Concepts – James Payne Drums

How To Use The Metronome In Our Practice

How To Use The Metronome In Our Practice In this lesson you will find: 17:51 min Explanatory Video Description: The metronome is often misused in our practice sessions and becomes more of an obstacle than a helpful tool. Let’s see together what is the right way to use the metronome and clarify its role in …

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Vertical Motions VS. Lateral Motions

Vertical Motions VS. Lateral Motions In this lesson you will find: 13:34 min Explanatory Video Description: Often, our body moves laterally or vertically without our complete control, but, is there a benefit in using either lateral or vertical motions? Let’s understand what are the differences and how we can benefit from both these way of …

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Writing Drum Parts

Writing Drum Parts In this lesson you will find: 8:47 min Explanatory Video Workout PDF Description: Many times we find ourselves in situations where we have to write drum parts for songs and we can’t really come up with an original idea or we don’t know if what we are playing is the right thing …

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Study Method pt.II

Study Method pt.II In this lesson you will find: 14:16 min Explanatory Video Workout PDF Description: How do we control multiple things happening all at the same time? What allow us to hear and physically control 2, 3 or 4 limbs at the same time? Let’s see together what’s the best practice method to speed …

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Speed

Speed In this lesson you will find: 14:06 min Explanatory Video Workout PDF Description: Many times we do exercises and workouts to improve and gain speed on drums but, what is speed exactly? What does speed on drums means? Let’s see and understand this concept together and develop an efficient workout to improve our feet …

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Feet Position On The Pedals

Feet Position On The Pedals In this lesson you will find: 8:04 min Explanatory Video Description: One of the most frequent questions I get on posture is where you should position your feet on the pedal while playing or speeding up. Let’s solve this mistery once for a life time and understand exactly why and …

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How To Set Up A Drum Set

How To Set Up A Drum Set In this lesson you will find: 10:09 min Explanatory Video Description: One of the most common issue for many drummers is to find the right way to set up their drum kit and be comfortable playing it. It often happens that everytime we set the drums up we …

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No Springs Feet Technique Exercises

No Springs Feet Technique Exercises In this lesson you will find: 13:36 min Explanatory Video Description: One of the keys of developing my feet technique has been working using the pedals with no springs. There are many benefits in practicing taking the springs off and just relying on the rebound of the beater that really …

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Isolation

Isolation In this lesson you will find: 13:08 min Explanatory Video Workout PDF Description: How many times do we hear about Ankle Motion, Wrist Motion, Finger Motion and so on? In this episode we will understand how important it actually is to know how to isolate and to use certain specific parts of our body …

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The Fulcrum

The Fulcrum In this lesson you will find: 12:45 min Explanatory Video Description: How to hold the stick and understand where the fulcrum point is, is foundamental to play drums relaxed and have full control of what we’re doing in any grip and technique we use. Most of the time we just hold the stick …

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Course Category: Concepts