The REAL Reason You Should Practice Your Rudiments!! 🧐 (That You Haven't Been Told Yet)
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Listen to this man and learn, folks. Beatdown Brown isn't messing around, he's genuinely trying to help us. Much love to you and yours Rob
Absolutely! His videos have helped me tremendously practice and prepare for live gigs!
“I’m not afraid of a person who knows 10,000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10,000 times” Bruce Lee
You taught us ‘why’ we should practice rudiments- this is key to effective teaching.
Your humour in delivery is BOSS. Thanks, keep ‘em comin’ 🤟🏾🤟🏾
I started playing drums at 10 and learned basic rudiments at that time. Sadly I was not taught how rudiments are applied and so I did little with them for years. Then, a few years ago I decided to revisit rudiments and began working with the paradiddle. I learned and practiced every permutation of the paradiddle and spent hours just playing paradiddles on practice pads, on my snare, on my kit, on my lap, on my dashboard in the car, on my bed while watching tv for months. In doing so I improved so many of my general drumming skills including my doubles, my timing, my subdivisions of beats, my fluidity, and general drum speed. In addition, it opened the door to many other avenues so I started to work on the 6-stroke roll next and began to practice it as I had the paradiddles. This process became like walking into an auditorium with many different doors to choose from all of which lead to more auditoriums filled with more doors to explore. More importantly, it has led me to a process of exploring and refining dum skills that have improved my drumming more in a few years than I had in the preceding decades.
Now, rudiment practice is a regular part of my drum practice and I never fail to see improvements in my drumming as a result. This old dog not only learned this new thing but it has made me a new drummer as a result and has greatly increased my enjoyment of drumming which is icing on the cake! :-)
Once again thank you Rob for another great lesson! ps. Flamuel L Jackson
Totally agree. I remember when i was young, first learning a simple paradiddle around the drumkit and realising how one simple rudiment can give you so many different sounds, fills, and chops. I love learning new rudiments to what different grooves and mechanics i can use around the kit
The pacing of your teaching would normally be enough for someone like me to be easily distracted, but you have a way of keeping your audience engaged in your pace. Appreciate the help!
OMG, you're cracking me up...
So many jokes..flamadoodle, Ramen noodle. Flamuel IIL Jackson. As always an inspiration.
Thanks Rob, you literally just made my whole day?
Mr. Brown is my teacher. Just just started looking into drums. Shoot I bought sticks and I'm on a bucket and a computer mouse pad. Soon I will get an affordable kit. Thank you sir.
Gotta start somewhere, man👌🏽
Don't quit, brother.. keep that same energy!
Humble beginnings can go a long way
No joke, I started 40+ years ago with a pair of sticks and a bunch of hardback books arranged on the top of my dresser. Follow your passion and do what you can with what you've got!
Mouse mat, now that is a great idea.
cool stuff like paradiddles can be good for fills too (do a paradiddle with right hand on floor tom and left hand on snare)
Shared your RUclips with my 17 yr old son…I said “I like this guy!’ He texted back…"Yeah I like him too!” He'd already found ya!
Hahaha. Thas awesome 👊🏽
I’ve been drumming at my church for a few years and just listening to a few of your videos. I know I’m gonna make that breakthrough to the next level that has been very difficult. Thank you, brother.
Same and same
I practice them everyday 👊👊
Just recently got myself a 12" pad and returning to the rudiments. The need for building mechanics is evident to me as I play and find my mind is clear with what I want to do, but the body doesn't always cooperate...this is what I intend to change. Thanks Rob! Always great stuff here!!
I am literally binge watching so many of your beginner and basics videos right now as I’m only two weeks into teaching myself drums and I want to squash any bad habits before they start. I had not even considered rudiments but the next thing I buy is a practice pad. Your lessons and the way you deliver them are 100% engaging.
