Take your double bass drum technique to the next level
What you'll learn
- Learn the heel toe technique with both feet
- Learn how to do double stroke roll with the feet
- Learn how to do drum rudiments with the feet
- Learn how to do double pedal/bass drum solos
- Learn hundreds of double pedal/bass rhythms
- Learn warm up exercises for double pedal/bass
- You will get all the sheet music in pdf for download
- You will get hundreds of guitar riffs to play along and make your study more fun. All available for download (mp3)
Requirements
- A solid foundation on drum set
- The basics of double bass drum (at least)
- It might help if you can read sheet music (not mandatory, if you are good at playing by ear)
- Drum set
- Double pedal or two bass drums
- Drumsticks
- Drum stool
- Sheet stand (not mandatory)
- Metronome (indispensable)
- Mp3 player (Optional)
Description
- Do you want to improve your double bass drum technique to reach a new level?
- Do you want to be able to perform feet techniques that many thought would only be possible to achieve with hands?
- Do you want to learn hundreds of double bass drum rhythms and magnify your drumming glossary?
- Do you want to learn with a smart sheet system which is going to help you reading them?
- Do you want to practice exercises in a fun way with hundreds of guitar riffs to go along with your training?
Then this course is for you!
In this course we will start by approaching the heel toe technique. A technique that has been, in my opinion, underappreciated and underused in the drumming world. First, let’s shed some light on several misconceptions that surround this technique, the ones contributing to having it misinterpreted and, consequently, underused and even ignored. Then, we will learn the technique step by step, details after details and I will present solutions to potential problems.
After that, we are going to step into the preliminary exercises section, which will allow you to give the first steps with the above-mentioned technique, whilst learning how to assimilate that in a rhythmic-musical context. In the following section, you will learn how to blend that technique within a string of exercises based on sixteenth notes. For each exercise we will learn 4 different rhythms/grooves. Then, we will move on to a section that includes a very similar group of exercises, but whose foundation consists of eighth note triplets. Last but not least, we will have the section which I believe is the favorite of many of you… the rudiments section! In it you will learn to do those with double bass drum and you will assimilate them in 4 rhythms/grooves, like in the previous sections. After all this you will be able to create your own rhythms and even perform a double bass drum solo! You just need to let your imagination and creativity flow!
These are the materials which are included in this course:
- All the sheets of all the exercises presented in the course will be available to download;
- All the guitar riffs presented in this course will be available to download.
Extra note:
In some of the course’s sections, certain videos will be played in slow motion, so that you can see everything with the maximum detail. All the videos were recorded at 120 frames per second, to assure you have a watching experience of the highest degree.
Who this course is for:
- Drummers who like to play with double pedal/bass
- Solo drummers
- Session drummers
- Metal drummers
Instructor
[English]
I started to study drums in 1997. Two years later I was already playing live as a professional.
In 2003, I started to study orchestral percussion at the Musical Academy of Viana do Castelo, where I finished my complementary music course in percussion and musical training.
Since 2008 to the present day, I have been teaching drums and musical education in schools in the north of Portugal.
Besides the musical area, I always had a huge interest in IT, more specifically programming and game development. Currently I'm an indie game developer with some titles published on Google Play.
[Português]
Comecei a estudar bateria em 1997. Dois anos depois já tocava ao vivo como profissional.
Em 2003 comecei a estudar percussão de orquestra na Academia de Música de Viana do Castelo, onde completei o curso complementar de música em percussão e formação musical.
Desde 2008 até ao presente dia, tenho lecionado bateria e educação musical em escolas no norte de Portugal.
Além da área musical, sempre tive um grande interesse por tecnologia da informação, mais concretamente a programação e o desenvolvimento de jogos. Atualmente sou desenvolvedor de jogos indie, e conto já com alguns títulos publicados na plataforma Google Play.