yeah, How do you do that?

OK, well if you`re serious about, you`ll need to locate either a drum instructor that also teaches Indian percussion or a teacher that has background in Indian music. You should look primarily for a drum teacher for the sake of getting the best of both worlds: developing fluid technique as well as counting.

There is a well known drummer who uses this method: Steve Smith. If you get to Central New York (Syracuse, Rochester) I can direct you to a teacher who teaches drumset and other percussion and specifically teaches Jati.

The phrases are known as Jati (e.g. ta, ta-ka, ta-ki-ta, ta-ka-di-mi, etc.)

Good Luck and keep drumming!
Tom

what yall, this ya boy isaiah and i know how to do everything in drumline except the solo. got any tips? do u think i can star in drumline 2!

dat drumline movie was off da hook. the part when sean and devon were battling eachother in the music room .the way he put the beats together must have took him months to practice. speed isn`t my problem i got that down packed but my problem is put my beats in to one organized sound . i can read sheet music very well but making my own beats sound good is the problem.what should i do to improve that?

As far as what you hear, notice that you`ll never see "Sean" & "Devon`s" hands at the same time as their faces (it`s Hollywood) If you`ve worked exercise up to those kinds of tempos, putting them together should not be a problem. If they are, play back that face-off at slow motion: You`ll find the following rudiments: Flams, flam taps (lots of those) and shifting accents - that`s where the key is.

My advice: listen to some old school funk (Tower of Power, EWF, Meters, etc.) Take those accent patterns and work out a way to stick them (RRLf) - See George Stone`s Stick Control for what the small "f" stands for as opposed to RRLF.

TJ

hey im 13 years old im drum captain for my school and i play snare quads and im in a band and play drumset i bet i could slature anyone in drums just gimmy a call and ill be happy to teach you my number is 447-3643 call me peace out

Don`t try to copy off of Drumline. You can do better than that. Just keep it simple at first and then build from that. You say this is your first year and hopefully you have more than one year on the drumline, so you can have time to experience different beats. Sixteenth notes with accents work nicely as do double bounces. Don`t worry yourself over looking overly cool because if you still sound like crap, no one will think anything of you even if you have really cool stick twirls.

i`ve been playin drums for a while now, and i`ve always played match grip...recently my band instructor gave me this solo for next year and it requires playin traditional style, ive never played like that actually...does anybody have any tips on playing like that.

The main focus of your practice should be for fluid motion and control. Take the exercises you do with matched grip and play them slowly, overemphasizing the left hand to build control, and, to quote my favorite instructor, Joe Wormworth: "Always remember to point the beads of the sticks down towards the drum"

(BTW do a Google search on Joe Wormworth - his nephew Jim fills in on Conan O`Brien, and his neice Tracy has toured on bass with Sting, amongst others)

The movie was fun to watch as a movie, but to example after? NO! Most of the kids I know that watched the movie thought that the songs they played was as hard as it can get! Hello? How can you think thats hard? Devon couldn`t even march and drum at the same time!
The movie even dissed Corps-style drumming! I think anybody that hears the DCI will know that DCI is better than HBOTB, WAY better.

Hey, Isaiah (I think thats how you spell it), when Devon played the solo during the half time, right after the duet with sean, all he did was some rolls with backsticking in it. I hope this helps.

Oh yeah, another thing that I hate about the movie is that it encouraged kids in the line to be hotheads.


Drumline2?

just sit down with a pad with good recoil and make stuff up put it together and eventually it sounds right

Before you start doing stick tricks and practicing to be the next Jeff Queen, learn all of your 40 rudiments, practice your rolls until they sound nice, and last, but not least, never think the people in "Drumline" are the best of the best. Watch some WGI or DCI, and you will be quite amazed. I`m 15 and have played religiously for the last 4 years on my favorite instrument...Snare. Yay. lol. If you want to learn some beginner stick tricks, AFTER you know your rudiments and such, email me at my address of AIM me at cloudsephiroth13.

Drumline is a sucky movie... those guys dont play sh-- anything. it is all visual and not practical for most lines that ram out alot of notes.
Jake 16 snare in high school

first things first, drumline is just a movie, the actors really arent playing all that much and even when they do its simple and they were taught by professionals. second, if you people really are 14 and 15 and have been playing for 4-6 years, you should actually know all of the rudiments or should have beenn taught them. i am 16 and have been playing PERCUSSION for about 7 years now. i am not lying about my age at all. when i say percussion i mean anything that can be considered that type of instrument. i started out on piano, which got me started rhythmically. im going to be a snare in the Columbus High Marching Band, and our drumline can most likely waste the thrown together group on Drumline. like scv snare has said, learn the rudiments, then the hybrid rudiments. after you have those MEMORIZED, then do variations with stick tricks. think about stick tricks like this, if a blind man was hearing you play one rhythm clean, then with stick tricks, he would ask you why they were different if you hesitated doing the tricks. but if you have your speed and stick control down good enough, he would say they sounded the same. now, i know that some of you kids are asking, who does this guy think he is being 16 and telling me off. well, i know i am the kind of person who doesnt like seeing stick tricks when something sounds like crap. if you really want to be on a drumline that badly, you will learn how to play the rudiments and everything else, drumline was just a thrown together group that were taught what to do, and i bet they know a few of the rudiments. the fact that i guess i am stressing a lot is either you learn the rudiments or you just go without being great at playing snare. just because you dont know stick tricks doesnt mean you cant be a great player. and for those of you who think the movie drumline is the bible for drumlines everywhere, go watch a dci competition. the warmup areas are great to go and watch corps do their thing. the Blue Devils did single handed rolls and they ran across the field doing it. and if that isnt any indication on how hard they work, then you are so stupid. email me if youre maddened by what i say, or email me if you agree with me. kgb_op_no07@hotmail.com and one more thing, Drumline the movie is not the BIBLE