How to drum Your Fingers
Finger Technique Drumming Exercises (Drum Practice Pad Solo Included)
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everyone and welcome to my railroad
media office today I want to teach you a
little bit about finger technique and a
couple exercises that I do to develop
this technique now I'm still working on
it to this day in my opinion I'll never
ever stop practicing finger technique
it's just one of those things it took me
years to even get it to where it is now
and I'm still not happy with it not even
close so just keep that in mind I don't
expect it to happen overnight don't you
know but it's really important that you
are practicing it correctly so that when
you do start progressing you start
progress you start to progress properly
rather than to go backwards so first of
all I just want to usually I just want
to tell you finger technique is usually
used in conjunction with your wrist or
anything it's really just used you know
like this although that's the way we're
going to be practicing it to just get
these fingers developed and then
eventually you'll find as you become
more and more comfortable this it starts
automatically getting thrown in to your
when you're playing at the kit and stuff
if you're doing a little ghost notes and
you're doing pull-ups with your fingers
and stuff like that
but at first it's just important to get
your fingers comfortable following the
stick and pulling it back up so what I
did to get that is I basically just with
my right hand I just bounced the stick
like you'd bounce a basketball here I
think if you bounce a basketball you
don't like grab ball put it on the
ground and then pull back up so you
throw the basketball down and it comes
back up and then you receive it so in
the same way with finger technique I'll
throw the stick down and then I receive
it and my fingers they don't they don't
I don't you don't turn the stick back up
but my fingers rather just follow the
stick back up
and then if I want more power I can get
it harder just using my fingers and
you'll find the stick is going to slide
a lot in the stuff at first but you know
don't worry about that just stick it out
because it is worth it once you get it
this is something that you could develop
a lot of speed with and this is kind of
one of those secrets that a lot of
drummers don't know because they don't
really have the patience to sit down and
practice it because it can take a while
so again let's just do this to start you
might be doing this for weeks until you
get it left hand as well okay so once
you have that and you can do it a little
faster then we can move on to the next
exercise the next exercise I want to do
is this just basically with your right
and left hand not only is in fingers but
my elbow is actually sitting on the
armrest of my charity
okay so that's pretty cool okay now the
next thing we're going to be doing is
basically just playing groups of four
between each hand so one two three four
one two three four one two three four
one that simple as that that's the next
exercise and the beauty of these things
is you can do them anywhere you know you
can you're watching TV one night and the
commercials come on you just do it for
you know 20 minutes sometimes the
commercials go on for but you can do it
as long as you as long as you want and
you don't even really need a drum set
you don't even really need a practice
pad you can do it like you can do it on
your shoe you know if you're if your
soul is big enough so the next exercise
is basically just going up starting from
three going up to groups of eight nine
or ten whatever you want for this
application I'm just going to be showing
you from 3 till 8
so I'll go 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
if you can actually go down as well so
go from aid was that okay and then the
final exercise of me giving you is
basically just going from a group of
four to alternating singles so let
something like this
here little things in there like I'm
still practicing it to this day I don't
claim to be I don't think for it to be
perfect or anything but anything like
that you know we all need to continue
practice we all are continually learning
you could ask you know the best tourism
world Thomas Lange George Romero and all
those guys you know do still practice or
are you finished
do you know everything and they'll
always say no I'm still passing course
lots more to learn so always keep that
in mind and just be patient start slowly
don't expect to get it overnight and you
know don't be afraid to do it in front
of TV and stuff like that because you
know sitting in a room by yourself it
can get quite boring so it's nice to do
it in front of TV or do it along to
music or something like that so yeah I
hope you enjoyed this lesson have some
fun with it make sure you leave your
comments below email me if you have any
questions it's Jared at railroad
Mediacom I'd be more than happy to
answer any questions you have regarding
this technique or any of my other videos
out there thanks for stopping by have a
great day
