I'm gonna show you how to reach faster double bass speeds with this technique
so you can play longer behind the drums coming right up!
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have been asking me why they can't play faster and how they can play faster I'm
going to show you three things that will help you play faster for longer the
first thing we need to look at is our positioning behind the drums and how we
use the leg motion let's look at that the hip flexor is this upper region of
the leg here and it'd be quite fair I use the motion quite a bit when I'm
playing at slower tempos basically you're pushing down with your whole leg
and you're retracting it thus creating a bass drum hit so it's gonna look
something like this now the downfall with just the leg technique is that at
faster speeds after a long period of time you become tired and you end up
losing steam pretty quickly fortunately for us we also have a small grouping of
muscles and in and around our ankles and that's the motion I want to show you how
to switch to from the leg motion now the ankle has a lot smaller muscle groups
and if we're able to properly control them we can play at a much quicker tempo
with less physical exertion to start things off we can begin by resting our
foot on the ground so just take it off your pedal so that I can show you the
movement you're trying to mimic now if you take your hip flexor and you just
raise it off the ground so that your heel is not touching the ground we can
begin by resting our foot here and then raising it up in full range of motion
and then tapping the ground with our toe it's much like bouncing a ball under our
foot as many other drummers have proclaimed now you're gonna notice going
from the ground with your foot off the pedal onto the pedal it's quite
different for obvious reasons and a lot of that has to do with the fact
the spring tension actually increases rebound from the pedal after it hits
down so you don't have that there to help guide your foot this is a really
good exercise do it off the foot pedal and practice it nice and slow moving
forward if you're interested in my pedal settings and how tight the springs are
I'll put a card up here so you can check out my other video where I tell you
about that back to the lesson one crucial part of this technique is that
we keep our heel off of the double pedal foot board and this is so that our range
of motion is much greater the reason we want that is because the smaller motion
the less control we have over it which is what causes a lot of players to
twitch nervously behind the pedals you can see them start off here but then
halfway through the phrase they end up here and you have to make a way smaller
motion to make the same impact now remember do it nice and slow
before you try going really fast we want to prevent injury and bad technique over
time if you're going to increase from a slower BPM to faster BPM then do it in
small increments of 5 now that we've kind of figured out our ankle motion we
need to be able to maneuver between the full leg movement and the ankle motion
now this is a little tricky because we're using two different parts of the
leg and we need total control of the two you should also keep in mind that we
need to make sure we're working with the pedal and not against it the tension is
in the spring and that's what's causing the pedal to rebound so everyone's pedal
is going to be different and making sure that your foot stays in motion with the
pedal is a must because we don't want to work against it after all and that will
kind of deter the purpose of this technique the way I suggest practicing
it is making sure your feet are further up the pedal board and not all the way
back at the heel plate we want full range of motion for maximum amount of
power and our double pedal playing so put them both here
I've got a short exercise I want to demonstrate for you and it's as follows
the first two beats are eighth notes and then the second two beats are sixteenth
notes the eighth notes use the leg motion and then the sixteenth notes use
the ankle motion it's going to look and sound something like this if you caught
on to that technique pretty quickly I'm gonna put up a video here that talks
about double bass permutation and you can use that technique on those
exercises and if you haven't already you can click on the round subscribe icon so
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