Drumming Exercises To Help Improve Your Drumming

Drumming exercises are important to do if you want your drumming talent to increase. We just had the South African World Cup 2010 and we all know that those athletes do some serious training like practice runs, kicks, stretches, muscle memory activities and more. All of that to get better at their sport.

And that is a very true statement.

If you know of a good drumming exercise,please post it below!

So since I have been drumming for 10 years now I will you show some exercises that I have done that helped me and my drumming get better. I peppered some tips through out as well.

Free Exercises

Increasing Your Hand Speed Through Gained Control

Exercise #1

Practice controlling your bounce. Bounce your stick off the center of your snare drum as follows:

Keep doing this slowly until your feel and are SURE that your bounce is a "controlled" bounce. Try out different patterns such as RRR LLL RRR LLL or RR LLL RRR LL R L R LLL RRR LL RR and so on.

TIP#1- Don't speed up without gaining control because your drumming will just end up sounding messy.

Have your less dominant hand play the hi-hat. Meaning, when you play your basic drum beat let your less dominant hand play the hi-hat. If your a "righty" let your left hand do it, if your a "lefty" let your left hand do it. Learn how to play the basic beat.

Increasing your foot pedal speed

Exercise #3

If you are a "righty" play the drums with your left foot. Meaning, let your left foot or less dominant foot play the bass drum and play a basic beat over and over again until you gain more control.

Tip#2- After about 15 minutes of playing, take a short break for about 5 minutes, come back and continue playing. This should help you.