What is a Drummer to do?!?!

[angryfish]

Let us know about your warm-ups...what is your natural reaction to sitting down to a fresh set and feeling a little "tight"

do you warm up "singles" right away...work on your feet?

let us know the routine...

[marlin1805]

There aren't too many drummers on here

[JoeOfwhereIam]

eight on a hand







then eight on a foot.




then variations of that





some rudiments perhaps






if i'm real tight some streaching....







and whatever else pops into my mind depending on how I feel...and apparently large spaces between things helps too....

[mattbrown521]

Bang one side.

Bang another.

Repeat as needed.

[justinfisher78]

eight on a hand


there's someone with a rudimental/marching background :)

[Martial14]

I would always warm-up for marching band, though I must confess I never had regular warm-ups for playing on set or ensemble percussion. When I sit down on a set I just jam very lightly to get the blood flowing, but thats it.

I think my marching routine could help a bit. We would do the 8 one a hand, tap accents, doubles and tripples, rolls, all the fun stuff...starting with the simple and slow and moving up. The same thing would work for warming up on a set I would think. Just move the stuff around the drums, bring in the feet for whatever you can Start slow, speed up, and end slow again.

[JoeOfwhereIam]

I would always warm-up for marching band, though I must confess I never had regular warm-ups for playing on set or ensemble percussion. When I sit down on a set I just jam very lightly to get the blood flowing, but thats it.

I think my marching routine could help a bit. We would do the 8 one a hand, tap accents, doubles and tripples, rolls, all the fun stuff...starting with the simple and slow and moving up. The same thing would work for warming up on a set I would think. Just move the stuff around the drums, bring in the feet for whatever you can Start slow, speed up, and end slow again.

agreed completely.

[man12stepsrocks]

Let us know about your warm-ups...what is your natural reaction to sitting down to a fresh set and feeling a little "tight"

do you warm up "singles" right away...work on your feet?

let us know the routine...

Send me an e-mail and remind me, I'll scan in some of the stuff I warm-up with.

I have a big marching percussion background, so its mostly rudiments and the like. I don't do really anything to warm up my feet, I figure walking does enough of that.

[angryfish]

8 on each limb (including high-hat FOOT) is a GREAT way to warm up...Always be sure to keep quarter notes/eighth notes going on the HH the whole time to get that beat flowing as well

[JoeOfwhereIam]

Also, my drum teacher showed me just playing the ground like your bass drum pedal was their (or high hat) like you usually do in repetition is a great warm up. you start to feel the burn after a while. You can do this with your whole leg involved bouncing up and down (like you might if you were playing loud) and also just with the ankle/foot.

And walking doesn't do enough foot warm up. Not unless you are content with just playing quarter notes on bass drum.