Excercises

No need to wait for the audition piece to start piece practicing!
Here are a few exercises to help prepare you for the audition piece.  (and just general good practice)

• Start the exercises at a comfortable speed
• Increase the tempo marking in small intervals until the desired setting.
• Take your time, and don’t sacrifice technique or sound quality for speed. 
•  Your goal should eventually be a marching tempo of 120 bpm (160 bpm for 12/8 exercises).
  (triplets at 160 are the same speed as 16th notes at 120)

These are merely a jumping off point.  They cover some basic hybrids, but this kind of approach can help for anything else

• Identify the rudiment, or pattern you wish to practice
• Break it down by hands
  • What is your left hand playing?  (put one hand on rim or leg)
  • What is your right hand playing?
  • If you are able to play each hand individually, it is not an issue of muscle or ability, you have to train your mind.
  • Make a small exercise, (right-hand, left-hand, together, etc….)
• Build the rudiment
  • Identify the correct sticking and be able to play that (check pattern)
  • Add parts of the rudiment piece by piece (flams, diddles, accents, etc, individually)
  • Make a small exercise building from the check pattern  (for example: check pattern, flam only, diddle only, flam and diddle)

Grid
Hybrid Schtuff A
Hybrid Pataflafla Grid

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