Once again Rob, you are right on the money with this lesson. I, too, have found how useful various rudiments and other sticking patterns can help you fly around the drums without thinking about it. And I love your new moniker: "Flamuel L. Jackson". Keep up the great work!
Your comments were on fire in this video! You're absolutely right as well. WORK THOSE HANDS!
Triple drag flap jack changed my life tho bro , no cap fr fr
If you really want to get not just a mechanical workout but also a mental workout might I suggest Jim Chapin's idea of expanding & collapsing rudiments or my favorite thing to do which is inverting, rearranging & moving the accent around.
For example, try accenting the first diddle in a paradiddle. Warning, it's gonna twist your mind a bit and make you feel like you never played a paradiddle before.
I also like playing them on the kit between hands & feet. Then combine rudiments to make interesting fills. Prolly the quickest & easiest way to come up w. new & fun fills to play and amaze your bandmates with! You can ever make up your own rudiments like the Flam-tap-a-diddle and struggle to gain control of your hands as the flail around like they're not attached to the rest of your body.
This all good stuff because you're learning new patterns and new complex mechanical movements that require focus unlike practicing all the other rudiments you maybe have practiced for years.
Yes, it’s not really about the pattern itself. It’s about the technique and the mechanics required to play it. Rudiments are basically all the possible techniques available to the drummer. And it’s it’s also the drummers vocabulary, the more words you know, the more you can say. But, before all that, it’s important to start with what many consider the “Real Rudiments” and the most important: the 4 main strokes. Which is the Full Stroke, Down Stroke, Up Stoke, Tap Stroke. One good routine would be to focus on 4 or 5 rudiments instead of 26, and just work with one rudiment from each of the rudiment families. Practice just one from the Single stroke family then one from the double strokes family, one from the paradiddle family, one from the flam family and then maybe work on your buzz roll. You don’t have to practice ever rudiment under the sun. Just practice the ones you think you might need. A mechanic or construction worker don’t have ever tool. They just have what they need to do the job. Dug the video, Rob👍
Rob this is spot on.. Jr. High instructor broke it down with a similar rational, Building the hand Mechanics and muscle memory means so much. One thing I didn't realize it really helped, writing and transcribing. Your percussive vocab is like any language, the more words and phrase you know the better you can express what you're trying to say or figure out what's being said.
You have opened my eyes thank you
Nice to see you again..!
I started playing drums when i was 11, stopped when i was 18 and started again at 28. I realised that rudiments are the building blocks of achieving good techniques and creativity. I have lots of ideas but i cannot execute them because my hands and brain don't let me. I wish i realised that a lot sooner lol
Excellent, excellent advice!
Thank you for the great tips, youre talented!
Just came from ur absolute beginners 10 beats.... faaaaaaaark.... ill go back to the beginners. Thanks, bra. Massive love!
Wise words. It took me a while to realise how your facilities improve subconsciously through understanding rudiments. There is a tendency at times by instructors to make rudiments intimidating. The key is to respect them, without fearing them.
Yo, this guy is rad. Practice till you get it right. Once you get it right, practice until you get it wrong.
What a cool exercise! ❤️🙏
The development of mechanics is THE EXPLANATION for the exercises. As Prof Brown just said.. u do this and suddenly something else u were struggling on... just becomes easy and sensibly simple (if there is such a usage). So Amen to Prof Rob Brown again
Hey, Flamuel. Thanks for the videos. My family got me a practice pad for Christmas, but I think they’re kinda regretting it. I’ve been on it like crazy. Thanks again, Rob.
Ha. That means you’re doin it right 👌🏽
@@RobBeatdownBrown I’ve been a full-on single stroke drummer for decades. I’m digging the 6 stroke roll. Just gotta get the grace doubles down. Too full-on with all strokes at this point. I’ll get there… with your help/videos. All the best for 2023, Rob.
Just brilliant brother...
Nice respectable "thank you." Nailed!
Okay', nice and respectable. This guy's all that. Great stuff to get going in the right direction.
