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The Feeding
07-20-2006, 04:11 PM
okay, i have come to the reailization that insane speed is something you are born knowing and doesnt come from practice. what the hell do you "practice" to be able to play fast, by fast i mean something like....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2OO_t7SAHY

....that
DillingerEscp
07-20-2006, 04:16 PM
all I know is that that guy never practiced a day in his life to be able to do that...


seriously though, theres a lot of things you can do to practice... you can use a metronome, like the one in the video, and start slow, and just play some straight double bass for a long while... that video wasnt that impressive really. 5 years ago I wouldnt have been able to do any of that... now, with exp. and practice, I could do that easily.
MXicanDrummer
07-20-2006, 04:46 PM
okay, i have come to the reailization that insane speed is something you are born knowing and doesnt come from practice


You sir, are ****ing retarded, wait till Josiah gets a hold of this.
FockerTheLopper
07-20-2006, 04:51 PM
You sir, are ****ing retarded, wait till Josiah gets a hold of this.
Its sarcasm. I know its hard to detect over the internet but if you read the rest of his post...
Electric Requiem
07-20-2006, 05:07 PM
He wasnt playing amazingly fast, my double bass is up to that speed and frankly I can play alot of the double bass beats he played. His fast fills were not so much speed as insane coordination. Its like Portnoy's hand, hand, bass, bass fills: because you are using all four limbs you are not playing at a blinding speed, but it does require immense coordination to play cleanly.
FockerTheLopper
07-20-2006, 05:46 PM
I have very bad double bass chops, never worked at them, but "stock" they suck. I had it okay at one point(was able to play that Trivium song, something with a matryd or something forgot the name) but it took too much maitence for me to keep up, maybe in a couple of months I'll be able to play without spending most my time on it.
fishbulb
07-20-2006, 06:09 PM
He wasnt playing amazingly fast, my double bass is up to that speed and frankly I can play alot of the double bass beats he played. His fast fills were not so much speed as insane coordination. Its like Portnoy's hand, hand, bass, bass fills: because you are using all four limbs you are not playing at a blinding speed, but it does require immense coordination to play cleanly.

I didn't think that it was amazingly fast either, just well coordinated.
FockerTheLopper
07-20-2006, 06:15 PM
I didn't think that it was amazingly fast either, just well coordinated.
and clean and even and perfect time.
Carn
07-20-2006, 07:10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ut33RtU6Ik


much better example. Good exercise as well. Altough you hear that he kinda loses it, hehe.
Carn
07-20-2006, 07:18 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA4Sq0mqU-k&search=george%20kollias

part of a clinic he did in Holland. People can look for the rest.
DillingerEscp
07-20-2006, 11:48 PM
yeah honestly, those really fast role type deals arent that difficult at all.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6249665897630788884&q=My+Drumming+Solo

heres an olldd vid of me just playin around... I think I do a couple of them in there.

forgive the bad quality, sloppiness.
Carn
07-21-2006, 05:11 AM
short bursts like that are a totally different thing compared to continious rolls.