How much time on yo padz dawgs.

[Cicatriz-ESP]

So how much time do you guys and gals spend practicing on a pad with a meterenome? I usually do short burst of maybe 15min like 3 times a day...Maybe ill play them for 30-45 min straight if im watching a show I like...

[TerranCmdr]

None. I have almost no time to myself these days with school. Besides, it pisses off my roommates.

[FockerTheLopper]

Lately no time but I like to get at least 2 or 3 hours in.

[Ellx]

^^ 2-3 hours? are you mad?

I usually just play some padwork when i couldn't be bothered going to my e-kit.


I was wondering, what exactly do you guys practice, like which rudiments are the best

[some jive turkey]

ehhh...about an hour I would say. When I'm not lazy.

I know it takes a rediculous ammount of time for my hands to actually warm up. it takes at least an hour, before they feel fully warmed up.

[FockerTheLopper]

^^ 2-3 hours? are you mad?

I usually just play some padwork when i couldn't be bothered going to my e-kit.


I was wondering, what exactly do you guys practice, like which rudiments are the best
I try ussually any free time I get I grab my practice pad. I don't have alot of time on my set and I don't time myself but I'm pretty sure throughout the day if I'm in my house for 5 hours I'll spend that much time with sticks in my hands and most of the time with sticks in my hands playing on a surface other then my leg. I practice the basic rudiments mostly and as they get more advanced I do them less and less but as I progress I do the less advanced more. I'll elaborate. Lets say you know one basic rudiment, the single stroke roll, one less advanced a paradiddle-diddle and a more advanced, a flam paradiddle. You'd spend the most time on singles getting it perfect and really fast and you'd work on the paradiddle-diddle trying to get it perfect at a slower speed then working it up(better way) or getting it fast but not so clean then buffing out the technique problems(works decently got my paradiddles fast a begginer but it could harm you in the long run). Once you got the single down then you move on to making your paradiddle-diddle as good and clean as you can make them and then work on the flam paradiddle the same way you previously worked on the paradiddle diddle. Of course you'll do 5 or 6 rudiments at a time, especially on the basic level. I'm doing singles doubles diddles flams flam taps flam accents for begginer and for middle I'm doing triple paradiddles, paradiddle diddles, ruffs, ratamacues(single, triple), 5 7 9 stroke rolls. I think theres on more but its not coming to me.

[Tim]

usually about 30 minutes in stickcontrol on pad then i try to make my own stuff up on the pad fora another 20 minutes then Ill go back to some rudiments.

[styler]

"how much should i practice??"

how good do you wanna be.

"what should i practice?"

what do you wanna be good at?

[TTTSNB]

Not very much, I prefer practicing on the full kit, I really should though.

[Phototropic]

Kinda related question

Can I practise rudiments and all that jazz on my kit instead?!

I hate sitting down with a pad, its so numbingly boring

[spirit]

Kinda related question

Can I practise rudiments and all that jazz on my kit instead?!

I hate sitting down with a pad, its so numbingly boring

I don't see why not really, although pad surfaces are often more responsive than heads, making it easier to get whatever your practising exactly correct, before applying it to the kit.

But if you need to practise rudiments to avoid boredom (and I could see why it would get boring), then by all means. It's better practising than not. Of course, here I am on the computer, when I should be practising. At least I'm doing something music related whilst I'm here though.

[milkmit]

about 40+ minutes per day, usually in periods of 20 minutes or so..

and I stopped using the metronome with it, for the most part. instead, I'll bang away to whatever song I have playing, which works well anyway because I'm in such a dynamics craze that I wind up doing all sorts of freestyle drag/roll/ghost/accent work (no clue what the proper name would be) to the music.. it's fun as hell.

[BSU_53]

Being as I live in a college dorm til may when I move into my buddy's house(i'll have the set there and ready by the time I'm moved in), probably a few hours at least if I get around to it. Oh well...

[FockerTheLopper]

Kinda related question

Can I practise rudiments and all that jazz on my kit instead?!

I hate sitting down with a pad, its so numbingly boring
Its not boring in any matter, just because you only have less sound options(you still have quite a bit) its still much fun.

[Senseless Apprentice]

Yeah. Do you know enough rudiments to keep you entertained? If not, that is a potential problem. I picked up a bunch of rudimental ideas from studying marching solos (John Pratt), and now I can sit through my entire jazz class (when it's not my turn to drum) and doodle away on the pad. Because I've recently learned all these new ideas, I can entertain myself on a pad for quite a while without getting bored.

