Feel the burn.
I decided I needed to work on my legs, and now they are aching. My right leg in particular. I don't use a double pedal yet, since I'm just getting started, (an Iron Cobra double pedal will be on my wish list by Christmas, probably) so my right is my primary kick leg since the Hi-Hat requires a release rather than an actual kick in most instances.
My technique isn't the best right now, sometimes I leave the beater against the bass pad and sometimes I let it come off a bit. On my e-kit this doesn't change the sound, but when I get onto an acoustic set it will, so I want to be consistent. I also don't have a lot of stamina yet, and long sessions with a lot of double kicks tire me out so that I miss kicks I should hit.
To help fix all of this I've started doing drills of kicking the 8ths at 100 BPM for 2 minutes. Non-drummers may think this doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's 400 kicks at just under 1/3 of a second each non-stop. For someone who's only been playing about 2 weeks, it's enough to cause a bit of pain by the time it's over.
My technique isn't the best right now, sometimes I leave the beater against the bass pad and sometimes I let it come off a bit. On my e-kit this doesn't change the sound, but when I get onto an acoustic set it will, so I want to be consistent. I also don't have a lot of stamina yet, and long sessions with a lot of double kicks tire me out so that I miss kicks I should hit.
To help fix all of this I've started doing drills of kicking the 8ths at 100 BPM for 2 minutes. Non-drummers may think this doesn't sound like a big deal, but it's 400 kicks at just under 1/3 of a second each non-stop. For someone who's only been playing about 2 weeks, it's enough to cause a bit of pain by the time it's over.
