As a drum teacher for 15 years i have to say that this video is very helpfull to all my students. Simple, direct to the point and efective. congrats!!

I recommend doing this routine 3x at least, 5x at most a week and resting for 2 days at least. Also take into account all the other activities that you are doing weekly like other kinds of drumming practice, work, exercise, everything adds up. Hence the intensity and consistency looks different for everyone. Some need to practice more, some need to pace themselves. You might have to stop other kinds of intense activities that work your legs and feet and devote more into double bass training to ensure that you have enough consistency yet don't over fatigue them. Making double bass a priority is essential for speed and control. It is one of the hardest things around to be good at. Adjust the entire routine's speed to fit your current thresholds. Stick to 1 tempo for an entire week or 3 practice sessions at least. Then go to the next and do that tempo for 3 sessions or for that whole week. If you increase by 1bpm or 1% you will increase your bpm by 48 in a year and that is A LOT. If you're not interested in building fill vocabulary, then you can skip exercises 8 and 9. But they will help you build a better overall facility of using double bass if you do them. Just that the pattern work can be more challenging to some than the other exercises so you have to slow them down a lot more at first. PDF to routine here (free) www.artofdrumminghq.com/product-page/double-bass-routine-exercises Hope this helps, remember Practice + Patience = Progress

I’m going to incorporate this warmup into my daily routine. I love that you look at not only drumming, but the functions that drumming requires of our bodies. And how we have to take the time to care for our bodies to continue doing what we love. Playing the drums. Really appreciate your effort in making these videos. Thank you

Someone should also show drummers lower back exercises. So many old school drummers have back problems from sitting with bad posture

Bro I've been following you since you had like 5k subscribers. Your channel is a blessing to the drum community. God bless you ❤

Excellent lesson! You are one of the few players and teachers who emphasizes breathing. Breathing is so incredibly important in drumming that I'm surprised most do not give it much thought.

Thanks so much, from Argentina ❤!

I cannot thank you enough for this man. Used to be able to hit those fast tempos no problem when I was a teenager and doing sports full time, so I had the stamina and leg muscle tone to do it. But over time I've since lost that endurance and muscle memory to get to those higher speeds. Will be using these exercises for sure! Love the content man.

As someone who's been trying to get better foot control consistently for double kick, this is invaluable, i will try this today.

Exactly what i was looking for, THANK YOU!

Thank you so much for this lesson!❤🤝🏻🙏🏻

I just got my first e kit and have been struggling with pedal rudiments and techniques,I can't say I finished the whole video I had to tap out alot sooner but I'll keep working at it, it's extremely detailed and well done easy to follow for a new player like me, thank you a ton for posting something like this the stretches at the end was a really nice touch too I'm sure alot of people actually needed that I know I did I keep forgetting lol

So you finally did it! Thank you for the help and advice I really, my tendon is healing, I will incorporate the whole routine, keep the good work 🔱!

This video is so good. I love that you even added a stretching section to this routine, very underrated element and very important aswell as overlooked by most

Thank you so much for this informative video, still learning double bass and will definitely try this!!

Absolutely well rounded routine-video. Congrats and ThankU

Great lesson, man. Thanks for sharing

Your material is gold, it shows that you do it with love and dedication

This is a wonderful tutorial! Thank you for sharing!

This is an excellent video! Thanks for posting it!!!🥁🥁🥁

Excellent work, thank you for sharing! Appreciate your dedication and discipline 👍🏼

Nice step by step. Thanks for putting this out to help drummers improve.

Thank you! This is the kind of routine I need.

Woah! You just helped this jazz trained drummer with a right leg condition to finally take on double-pedal. My friend gave me one of his double pedal saying I was so eager to try it but I never really had the nerve to set it up to practice seriously until now. I just followed all the routine with just my feet on the floor up until the fill-in patterns, and I could actually do it! Sure, it was far from perfect - and far from a perfect way of practicing - but if I can do it, anyone can. I've been playing for nearly 20 years and haven't found anything motivating me to seriously practice again between rehearsals and shows. Something in the flow of this routine really works, and my leg feel better than before after the stretches! Thank you so much!!!

