Sick of Boring Drum Rudiment Practice? Try These 4 Shortcuts

[anthonydratnal]

That singles to doubles transition is velvet smooth.

[Rockin_Ross]

Your humor just makes these! You’re not only a phenomenal player, but adding the “Nate from the future” type segments keeps the lesson light hearted and fun.
You rock, man!!🤘🏻🤘🏻

[highvibee]

This is part comedy and part high value information, therapy for "depressed" drummers. Thanks Nate!

[mcsequoia]

I must give you credit for getting me off the practice pad and onto the kit. I use the pad to work on technique and troubleshoot mechanics. But if I don't practice rudiments in a musical context, I can;t apply them to music.

[christianbond]

I wish I was talented enough to take your lessons and get the most out of them - great explanations and examples

[DonSandersonDrums]

Good morning Nate, I downloaded fun with rudiments this morning. I have enough chops to do what I want to do, but think sometimes chops can be self indulgent and not necessary to deliver the music. That being said, I am embarking on a daily 2 hour practice regiment. Rudiments will be part of it. When I was 21 I was in the Blue Devils, so I saw what can be achieved with rudimentary drumming. I will see how things are going in 30 days. Thanks for another great video.

[mcsequoia]

Some good ideas! Jim Chapin talked about expanding & collapsing rudiments. There's also moving the accent, inverting the standard rudiment or expanding the par-a-diddle to par-par-par-a-diddle or par-a-diddle-diddle-diddle (Steve Smith) and Garibaldi's Seven-a-diddles.

[diamonddave]

Great Video, I wish I practiced my rudiments more 50 years ago when i was a 10 year old beginner because now I'm just chopping wood.
Oh I can play them I just suck at them.

[caffeineadvocate]

Watching this an hour and a half before I go remotely teach some drum babies the 40 PASIC rudiments. Thanks, universe!

I turned learning them into a game show (with lame prizes, such as cymbal felts) and the students seem to dig it.

Question:

What is the silliest name for a rudiment, in your opinion (hybrid or standard)? Pataflafla? Double draggasinkadiddle? Cheese dachuddas? :)

[blangtonclickdark]

One of the cool aspects that I got from Alan Dawson was the Slow-Fast-Slows. These enabled me to focus on other types of time. As I do them I have to make the calculations of which limb(s) is in charge, who drives the accels and decells ( R or L hands, or feet depending on the voicing I am using on the set). Also, like the grace note in classical, the jazz ride anticipation note has a certain elasticity in the way the anticipation or grace note relates to the increasing tempo of the downbeats. In jazz ride terminology "flattening out the ride" from sixteenth to triplet-eighth to straight-ish eighths in fast tempos.  
In my travels in classical land, I found that there is a lot of conscious attention paid to which side of the beat that the grace notes would appear.  Particularly so with piano. I noticed that you tended to play your flams on top of the beat, so the the first snare note was on the beat and I noticed this with Alan as well, but usually at medium up and faster. At the beginning of the slow fast slows, most of his rudiments (grace notes - flams, drags and roughs) started before the beat and as the tempo increased they often changed to being after the beat. 
If you voice these on the set, especially so when the rudies are in your feet (thx Michael Barsimento!), it starts to approach a quote I remember Jack DeJohnette saying about "clothes-dryer time" - the sound of a tennis shoe, a belt and some change along with shirt or two in the spinning dryer: its periodic as opposed to being in time (truly a cool-ass approach to rhythm!).
All this along with the implied metric modulations in the ritual (where he ups the tempo of the rudiments from quarter notes to dotted eighth-notes or quarter-note triplets and then to eighth, eighth triplets, sixteenths etc) and then drop the tempo - has given me a lifetime of gristle to chew on,

[Mo_Ketchups]

“Play along ta Sly & The Family Stone” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[joshhuders]

One thing I practice is drumming to the imperial march. That's kind of a rudimental exercise isn't it? And I found that it does help!

[VaruniaKhan]

Thanks for this video man!! You're not wrong about the vegetable analogy ahaha, I'm not able to have lessons at the moment because my city is locked down and I've found myself not doing stuff like rudiments away from the studio.. 😬

[bowmoneydrums]

the single double lick works great in 7 with a middle eastern Laz rhythm

[ethanmoore]

Love your content man, very insightful everything 👌

[jimmackraz]

Never put your phone on a drum... it's only a matter of time before you cut loose and regret it.. :-) Nice lesson.

[derek]

When i was 19 and 20 years of age i used to practice rudiments religiously now in my fifties i hardly practice them but still asking myself what's the right balance groove or rudiments or an equal balance of both

[jerryholden]

Now I want to watch that Annika Nilles video. Anyone got a link?

[hubrisguy]

Mr. Bean, I didn't find this as funny as your other work. Loved the puke on the airplane bit. The show version was better than the movie

[nnathangrahamm]

Hey man! What's that EFX Combo you have there?