Thanks for sharing your methods that work for you. There's so many ways we can all help each other with :)

My drums instructor used to attach weights to his ankles and walk around with them all day

Your process is important, I'm glad it worked for you :D

Any time!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yes I'm working more on my faster smaller muscle groups too at the moment and seeing lots of improvement. Keep at it my friend!!!

It is very very hard. And looking back at this video, I think there are some holes in my explanation.

Same here. It’s tough.

Same here. It is so frustrating. And I, dont, wanna be that, fast. I, just, want to, be able, to play some Agalloch, Opeth, Ulver, Borknagar and Moonspell songs

Glad someone else is on the same boat... Been trying to get to 180 bpm for more than a decade. Seems impossible...

Check out my latest double bass routine video. I've refined it over the years to help my students and myself achieve the speeds they want. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atRydpua097QmGw.html

YES that's exactly it :) I can't play as fast as you but I'm really training all my muscle groups like you and sticking to a routine. Thank you for the great insight !

@@ArtOfDrummingHQ you are a phenomenal drummer so you'll get there in no time. Songs that are great for double bass endurance and speed are twilights of the thundergod, laser cannon death sentence, and homo sum. Working towards these songs is a great way to make exercise less boring. But you would probably rather play something more musical :)

Cool I'll check them out, always good to have songs to motivate myself. Thanks for the recommendations my friend!

Thank you for taking the time to comment :)

Oh yeah totally, gotta respect our entire body. Great message Edrenn!

You're equally awesome too Leito!

Art Of Drumming HQ I've learn a lot from you thank you for make me awesome as you ;-)

Oh hey, I only take requests from my Patrons(it's one of their perks)

slow it down in audacity and take a crack at it by ear :)

I do actually have exercises for you and I can help you with your double bass. I can go better in detail through email, so feel free to drop me an email at dreamusichef@gmail.com

Probably not gonna last long haha

Cheers, enjoying is very important I agree. I'm glad you've found your balance!

If you hurt your muscles, you gotta recover first, don't injure them further. I had to stop drumming for 5 weeks because of a tendon injury in my right foot last year. Then after that, slowly get back into drumming, but be careful, take care of your muscles, find out the particular stretches and muscle exercises you need to get them in shape, and don't overexert yourself and go too fast, too hard, too soon.

Make sure you’re relaxed. And make sure your pedal spring tension is not too high. The only sole purpose of the spring is to return the pedal board for your next hit. You want to go as low tension as you possibly but that still gets your pedal board Back in time for your next note. For me this only mid tension on an iron cobra. On a pearl pedal it’s low tension, there springs are stronger. So I’d say try bringing spring tension down a good 7 or 8 turns and take your hand and pump 4 fast notes in a row with your hand. We’re you able to get them still. Try going a few more turns looser and pump again with your hand, still got the 4 fast hits. Good. Try that. Many drummers play way higher tension than they need and it’s only causing more effort to play fighting against the spring.

Unless you’re playing speed metal high tension is wasted effort. Plus with speed metal most of those guys are playing with their beaters close to the kick drum head. With close beater distance this creates less spring tension. So they have high tension but they have close beater distance which makes it less high. So if you have your beaters set up like most drummers at about 45 degree angle that adds more tension than speed metal drummers who keep real close beater distance. If you don’t play speed metal, and don’t have close beater distance def get those springs backed off. You will feel your control come back

Hahaha go for it

Perhaps you can tell me how you are practicing, what is your weekly routine, how long is a single session, as many details as you can give me. And when you are playing 16ths at 120bpm, what do you feel around the 1 minute mark. Do you feel like you're going off balance, which part of your legs do you feel are working and or tensing? Any information would help me see your problem more clearly.

@@ArtOfDrummingHQ I used to be a much better drummer but stopped when I was 19 because I had eczema on my hands and it's been almost six years (so that's the foundation of the frustration haha). I practice just my feet atm because my hands haven't gotten as bad, but I start off with single footed eighth notes alternating feet after a bar. Start from 100bpm to make sure my timing is good and when I've done gone through it multiple times without failure I go up 5bpm usually up to about 140bpm if my legs are fresh. Then I do the same but alternating feet for a bar of eighth notes then sixteenth notes, hit 120bpm get frustrated and start from 60bpm then get back to 120bpm. Then I'll fall onto my trusty triplets and try to do three minutes straight at 140bpm. I also do this exercise I saw that does like a paradiddle quarter notes then straight eigth notes but the lead foot constantly changes which is a good brain buster. I keep going in and out in waves trying to 120 for long periods of time but I can do 115bpm for two minutes and my quads and hips feel it the most.

@@ArtOfDrummingHQ oh and I practice for an hour everyday, I'm mainly the singer in my band but we fired the drummer so I'm trying to get back up to my skills so I think some of it might be mental but I dunno. When I was sixteen I was progressing faster than I am getting my skills back which doesn't help either.

Drop me an email at dreamusichef@gmail.com. I know how to fix your problem, I'm gonna send you my feet routine and some other stuff.

@@ArtOfDrummingHQ I tried but it says the email address isn't correct

If you look at the fastest metal drummers, even the less ideally built ones, you'll see that they have incredibly toned calves and hip flexors. Alex Rudinger, Chris Turner, Derek roddy, Virgil donati, Thomas. Lang, marthyn jovanovich... Etc etc. Perhaps name me some drummers with skinny and toneless legs that can play as fast as these guys.