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I have been considering buying a stand alone metronome for quite a long time but could never actually bring myself to shell out the dough. I could have bought a cheap one, but really wanted something good. A while back I bought a ITouch and have been using it to play my music while I play. Well one think lead to another and I found myself searching the App store for metronome app's. I tried a couple but have fallen in love with Tempo by Frozen Ape. Not only can you play your MP3 with the App running, you can tap the screen to the beat and it will read the BPM's. It also stores them for later callup. Not to mention it is very accurate. In fact it is much more accurate than the built in metronome on my DTX Express III. The best part, it was only $1. Check it out
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Single Stroke Roll Exercise Part 2 |
The Ninja Drummist has published a sequel to the Single Stroke Roll Excersise video and even sent me an email to let me know! If you have already seen the first one, below is the second. If you have not yet seen the first; scroll down and watch it in my last post;
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Single Stroke Roll Exercise |
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I have to admit that I have a pretty slow single stroke roll. I didn’t really realize this until I started playing certain songs with a fairly fast tempo (for me) with full measures of 16th note rolls over multiple surfaces. I don’t do too bad with a single surface, but even that could use some improvement. I ran across this guys on youtube.com who calls himself the Ninja Drummist. Check out this video Man that seemed petty fast to me. I noticed that he seems to have been able to isolate the backfingers and relies on the rebound stoke to complete the motion. This seems to be exactly my problem. I am using too much wrist. Here is a follow up video with a better explanation of the motion;
I have added this exercise to my daily routine. I am starting very slowly at 50 bpm for 10 min using the pattern he wrote out. Hopefully I can get much better speeds with my single stroke rolls with time. Thanks to the ninja drummist http://www.ninjadrummist.com/
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