[The Chemist]

spend more time on pads than drums

[milkmit]

how can the pad be boring?? they're the easiest to groove on, and it feels soooo good to clearly hear each little strike happen & sound precisely as it's supposed to when you're doing some long, drawn-out fill-type thing with all sorts of drags and ghosts and accents going on.. ahhh, so fun!

maybe it's just because I'm at the stage now (after just more than a year of playing) that playing that stuff on the kit is still sometimes a bit of a challenge....but playing it on the pad is often so much easier.. I don't know, but I sometimes would rather stick to the pad than the kit.. :)

[styler]

you should be on the kit whenever you can, the pad is only meant to be a silent substitute. you cant just trade it in for one or another. which is what alot of people do. you should be on the kit more. unless you only play at midnight

people dont care what people can play on a pad, we care what you can play on the kit.

[Loser]

people dont care what people can play on a pad

I do, but thanks for trying to generalize humankind into one absolute anyway.

[GhostGrooveMike]

Yeah practicing on a pad is better than a kit. Because you tend to slack of on a kit. I play for like 2 hours on pad

[Icky_Mettle]

anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour...but I don't have a kit yet :lol:

[The Philosopher]

This just inspired me to spend more time practicing rudiments.. That makes an hour today :s

[DillingerEscp]

I spend a lot of time on it, seeing as a pad is all I have for the next few months (until I go home from college)... But it all depends how free I am.

I usually start out with the stonekillers exercise, rrrr llll rrrr llll speed it up, blahblah... then do paradiddle, double para. trip. para. sixteenth notes at 200 bpm, (then keep speeding up until I get to 250)

then just goof off, and annoy the hell out of my roomate...

oh and recently I learned how to do the one handed roll real well, so Im gonna be practicing that and getting that really clean as well.

[White]

good, 10 mins a day now, well i try

[XAQ]

"how much should i practice??"

how good do you wanna be.

"what should i practice?"

what do you wanna be good at?

that's downright inspirational

[milkmit]

I do, but thanks for trying to generalize humankind into one absolute anyway.

thanks. I was gonna say something, but then I remember that whole "if you don't have something nice to say...blah blah blah".. :)

but yeah. that seems like a crappy take at why one should or shouldn't use a pad. who gives a f*ck what everyone else cares with regard to what you play and on what surface/instrument you play it on? I don't play the drums to be someone else's pony...

sure, ideally we'd all be behind the kid as much as we could. but we can't, and that's where practice pads come in. they've been infinitely helpful when it comes to figuring out a weird sticking pattern I'm having trouble with (since there's no other variables to confuse), as well as working out the subtle feel it takes to learn drags and all that fun stuff.

[fiojamdrummer]

how can the pad be boring?? they're the easiest to groove on, and it feels soooo good to clearly hear each little strike happen & sound precisely as it's supposed to when you're doing some long, drawn-out fill-type thing with all sorts of drags and ghosts and accents going on.. ahhh, so fun!

maybe it's just because I'm at the stage now (after just more than a year of playing) that playing that stuff on the kit is still sometimes a bit of a challenge....but playing it on the pad is often so much easier.. I don't know, but I sometimes would rather stick to the pad than the kit.. :)

Can anyone post a video of them grooving on a pad?

[Phototropic]

Yeah I mean....I'd much rather play on a kit, and groove on a kit like you're supposed to, I figured pad practise was for when you can't use the kit

Groovin' with hats / bass / snare is fuuuuuuuun

[styler]

thats exactly it phototropic. the pad is the alternative for when using the kit is out of the question. it should never replace the kit in anyway.

thanks. I was gonna say something, but then I remember that whole "if you don't have something nice to say...blah blah blah".. :)

but yeah. that seems like a crappy take at why one should or shouldn't use a pad. who gives a f*ck what everyone else cares with regard to what you play and on what surface/instrument you play it on? I don't play the drums to be someone else's pony...

sure, ideally we'd all be behind the kid as much as we could. but we can't, and that's where practice pads come in. they've been infinitely helpful when it comes to figuring out a weird sticking pattern I'm having trouble with (since there's no other variables to confuse), as well as working out the subtle feel it takes to learn drags and all that fun stuff.

i think the way you just explained it is pretty ****ty, atleast in the first paragraph. with that attitude your never gonna leave your basement.

do you know what a musician is?

dont think ya do.

cause im sure everytime you play a show you completely disregard the audiences opinion on your playing. cause the people that pay to see you play dont matter. yeah thats right.

[Killjoy]

well to be honest, as of right now my guitar player has my x-pad. he's been wanting to learn how to play the drums so i start showing him some rudiments (flams and parradiddles). so i havent practice at all w/a pad for quite sometime now. and thats a bummer

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

Thats a bit poo, but at least you guitarist will try mine just belts my kit and thinks she can play tis rather funny.

[Peg Dizzler]

^ Sounds a bit like me.

Uhh, so are there any specific pads that you'd recommend, or do they really not matter much?