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Tips for practicing rudiments? (lemmy.world)

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I've been a musician for quite a while but finally bought myself a drum kit.

As a guitarist I know not all practice is good practice, or at least productive practice. For example, practicing scales up and down the neck will help learn those scales... but can make soloing sound super robotic.

Was hoping to get some advice for being productive while practicing rudiments, but any other practice advice is welcome too :)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My routine is to take a page from Stick Control for the Snare Drummer, put on a metronome app which had a counter, and move to the next rudiment after 50 repeats. Starts boring but after a while you get to this point where your like "oh lol I'm already at 300 repeats?".

Sometimes watching something if its slow and easy enough that you can keep a correct form without thinking. Keeping the form right is key here ("practise makes permanent, so practice perfectly").

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I like repetition like that, I've been treating it as a meditation session lol. What metronome app do you use? I've never seen one with a counter (not that I've tried all that many).