Very nice routine!!! So many thanks!! Recomended 🤘🏻

Amazing ideas and techniques, this was very helpful for me. Thank you!

I love your work thank you so much

Very good advice and good teaching , thanks.

I'm gonna def try these

Good stuff man , Thank you. 👍

Great comprehensive routine. Thank you for sharing. I will be giving it a go for a while and see what happens.

Downloading this exercise !!!

Awesome stuff, I've been incorporating yoga as full body warm up before my drum routine and as a cool down /stretching post for about a year and it's made a big difference in my recovery time and general drum fitness. Im so happy to see other fellow drummers demonstrating their physical routines in conjonction to their drum practice... Also loving the double bass routine ..ill try to remember to update in a month or two, note the improvement. Cheers man!

Thank you, well done. I'm sweating now and my heart rates up! Will use this to start my practice.

Thank you for sharing!

That's all good man. But HOW to play above 140 is the problem. How to place the foot, position, basic movement...that allows you to start to play

I would also suggest working harder on your left. I got this from thomas lang but its also kinda common sense, but do something like 1 bar of 4/4 8th noted on your right, then 3 bars on your left I also would switch it up and do the right for 1 beat then the other 3 beats do the left. Do any variation you can think of like that Its helped a lot with my left foot control since i tend to alternate all the time unlike more drummers who will always lead with right foot on triplets or quintuplets It also inadvertently helped with my speed too

Thank you! i will for shure be trying this out. getting better at double kick is a goal i've yet to achieve

Great video! Thanks!!

Dude this is so unbelievably helpful after the first double bass exercise before practicing each foot I did that and instantly felt more loose. Thank you so much

So helpful for me because I'm using now double pedal thanks so much

Loved it!!!

great vid man, adding it to my routine

Thank you so much! You are a fantastic instructor. I love yoga, but I often get caught up in working too much to provide myself time to stretch. I really appreciate the inclusion of the stretches at the end, as it encouraged me to take time to relax instead of pushing onward with practice. Thank you!

This video is not only extremely helpful to develop feet technique, it is also teaching self awareness of the body, which most of the time we don't pay attention and then problems can happen, so for me it is a very valuable info from the beggining to the end of the video, stretches included, i'll start aplying this method, i think it's gonna work for me, also i'm subscribing for more! Keep up your great encouraging content! 🥁🔥

Thank you so much.... this is the same thing that people are selling and you are doing it for free ....!!!!I will be using this tool for practice ....thank you again and keep up the good work brother

thanks for taking the time to make this video. great work!! subbed and liked.

Great video, definitely gonna try it out. I finally got back behind my kit after about 5 years of away time. I have Iron Cobra Pros but have played other kits that I felt much more comfortable on and felt like I could get to high BPMs very easily. Getting my pedals tuned is a constant battle and I feel like I have a brain-block when trying to play faster. I'm going to keep working on my mind muscle connection and start using this routine. Thanks

Thanks a lot❤i never practiced anything like this. Helped me a lot to be motivated. 🙏👍🖐️

ive done it and it really helps me get better as a beginner for double kick. thanks alot for making this video…. i will subscribe to this channel. more power to your channel

🔥🤘🏻😎🤘🏻🔥Great video, will start to do stretching more often.

This is great, not only does it improve speed but also control/independence. Props

Thanks!

Hi Wey, compliments on your great workout videos and thanks so much for posting them!! You are a genius! They are really good and I think they will be more helpful, beneficial and of effectiveness in the long run than the bass drum mastery or drum-technique academy video course. greetings, Dave

love the soundtrack change for the stretching segment lol. this video rocks.

Love this! People wana play like Matt Garstka (me included…lol) right after hearing him…killer warm up I’m gonna try. Also Congratz on 50k subs! Not an easy thing to do but you deserve it for the killer content you put out for the drumming community!!

What this really highlighted for me was the need to RE setup my kit. I play on a small electronic drumkit. Which I am TRULY grateful to even have, but at 194cm tall, I have specific sizing/spacing needs that aren't being addressed especially when I need to get to higher speeds/focus. To the point that even my left kick pedal is sliding while I play. Thanks for the great advice and the fun exercise!

congrats on 50k!

Es maravilloso el contenido del vídeo. Sirven bastante esos ejercicios.