You are the MAN!
Thanks "Flamuel Jackson" 🤣🤣
I was one of those drummers that didn't know about rudiments until a later stage in life (i was a just play the groove guy)... and didn't take them seriously... but now I'm head over hills in wanting to get my hands in a better posture for playing better.... basically there are things i want to do on the kit and my hands are at a deficit... so rudiments here I come
Nice flam combination! I love practicing flam rudiments, because the flam is a ghost note and an accent hitting at (approximately) the same time. That's a skill that totally translates to the kit. It helps with controlling internal dynamics, and is essential for funk drumming (as well as many other genres).
Thanks for the 411 on every video. I'm 54yrs old. Only been at this 3yrs and I love the drums. The Gaddiments book by Steve Gadd you recommended. Awesome 👍
Steve Gadd book is awesome for this.
Not practicing rudiments is like being a smoker and playing saxophone.
Fantastic, diamond crusted lesson right here in the first 2:00 of the video. It’s absolutely everything, and missing from 99% of “Rudimental Lessons” online right now. Great job, Rob.
Fair enough, guess im practicing rudiments then. Its honestly the thing holding me back
Hey Rob, love your channel, can you do a video on your snare drum sometime, sounds amazing!!
The start of this vid successfully got my attention.🥁🎶💯✅️🤘
Rob - Great point. I gotta break that drum groove down - that was pretty cool.
I’ll take it Mr. Brown. Peace out my man.
Love you Rob!
Thank you so much Sir
Man, that helps! It’s not about the rudiment!! How many times I thought: ah forget it, I will never get this rudiment down. Turns out I don’t have to 😎
But seriously dude, playing rudiments hours for the TV? Do you live alone? My family will kick me out if I do that while they are watching TV 😂😂
A folded Yamaha hand towel on top of the pad and a killer soundbar on the TV 🤫👌🏽
Hello do you suddest to start practice the rudiments without flam. And then add flam? Or do it with the flam direct? Hope on respond. Kind regards from Sweden
Excellent advice! It's surprising that this needs to be said aloud.
Mr. Brown, I am a beginner of sorts. My left stick is weak. In fact, it's where my problem is. What is a good solo exercice for me on the pad? I fell that waiting for it to catch up to my right is going to be a long time. I falter, I could not keep up with your paradiddle tape, and it was the left that was slowing me down as usual. Thanks for any reply.
...Tripel Drag Flapjacks are delicious...!!!...
Do you mind calling you Rob ‘Yoda’ Brown? ….I mean in 50 years from now of course…
Thank you for the inspiration,Rob!
The ol' Triple Jack Flapjack 😭🤣😭🤣
Thanks Mr. Beatdown. You have taught me so much! Great drummer, but an even better man.
Rob Brown the goat
Great breakdown and insight into the usefulness of learning rudiments!
Okay, not only is he a great teacher He's funny as hell " flammadoodles and ramen noodles" lmao... I want to here are those rudiments! Rob, can you give us an example of those?
Great lesson Rob! Thanks! I believe that hand workout you demonstrated is also in the book “Gaddiments “ page 5 Flam Tap Variations. I practiced to your video last night and just happened to find it in my book this morning
Hello guys! Is it the rudiment:
lRR rLR rLL lRR rLL lRL lRR rLL?
The Sticking Pattern Starts @ 2:56
{R}R{L}R {L}L{R}R {L}L{R}L {R}R{L}L
{R} = Right-Hand Flam lR
{L} = Left-Hand Flam rL
||: Flam tap, Inverted flam tap, Flam tap, Flam tap :||
Or think of it as paradiddles where
R = Flam Tap
L = Inverted Flam Tap
Great video as usual. I guess I’m a drunk sumo wrestler! Is there a PDF of this sticking? Thanks again for another great video.
Always in point and useful! Thank you so much as always Rob!
