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Introduction    The first part of this method for drums and percussion instruments deals with the right posture, which is the basic condition to develop speed, endurance and precision with your playing. The style and the role of drumming have evolved with time, but the basic drums and percussion instruments technique hasn't changed much, and all the great drummers still build their own style from the same basis of musical theory.

Method    It's very important, in all the exercises, to keep a relaxed approach with the drum set and the sticks, to control the breathing and to avoid muscles' tension. You should approach every exercise by playing it slowly at first, then gradually speed up mantaining a relaxed posture, without changing your breathing or stiffening your body. You don't have to hurry, the study of musical instruments demands a lot of practice, and also the study of drums, as any other discipline, demands a long and constant exercise.
Improvisational skills are essential to any drummer to improve his expressive possibilities; that's why it's so important to experiment personal variations playing the exercises, following his own style and natural inclination.

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Drums basic exercises with triplets

In the natural binary subdivision of time the triplet is the first exception, three is the smallest odd number by whom we can divide a fraction of time. It's very important, for every musician, to know how to insert triplets -and other odd time divisions- in a binary rhythmic context, and it's also an essential step to understand the odd time signatures that we'll see in the advanced part of this method. Triplets are the first application of the concept of "polyrhythmics".
The exercises alternate eighths and sixteenths to triplets of eighths and sixteenths, to be played as single strokes. For a better understanding, you should play the groups of two, three and four strokes with a single hand, alternating the left and the right hand, and play the patterns only with bass drum and hi-hat.


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