This guy is a wise sage of drumming

Thank you master for this one. New subscriber here.

LOVE IT

hell fucking yes dude. I finally started to take ankle technique seriously and i can now say im starting to get the motion down! Its no longer coming from my shins! Still lots of work to do but you are such a godsend! Thank you!!!😊

I have been practicing with this video on all my techniques and I think it is helping me gradually still have a long way to go. I had to start out with it slower then increase gradually wish me luck.

i just got my first double pedal a few days ago, i have been playing on a single pedal for 7 years now. this video is literally making my shins and calves die yet say thank you. Really taking your videos and other tips to not overdo practice but this scratches that itch in my brain. I shall control myself. Thanks for the knowledge man!!

Excelent video! Son muchos ejercicios sencillos sumado a una vision global de los problemas mas comunes a los que nos enfrentamos! Mi rutina es muy similar y aprendi mucho con tus comentarios para mejorar! keep drumming!

Thank you so much for the wonderful and thoroughly prepared material and knowledge you share. I'd like to share my own experience, which is to do the exercises involving groove (hihat + snare) legs only so as to remove any dependence from the other limbs. Also same exercise exchanging lead foot and also each foot separately (e.g. for straight 8ths I do just the "end" with the left foot, or even try to play the "e" in 16th mode etc). Lots of permutations by following a limb isolation approach.

i'm 62 years old and thanks for these excises,,,, started to play drums for the excises.

Swag! I Love how this quickly gets someone playing 16th notes at 170 mhmmmmm 👏🏻🐺💯⚡️⬆️

Very helpful. I can do this now completely on time. Took me a month. 2 hours everyday after work I practice feet only until I got that down then I throw in my hands after a week of feet only. Now I have altered this a bit. When you do the single foot isolation exercise I don't do one foot at a time because I needed to feel and compare so I trade off 3 on right 3 on left then I do 5 on right and 5 on left back to back. It helped me compare and get accurate feeling on both feet. However I do isolation on limbs sometimes for a night still. This is great. Thank you.

Just... THANKS 🙏

Nice 🤘

I like how he says, “now it’s time for a similar exercise” and it’s 32note blast beat at 300bpm

I am so shit at this point. Got through exercises 1 & 2 at the 100 and 110bpms but had to drop exercise 3 & 4 to 117bpm, Exercises 5 & 6 to 69(nice)bpm. 7 I couldn’t get going and need to practise performing the exercise, and 8 was okay at 117bpm. The stretches felt good too. I’ll be back in 6 months! Thank you for this. 😊

this🔥

Hi, thank you SO MUCH for these lessons! I realized that my left foot was in serious need of improvement from working on your exercise #5 - even with feet alone the left is much weaker compared to my right. I've come to the (most obvious) conclusion that if I ever hope to gain speed and precision with my double bass rolls, then both feet need to be at least CLOSE to the same level of control. I would previously work on singles and doubles for my left foot alone, but exercise #5 approaches this problem from a completely different angle - 3's & 5's! AWESOME! Thanks again!! 😁😎👍

Nice

Thank you so much for this holistic video you've generously shared with us. =) And by the way, your playing is awesome. I have a quick question that I hope you can help me with. What technique do you recommend for quick doubles on a single pedal. Just two quick doubles in a groove. What technique do you recommend?

eh this lesson solid sia it helped me out with covering “in the end” esp the verses with the consecutive 16th notes on the bass drum, chorus can still tahan but the verse took me a while to get down

Thank you for this….

Great routine Sir! I want to try this for a month but first... Should I change my drive shaft before starting? My left pedal doesn't have rebound at all compare to the right one that goes to infinity. Second, I would love to see you play some extreme metal stuff exploding that speed. And finally. Congrats for the 50k Subs! 🪅🥳🎉 That's a great achievement right there! One of many more milestones to come.

Hey, i got to your videos over shorts and the Trick drive shaft short. I really like your way to explain. Myself learned that beside the drums building up muscles (calf and hips/thighs), core strength and stability and stretching them properly gave me a lot of progress and confidence. Especially bringing up my weaker arm and leg at the same muscle power, stability and endurance like my main ones. Now i am training my ankle technique. Do you tried to "find" your comfort tempo to feel the swing? Like i am starting at 190 and could do thr motion with both of my feed for like 4 min without much effort. You made one video where you told to using in midtempo 150-180(190) both ankles and hips/thighs. Did you started thst from lower bpm or higher bpm?

