{"id":5830,"date":"2017-03-22T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2023-03-05T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T23:23:52","slug":"derek-roddy-blast-beat-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/derek-roddy-blast-beat-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Roddy&#8217;s Tips For Developing Blast Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U4o0VibtKqc\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/ultimate-toolbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bass Drum Boot Camp \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with Derek&#8217;s playing, you&#8217;ll know that he&#8217;s all about <b>balance<\/b>! When it comes to blast beats and double bass playing, having all limbs on an equal skill level is crucial to having a consistent sound &#8211; so that&#8217;s exactly what these tips are based around.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with an exercise that&#8217;s been most beneficial for Derek in developing his blast beats. We&#8217;ll be playing alternating 16th notes between the hand and the foot. You can play your hand on whatever surface you&#8217;d like! Move it around to get used to different levels of rebound. The main goal is to obtain clear, evenly spaced notes.<\/p>\n<p>There are 4 different combinations to practice:<\/p>\n<p>1) Right hand + right foot<br \/>\n2) Left hand + left foot<br \/>\n3) Right hand + left foot<br \/>\n4) Left hand + right foot<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20102318\/Untitled-362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"200\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20102318\/Untitled-362.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20102318\/Untitled-362.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20102318\/Untitled-362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20102318\/Untitled-362.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20102318\/Untitled-362.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/derek-roddy-foot-hand-speed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00bb Related: One Exercise To Develop Foot Speed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Two things to note<\/b>: Start with your weaker side&nbsp;and start with at a tempo that&#8217;s just above your comfort level. We want to push ourselves to get to those top speeds!<\/p>\n<p>The next tip is more of a concept rather than an exercise: <strong>use your weaker side MORE<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re playing with other musicians and you can execute what you need to play when your weaker side (whether that be your hand, foot, or both), do it! A lot of times when performing, we&#8217;ll go right into autopilot mode and play what&#8217;s comfortable for us. Challenge yourself! Remember&#8230; You&#8217;re only as fast as your slowest limb.<\/p>\n<p>For even more tips and exercises to develop your metal drumming, you gotta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/developing-speed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out Derek Roddy&#8217;s hour-long Drumeo lesson<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass Drum Boot Camp \u00bb If you&#8217;re familiar with Derek&#8217;s playing, you&#8217;ll know that he&#8217;s all about balance! When it comes to blast beats and double bass playing, having all limbs on an equal skill level is crucial to having a consistent sound &#8211; so that&#8217;s exactly what these tips are based around. Let&#8217;s start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":10114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4027,4018],"tags":[13,152],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hand-technique","category-technique","tag-drum-lessons-2","tag-free-drum-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36066,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/36066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}