is this healthy???

[ammo]

hey!

I was just wondering whether this was healthy or not, I just sat through a 2 hour film (sin city, what a great film) with a practice pad, well not actually a practice pad a cookery book, in front of me doing parradiddles straight from start of the film to the end of the film.

Now im not sure if thats healthy or some kind of obsession, by the end of it I ddidnt even realise I was doing them became like second nature like shuveling food into my gob. :naughty:

[Tillmon]

Wow, you did paradiddles for two hours? Good thing you made a thread about it. Now I think you're awesome.

[drummer_mp3]

Wow thats like me doing doubles for three hours and completely forgetting them until when I got up.

[White]

lol, thats pretty immpressive, I did parrididdles for an hour last ngiht, doing nothing else but that lol, talk about boring. but I know parriddles off by heart and I can do em much faster than I could before lol

[ammo]

lol, thats pretty immpressive, I did parrididdles for an hour last ngiht, doing nothing else but that lol, talk about boring. but I know parriddles off by heart and I can do em much faster than I could before lol

I know its hella boring, but if you watch a good film, just sit down tune out and its amazing how you dont even think about it, you just get down to it. I know parradidles so well now. Brilliant way to burn it into your head.

[Talos]

Didnt you hear constant tapping?

If I were to do it id do it with a towel to minimize noise so I could watc

[ammo]

I had a pillow case over the book to help, but once im set I can zone out of anything, youd have to poke me to check I was even still breathing.

[steeldrummer11]

I practice paradiddles on pillows, then when your playing them on a drum or pad theyre much easier to speed up, and or control since its a harder surface.

[Aaron]

i did singles with my feet from sydney to hobart on a plane. my brother paid me $10.

[FullMoon]

^ thats easy money

[jalel]

I know its hella boring, but if you watch a good film, just sit down tune out and its amazing how you dont even think about it, you just get down to it. I know parradidles so well now. Brilliant way to burn it into your head.


It's also an incorrect way to practice. When practiceing, you don't want any distractions. It's 50% mental and 50% physical. If you take away the mental part by distracting yourself, you're not learning as well. You should have done 2hrs straight with a metronome in a place with no distractions:thumb:

[ThirdlyDrummer]

hahaha sounds like something id do, but if i did paradiddles through a whole movie my wife would have slapped me before the title of the movie came up....maybe i should watch alone.....haha....shes always stealing my sticks from me when i tap on stuff. luckily my band practices at our guiatarists house. My drums are safe

[dairyairman]

When practiceing, you don't want any distractions.

and the reverse is true as well. when you're watching sin city, it's such a great film you don't want any distractions.

[santi3hg]

My drums are safe

haha lucky

anyways thats odd, i can never lose focus like that, though that is pretty damn awesome that you did it t hrough all of sin city :)

[LittlePound]

yeah, i was told to practice doubles on my leg while watching tv. You can tune it out after awhile.

[jalel]

and the reverse is true as well. when you're watching sin city, it's such a great film you don't want any distractions.


Oh definately, I got the extneded DVD for Christmas and I must have watched it at least 6 times. God I love that movie:)

[Blank]

It's an amazing movie.
Best thing to come out of 2005 imo.

[Killjoy]

wow dude thats pretty ****en amazing. im glad im not the first person that has done rudiment work while watching a movie. :D

[ammo]

Oh definately, I got the extneded DVD for Christmas and I must have watched it at least 6 times. God I love that movie:)

I got that for christmas as well fantastic film definetly best film of 2005. I probably shouldnt distract myself but it seems to of paid off, Im alot more solid on my parradiddles now, ill do another 2hrs tonight and I should be well away if I make as much progress as yesterday.

[Skin Beater]

Yeah the threadstarter just wasted a huge amount of time. If you don't practice with a metronome and with 100% concentration you're going to develop bad habits and your chops are going to be sloppy. Just like Josiah says, practice doesn't make perfect it only makes permanent, and you're going to have permanent sloppy hands if you practice like that. 20 minutes of dedicated 100% focus practice in 10 million times better than 2 hours of sloppyness.

[Lt. Stone]

wow thats pretty crazy. just watch out for carpal tunnel! :eek: