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How to be able to practice 8-9 hours a day

1) Warm up and general practice on the practice pad:

•  -  45 minutes with Stone Killer by Joe Morello
•  -  30 minutes with Single Strokes, put into a Rhythmic Scale.
•  -  30 minutes with Double Strokes, put into a Rhythmic Scale
•  -  30 minutes with Different Rudiments:
          Standard/Swiss/Inversions/Chop Builders.
•  -  30 minutes with different rudimentary etudes.
•  -  30 minutes with Organic practice on the practice pad.

Total amount of time on the practice pad: 3 hours and 15 min.



2) Co-ordination for drumset:

•  -  1 hour and 30 minutes of Jazz co-ordination taken from Alan Dawson's method. (Using Ted Reed: Syncopation or Louis Bellson Reading Text in 4/4)

3) Sight Reading:

•  -  1 hour: Practice different kinds of sight reading: Big Band charts, classical etudes and thru composed drum-charts.

4) Different Brazilian grooves:

•  -  1 hour: Samba, Bossa Nova, Bahia, Batucada, Baiao.

5) Different Afro-Cuban grooves:

•  -  1 hour: Mambo, Guaguancho, Mozambique, Songo, Bata, Abacua, Nongo.

6) Musical Textures/Practicing related form exercices

•  -  45 minutes

7) Resolution points/Practicing related form exercices

•  -  45 minutes

Practice everything above with your metronome or sequencer. Use it varied. For example using different sounds, different rhythmic layers or adding percussion tracks.



6) and 7) are more creative related exercises. That is why I have put them pretty late in the practice schedule.

- Not that you do not need to concentrate while practice them, but you will get to use a lot of the information that you have practiced earlier in the day.

While you are having such an intense practice schedule. I will highly recommend you to play several jam-sessions, in various types of music, so you will get to develop your practiced stuff in a musical setting.


This practice schedule is only a suggestion for you to get started. Concerning 4) and 5) you can easily change those topics with other rhythms that you have to explore, for example: Second Line, Balkan-rhythms, various-books that you want to check out or development of playing odd meters.

Metronome/Sequencer:

For me it is very simpel: You always have to practice with your metronome. There is several reasons for doing that:

• 1) It develops your Time, meaning tempo, phrasing and technique
• 2) You will always be in a positive progress, in your own development as a player.
• 3) You will continously work on your Egality/accuracy in your technique.
• 4) Develop independence in your ability to play different tempos. That means practice   tempos close to each other.
• 5) Keep track on your own development.

Reference list of literature used/Bibliography:

Stick Control for the Snare Drummer, by George Lawrence Stone
Accents and Rebounds for the Snare Drummer, by George Lawrence Stone
Master Studies, by Joe Morello
N.A.R.D.(National Association of Rudimental Drummers)
Charley Wilcoxon: The All-American Drummer, 150 Rudimental Solos.
Ted Reed: Syncopation


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