Songs and their Tempos

[Markdude465]

I was just practicing rudiments at 150bpm, and decided to take it down a notch to 140. That got boring.

Then I rememberd that Acid Rain is at 140bpm, so I practiced to that for a while. The time flew.

So my question is this... Do any of you practice rudiments to songs with steady tempos? And what songs are at what tempos, etc.? I'd like to end up with a list of decent songs that cover basically the whole range of tempos, like say, for every 5 bpm....

*shrug* just a thought. I know you play along to DM tunes, ICM, so what do you recommend? What songs are at what tempos?

[C.J.]

These songs from Angra:
- Nova Era;
- Jugment Day;
- Millennium Sun;
- Spread Your Fire;
- Angels and Demons;
- The Temple of Hate.

Sorry I forgot the tempos, but these songs are great for working out.

Regards,
Me.

[cjcdrums]

Almost every night before I go to bed, I take my throne and place it next to my bed, and I put my Real Feel practice pad on the throne and place this large mirror a few feet away from the bed so I can watch my technique. I put on some music to play rudiments along with, and work on my traditional grip.

It's actually become quite enjoyable, and not something I dread. I usually play for like an hour or an hour and a half before I hang it up.

And I just work on things like flam-5's, flam paradiddles, flam accents, cheeses, flam drags, double paradiddles, single and double stroke rolls, and hybrids I make up.

I can't tell you how much it's improved my hand technique and control with traditional.

[Markdude465]

why traditional grip, and what the hell are cheeses?

[cjcdrums]

Here's a cheese...

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/9356/cheese.gif

And I play traditional grip because it's unique among rock drummers, it looks better, and I like how I think differently when I play with it. For some reason when I play matched, I have a tendency to get redundant with my fills and grooves. When I play traditional, I think more dynamically, if that makes any sense...

[IronCobraMan]

i myself dont like working on cheeses.... i rather work on pastramis and onion rolls....onion rolls get it..... :D

[IronCobraMan]

also..... i play all my rudiments between 100 120 bpm...all the time.... and work on dynamics.... and if u guys think that this wont help ur rudimental speed.... jus bring up ur metronome 50 bpms after doing this for a while....and see how smooth u can play at rediculous tempos......

Cleveland "it was rediculous day down at the market today...where prices were so low ,they were rediculous"

[C.J.]

Cheeses = good for the left hand.

[Markdude465]

Ah, the power of cheeses...

...what was this thread about, again?

[vdreignsuponus1]

what if you were to take away that last left/right and play it like it's a flam accent except a diddle on the flam? would it still have the same name? because i've been calling that (what I'M talking about) a cheese flam..

[cjcdrums]

Actually I used to call those cheeses too. I corrected myself when I saw the notation.

Unless that notation's wrong perhaps...

[vdreignsuponus1]

if those are cheeses, then i guess i learned them wrong?

heh, i really hope the notation's wrong, haha!