Learn Bucket Drumming

You're ready for the first street beat! Sticking is important so follow the music carefully. 

For practice outside of the lesson video you could use a metronome and
try this street beat at faster tempos. Like I said in previous videos, playing this everyday will be the fastest way to improve. The goal is to be consistent. No speeding up or slowing down. Play this drum beat until you don't have to think about it anymore.

Now that you have the first street beat down I want to introduce you to a couple musical terms. Accents and Dynamics. In drumming your stick height will determine how loud you are playing. If you want to make an accent sometimes the best way to do that is make the non-accent notes even softer. If you've never heard of this stuff before I would recommend pausing the video frequently to give your hands a chance to adjust. 

Think back to our 8's warm up. Remember when we did that silly wrist exercise? These accents are why we work on using our wrist. Our wrist is controlling the stick heights and our stick heights are the dynamic volume at which we are playing at. 

This is a tough one if you've never tried it before. Give it some time and practice everyday!

Note: Non-accents at 2"-3" and accents at 6"-8" would be a good height for this drum beat.

Before doing this lesson you must have the first two street beats memorized. If you need more time to practice them that's fine. Keep practicing until you can play both beats without thinking about them.

Your goal in this video is to connect the two street beats together without stopping. Once you have mastered that, move onto the next video.

Note: Don't forget about stick heights! Most of the time playing softer will fix the problem.

The sticking for this syncopated beat are single strokes (R L). If you're playing with a group everyone should start on the right hand.

For practice outside of the lesson video you could use a metronome and try this street beat at faster tempos. Like I said in previous videos, playing this everyday will be the fastest way to improve. The goal is to be consistent. No speeding up or slowing down. Play this drum beat until you don't have to think about it anymore.

Note: Since there are no accents, the stick height should be the same. 6"-8" would be a good height for this one.

The sticking for this syncopated beat are single strokes (R L). If you're playing with a group everyone should start on the right hand.

For practice outside of the lesson video you could use a metronome and try this street beat at faster tempos. Like I said in previous videos, playing this everyday will be the fastest way to improve. The goal is to be consistent. No speeding up or slowing down. Play this drum beat until you don't have to think about it anymore.

Note: Since there are no accents, the stick height should be the same. 6"-8" would be a good height for this one.

Before doing this lesson you must have all 5 beats memorized. If you need more time to practice them that's fine. Keep practicing until you can play them all without thinking about them.

Your goal in this video is to connect all five beats together without stopping. Once you have mastered that you can try making up your own routine. Using a whistle to call out the next beat is a great way to keep everyone transitioning together.

Note: Don't forget about stick heights! Most of the time playing softer will fix the problem.

This video is just to give you some idea of the stick tricks you can work on. It's fun to be a drummer but even more fun to be an all around entertainer! 

Note: You don't have to learn stick tricks to be a great drummer. It's just for fun.

Thanks for taking this course. If you used this for a group class I would love to hear how it went. Please email me some stories/pictures/videos! contact@soundisred.com