Welcome to the forum, i don't really have any suggestion for you as I play heal up most of the time, but I don't experience much fatigue so I have never given endurance exercises much thought.
Welcome to the forum, i don't really have any suggestion for you as I play heal up most of the time, but I don't experience much fatigue so I have never given endurance exercises much thought.
Work on flams with right hand and bass drum. That's both of em at the same time, yeah, then try hi hat, bass, hi hat, bass, then mix stuff up.
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The easiest exercise is to get a decent method book...Elementary level with excercises in simple time signatures and snare drum stickings. Lots of quarter notes, eighth note, sixteenth notes and triplets would be good. Play through your exercises as you normally would. Then, starting with the easiest of them, turn the book upside down and you now have bass drum exercises. Play quarter notes on your pad to keep the tempo even while doing your foot exercises. To make it easier, I wrote a method book for myself and my students years ago that I call Bass Kicks. It wasn't hard to do, just started writing some simple hand and foot coordination exercises.
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Since you are having endurance problems, I would explore going to the heel up technique. Instead of playing with the calf muscles, you will be playing with the thigh and hip muscles. There's a lot more endurance there. Also, I am assuming that your technique starts out well, but falls apart as you wear out, so when you go to the new technique, just slow down, as ETF mentioned, until you begin to feel comfortable with the heel up technique. The fact that you have already learned heel down should help you eventually develop into a "heel-toe" player, and you could double your speed.
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Slow down and slowly build up your speed with practice. You're doing the same thing many young players do, trying to play beyond your abilities. Concentrate on your meter and accuracy the speed will come soon enough.
Good point PB, il try and elaborate a bit..
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I started off playing heel down and eventually got pretty proficient as my calf muscles got the hang of it... I did some basic calf exercises to get some strength and it worked wonders... Eventually i realized the benefits of playing heel up in terms of loudness and dynamics but it was a laborious thing to get used to especially as far as speed and timing goes... I read on this forum about using ankle weights (resistance) to develop the thigh and hip muscles (like PB mentioned) while playing and it really helps with building strength and eventually speed.
An aditional benefit of learning heel down is that (besides being good for jazz and low volume) it enables you to learn heel toe rather easily and we all know thats the proverbial Holy Grail of single (or double) pedal playing....
Also while playing heel up it might be a good idea to find a balance point on your drumstool where you dont fall backwards or forwards... I personally sit on the edge on my stool so i can use my thigh muscles freely....
Good luck....
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Well in my experience gaining speed with the pedal is the same as gaining speed with your hands. Use a metronome,start out at a fairly medium pace (say 60 bpm) then master that speed, once you do that then bump up no more then 5bpm, then master that pace, then bump up again and master, then bump up, and keep doing this until you can do the pace you want.
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imo heal up has more control
pay attention on how you sit
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