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Practice Techniques and Strategies

By Jason Tiemann 1. Why Practice?

•No such thing as natural talent

•Musical Nirvana

•Athletes of the small muscle groups

•Practice so that it is impossible NOT to do something

•The 10,000 hour rule (Malcom Gladwell)

2. Get Organized (part 1)

•Find a good teacher/mentor

•Keep a journal

•Use a metronome

•Review your goals

•Pursue your goal with passion

3. Warmup is not practice

•Improvised warmup (singles, doubles, Triples, Moeller stroke, Flam

paradiddles)

•Transition to warmup on drumset

4. Get organized (part 2)

•Determine your path

•Learn to speak like the masters (just as we learn to speak english)

Tony Williams

Groove

Technique

Creativity

•Budget your time

•Create your own syllabus and start a library

Example goals:

Afro-Cuban rhythms

Brazilian Rhythms

Jazz coordination

Soloing over tunes

Soloing over ostinatos

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up tempo jazz time

Linear funk

African Rhythms for Drumset

The Real Book

5. Practice!!!!

•Groove studies

Play with records and listen to recordings that knock you out

Creative metronome practice

•Technique

Triplet grid/quarter note system

Paradiddles ala Max Roach

Ted Reed

•Creativity studies

Tunes

Happy B-day

Flintstones

Mary Had a Little Lamb

More tunes from Real Book(All The Things You Are,

Autumn Leaves, Blue Bossa, Doxy, On Green Dolphin

Street, Song for my Father, Take the A train, I Got

Rhythm)

Philly Joe Jones solo vocabulary

Suggested Text (By no means a comprehensive list)

Afro-Cuban Rhythms For Drumset - Frank Malabe/ BobWeiner

Brazilian Rhythms for Drumset - Duduka De Fonseca

The New Breed - Gary Chester

Future Sounds - David Garibaldi

Progressive Steps to Syncopation - Ted Reed

The Jazz Drummer's Reading Workbook - Tom Morgan

West African Rhythms for Drumset - Royal Hartigan (very difficult)

Drumset Control - Marvin Dahlgren

Hi Hat Integration - Jan Prins

The Art of Bop Drumming - John Riley

Beyond Bop Drumming - John Riley

Essential Techniques for Drumset - Ed Soph

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