Just got an Akira Jimbo video... holy crap...

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Akira Jimbo - Independence

Man that dude is incredible. A machine. I thought I was slick because I nailed the 1st practice pattern in like 30 seconds. Yeah, who's da man? Then the 2nd one was like hitting a brick wall, heh....
I totally love the way he simultaneously plays clave with his left heel, tricky hat patterns with his left toes, snare and hats with his left hand, and fills and the actual music with the triggers with his right hand. Talk about independence, its incredible.
Anyone interested in some good exercises check out Marco Minnemans book and CD called Extreme Interdependence.
I dont even have drum kit yet, ha.

[Bdrum]

Thats a very good lesson!
David Garibaldi and Mike Spiro did a clinic in Portland ORE, 10 years ago on the Clave and it rocked,grooved,kicked ass!
Interdependence is very dificult to learn quick.Very Good!
So how is it that are you practicing?

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Pads.
I just won and recieved a Pacific snare and a tom off ebay, thats my kit, lol.
I can play a kit as well as most of the drummers that roll through my studio, for some reason, and I've never owned one. But then, I've played drums on tables and steering wheels to everything I like for 20 years, and played it right. I always thought I was meant to be a drummer, and, this is the 1st time I've said THIS out loud, but I think I may have been a drummer in another lifetime or something. Ha....
I already know a lot of the basic beats, have for years, and I can even do some semi-tricky hat work and kick work, and I can almost play as smoothly on a left handed kit as I can on a right. I've been practicing my beats left handed too. The hardest part of it all for me is only getting to sit behind someone kits for maybe 10 minutes a month, it takes me a while to get smooth when I havent been behind them in a while.
The stuff that interests me the most is the tricky independence exercises and stuff. Some of it just seems impossible. Some of it might be from the looks of it. It really is like hitting a brick wall sometimes.

[TamaSabian]

Paul,
What you said it´s amazing, is the same thing that happened to me 14 years ago. I rented a kit for the first time just to fool around with some friends trying to do "music" . After I was behind the kit my hands started to play it by instinct, nobody teach me how to do it, I just sat down and everything went smoothly.

Right now I´m taking lessons, my teacher is one of the greatest round here, but he´s teaching me jazz, I don´t know if this is gonna help me or not, but I have to work hard because I didn´t realize how difficult was to play that style. Feeling the swing, it´s not like traditional music, there´s no kick at all, just 2 and 4 with the hats along with the swinging ride. BTW I saw Akira Jimbo doing a master class last year, he impressed me a lot.

Alfonso

[mattamatta]

Haha, I'm the same way with drums. I haven't had my own kit ever, but I've been drumming on things for years. I'm holding a pair of sticks right now actually. I keep em next to my computer, and drum on my legs and invisible crashes just about all the time these days.

But I'm mainly a guitarist.

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Originally Posted by mattamatta

Haha, I'm the same way with drums. I haven't had my own kit ever, but I've been drumming on things for years. I'm holding a pair of sticks right now actually. I keep em next to my computer, and drum on my legs and invisible crashes just about all the time these days.

But I'm mainly a guitarist.

Me exactly. Now I'm a drummer too. Bwahahahaha. The Gods smile upon me.