It's ALL about control and flow, if it doesn't flow they won't want to dance, if they aren't dancing it's on you, and you probably won't be asked back as a drummer. Thnx! GREAT lesson 👍👍
Yes absolutely.
One single rudiment can be applied around the kit and sound like 20 different songs. The possibilities are endless.
I've been working on inversions to help the weak hand by playing 3 notes in a row with an accent on the last note. Helps a bunch.
Rlrr Lrll Lrll Rlrr Rlrr..
Sounds cool if u do one hand per tom & move it around the kit, like an audible waterfall.
I dropped my respect comment here "Thank you" Flamuel Jackson, peace out.
great lesson, thanks Rob..I enjoy your vid's and learn from them. Will practice this now and often
If you don't want to learn to play rudiments than you don't want to learn the vocabulary of drumming..great vid
Down tap up one of my favorites.
For me its kinda hard to practice rudiments cause all i wanna do is practice a song and cover it.. but hey no matter what my body wants to do my brain still says do rudiments.. so i ended up still doing a daily rudiments practice. 😁😁😁
Always good lessons Flamuel is a ledge
Rudiments are our scales. They train us to learn the way we use our instrument to make music. Once we've learned how to make music with our instrument, we can apply the scales creatively to make even more music
What book did you get that from lol
@@sneakapeak40 Hahaha
Fluid Fills Follow From Fundamental Fluency
Flamuel L Jackson 👏👏👏 bravo for that gem.
Great vid. Straight to the point and hit the nail squarely on the head, probably with a flamadoodleadiddlyflapadumdum lol
Actually, rudiments were developed to play that specific pattern, not as exercises. What you are demonstrating is an exercise to improve your technique. Of course rudiments can serve that purpose too. Many of them have a very practical application to the drum kit. The best example of this is Steve Gadd. Stanton Moore is another one. Applying a single paradiddle, for example, to a rock rhythm gives an amazingly creative sound to an otherwise simple beat.
I don't often do the exact 40 rudiments; but I work a lot out of the book Stick Control for the Snare Drummer by Stone; often doing the exercises around the kit. That being said, I plan to do the 40 rudiments for today's practice. Thank you for the inspiration.
Make sure you take it slow though, a mistake I make often is rushing things.
Flamuel L. Jackson... 😅🤩 awesome!! ...yeah, I definitely don't wanna be a "sucka". Love the videos you post!! I especially appreciate that I can get access to these vids without a subscription or payment. Thank you so much 🙌💯🎶
Can't get in it, would you mind including a small "chart" in the video to read , which should be easier for me to understand and then practice ...!
thank you Mr. Jackson. any particular drum rudiment book you can recommend?
Rudimental sense, always🤟
Flamuel L Jackson got me badly.. 🔥😆🔥
Could not agree more! Muscle memory is what it's all about.. When you reach level where you don't have to think about the execution, you're there..
..and i took that personally 😂😂
Nice discussion, important topic.
Here are a couple of very nice, very respectful , and more importantly… constructive criticism oriented comments.
2:55 RRLR LLRR LLRL RRLL (aka? Diddle-Par-a Double Double) ?
Do you have any way to add sticking to your videos (iMovie, Final Cut Pro) ? Or maybe just write them down there in the description section so that we can get it?
Just wondering…
Quick question to anybody reading this: am I wrong?
I mean, I might just be slow. We all process information at different speeds and I’m not saying that he did anything bad, I just literally thought that was rocket science for me personally to understand all those “rights and lefts” that quickly.
And what rudiment is that?
