as well! :-)

[@mocata559]

Is that you singing at 0:10?

[@Desmolas]

Whodathunk that time was so key to playing an instrument responsible for....timing....

[@casto65]

What kind of drumsticks do you use? I have seen, you use different kinds of sticks!? Sorry für my english an greetings from Hamburg, Germany. 😊

[@eddiegarcia9657]

❤️

[@viky0476]

I have a big problem! Slowliest igo more mistake i make! I dunno why! Olso a big problem for me is countingit complitely disconect my limbs from my brain!😢😢😢

[@Practicalmusicministryskil4906]

This is awesome- thanks! I share a free, step-by-step music literacy course on my KZbin channel in the hopes of making the skill of reading music accessible to all.

[@love_to_learn_drums]

That's amazing! Making music accessible is literally our motto!

[@FRANKLOMBARDI-iv5xs]

I hear that Emma..Happy Holidays. I cant play fast not even Guitar.I will start messing up..I play what i could play.and have Fun.Make some noise.Love your videos.I think your a Trip..Funny..❤🌲🌲😁🎸👍✌️🌈

[@gzig61]

Not only are you a great drummer and teacher but you are funny as s***