Valeu!

What is your transmission axis? I loved it

What about pedal type? Spring tension? When to use your quads and went to do use your ankles? pivoting techniques? Foot placement at different speeds? And all the other important dynamics? ??? On a positive note, I liked the inclusion of stretching and relaxation at the end

Thanks for this content, I started this routine 4 weeks ago after several years of not playing drums. The results are already there. The first days were hard and then I had a lot of ease. So I have a question: Can I readjust the tempo faster or is it better to continue with the original tempo?

At first I wanna play exercise7 in order to play every exercise. But I play this exercise in a week.I feel to progress my legs feeling. English is not my native language. Maybe strange language. I appriciate you.I wanna keep your exercise！

Been practicing a lot and was excited to get home from work to try this today. Turns out my feet, ankles, and legs didn’t work at all. Couldn’t even do 16th notes at 110bpm when normally that tempo is just fine for me LOL. Looks like I might need to take a few days off from the drums and then come back to it and try again 😢 Also that beat that’s from Matt and/or the other guy, that’s actually hard to play! As each quarter note is hitting with right foot, left foot, snare, then repeat. But as you try to speed it up it just get super confusing and entangling. I struggled to do that at 60bpm and here you are at 150 making it seem like nothing 😅

Brilliant video like always! I’m excited to slowly build up my speed. I stopped playing because I got so disheartened of being stuck at 145. I’m hoping this will break my rut. Would you recommend anything else to increase speed or just stick to these exercises and increase the tempo 1bpm weekly?

I also want to know the basic movement of your foot / ankle / thigh and which muscle group you are using while doing the high bpm double base

I went through a financially hard time and had to sell my drum kit I spent years building on and I didn't drum for about a year and a half and now I'm doing exercises on a cheap practice pad and following this video to strengthen my double bass again on a hard wood floor. Any suggestions? I will eventually build up on another kit but I would like to find ways to still keep myself warmed up and to practice while I save up

Hi! thank you for the video, I've been practicing this method for 2 weeks now. I have a question about exercise #6 (1.7x tempo for a minute): in this exercise I feel that my technique is wrong and it's very hard for me to do it, you said tempo can be slower, I feel comfortable playing it at a lower speed than exercise #3,4. Is it correct to lower this exercise so much? One more question, I want to learn ankle tecnique and you on your channel advised how to do it (video where you tapping on the floor), how do you advise to combine these exercises with routine and at what tempo can I start this exercises to develop ankle technique?

cant lie i already nailed the process to take my double kick to the next level, but, this video was still great to watch and will still be apart of my journey - maybe its just cos this guy is a top dude

You moved from a direct double bass pedal to chained DW 9002, is it? did you chose the DW9002 standard or the longboard? GREAT VIDEO 👍

great video, but i find i get way more out of it if i do a longer warmup, with more sixteenth notes and increasing tempos. it helps me be at peak performance for the actual exercises

Hi ! Would you say it is relevant and efficient to some extent to do this routine on the floor with only your feet ? I am only able to practice on an actual drumkit 2/3 x a week so the other days I'd practice on the floor at home. Thank you !

Great exercises! I'll try to work these into my practice sessions. Quick question. For some reason I can play a 16th note groove at 185bpm for five minutes straight (although sometimes my shin muscles get activated rather than my calves which tires me out). I can also play different sub-divisions and syncopated rhythms at 100bpm with my left foot. But for whatever reason I can't play exercises like 3 and 4 without fidgeting out of place. I always seem to rush even at very slow tempos. I usually practice playing 16th notes to 16th note triplets at 70bpm. I can hold it down for a little bit, but I always tend to rush during the middle of the exercise. Any suggestions? Your lessons have been a great help!

Do you think the Trick drive shaft makes the left pedal feel better/easier?

Perfect. Are you playing the accelerator or turbo DW5002?

I will try this out! Question though: what tempos would you recommend playing these exercises for someone who’s stuck at around 100-110 bpm?