5:20 Question: Is that the rudiment you just showed us ? Sorry, I thought you just said you would probably never do it at the drum set. I only look totally confused, I’m actually not; it’s just that my face typically contorts like this and my head turns slightly to the side because, we’ll, because… OK fine I’m completely confused. 🤪
Am my final nice, respectful, and “positivity & hope toward the future”, would be:
I think saying that people feel like they’re wasting their time playing rudiments, and then confirming that by saying they will NEVER use any of these at the drums that would make most people agree with you (at the end 6:22 when you give your listeners the option to “take it or leave it“ I’d guess they would leave it. Salesmanship 101 “never give them the option to bow out“). 🥰
Yes you make a great point that neurologically as well as physiologically (muscle memory wise) we are directly, inadvertently, or supplementally helping our drumming…
But think about the average person who just worked for 8 hours, fought traffic, came home to his hungry wife and kids, then FINALLY wants to sit down and do something fun for 10 minutes…. That guy’s not gonna’ sit for an hour and a half doing things that he “will never use“.
A solution / anecdote:
I have an adult student who has been practicing rudiments his whole life and is pretty decent at them.
The other day as we sat at our side-by-side drum sets for his lesson, I asked him to play a ruff (llR rrL).
Then I said “OK play the first 2 lefts on your snare and then the right on the crash along with your bass drum, then reverse that as the rudiment alternates”.
Completely changed his life, mind blown, mouth agape, “thank you, thank you, thank you” as he practiced it over and over and was amazed how cool it sounded. A couple days later he texted me that he has incorporated that into a song that has band wrote !!
Then we went on to the single drag (llR L rrL R), Rattamaque (llR L R L), etc.
My point:
The practical application of ruiments on the drum set is the point !! It’s not useless or rote, and thus gives us the incentive to PRACTICE our rudiments. 🏋️♀️
I love your style man, and I love your drumming, totally dig your room-lighting-mics-vibe, I love your drum sound, I love your wisdom, and I LOVE the fact that you are inspiring people (me included) to get better at drumming !!!
Steve
✌️😊✌️
its simple it all boils down to stick control with this comes great powers
right on brother its about the mechanics and muscle memory. IF you practice your rudiments, you will have much greater flexibility AND creativity on your set as you will execute ideas from your head to your hands seamlessly.
Great advice brother.
Man I just never was good at rudiments properly because I never practice them. I think I’m a decent drummer and I know I really need to practice these rudiments. So I will start asap 👍
There are somewhere around 1000 named rudiments. If you don’t like one, there’s plenty of alternatives you could be practicing instead. The point is to go practice.
👽 Hey Rob, The Marcian from Puerto Rico here; just starting drummin''and just like you say maybe the rudiments won't be "actually played" but I noticed that when tackling new lessons the learning curve is flattening cause my hands are starting to glide with less effort; thanks bro...
Nice, man 👌🏽
“and Suckas” “Triple Drag Flapjack” Word Rob! You crack me up! 😂 I’m about your age - started playing in ‘72. He’s right you young drummers - Pay attention!
Fab 😎👍
Amen, BBQ Guru.
First thing after coffee...15 minutes...everyday. then over to the kit.
Thanks Rob!
No sweat 🙂
I’m a sucker for sure. 😂
Yessir!!
Great little video Rob. I enjoy your content, and they way you convey what you're explaining. I watch yourself, and one or two others. The main one being a guy who goes by, "That Swedish Drummer" he is also a very skilled and technical Drummer. You and him should collaborate sometime!! Anyway, your videos are all very informative, with language that can be understood by Laymen's terms. Keep it up Bruh. ☮️ From Kansas City, Missouri. (Central U.S. or the MidWest)
How about learning these mechanics through playing actual music?
I am 54 yrs old and about to start playing drums. I am getting a nice, used set of Gretsch Renowns: 10, 12, 14, 22 kick with matching 14” snare, all hardware and some decent cymbals. I have played guitar for 40 years and have a very light touch. Please advise - Can experienced drummers develop a light touch on drums to help keep the volume way down at home…or do you think having low volume cymbals, either Evans DB One mesh toms or simple pads to lay on toms, putting some muffle material against the kick heads, and laying a Sabian Quiet Tone Snare Drum practice pad on my snare would be necessary. Trying to keep my family happy and protect my hearing. Thanks!