To improve your playing, or anything else you do, its required that you practice or rehearse.

So when your sitting in front of the TV or waiting for something to finish, the time that passes could be spent practicing. Last night I spent I think half an hour (I didn’t notice the time because I was watching a movie - The Break up- and I stared to play doubles, then inverted para-diddles, para-diddles. The main objective is to play doubles for an extended period, focusing on consistency and stamina.

Another place your arms in front of you, make your elbows and wrists’ touch and open and close yours hands together making the fingers clap. You should do this for one hundred bars of quavers (800). The exercise is designed to build up stamina in the forearms, you should remain relaxed throughout the whole time, I cant over emphasize this point enough, if it starts to hurt - slow down, you start to grit your teeth - relax!

When your at that point where 100 bars is getting easy, get a metronome out and increase the BMP. This great tip is in full on the JoJo Mayer DVD :Secret weapons for the modern drummer.

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