Current Lesson:

Lesson: Multiple Brain Attention Exercise
Description: Exercise the various parts of your brain used in drumming! :-)
(Also see related article: Kenwood's review of A User's Guide to the Brain by John Ratey)


Previous Lessons:

Lesson: Considerations for Evenness

Lesson: Grading System
Description: This whole system was originally designed for affording the student a means for quantifying his/her performance in order to track his/her progress. However, it may hopefully have some value for professional artists as inspiration or as a tool for gaining perspective or as promoting their product.

Lesson: THE 15 MINUTE WAIL
Description: Here is an exercise concept which can serve as a wonderful technical warm up and a vehicle for experimentation with spontaneous musical thematic ideas. I call it the 15 minute wail. Each time you play a fifteen minute wail, go ahead and play intensely for exactly fifteen minutes. Whatever specific exercises you play, please give it your best most focused effort.

Lesson: Displacement Exercise
Description: This displacement exercise comes from the book The Rhythmic Principles and Practice of South Indian Drumming by Trichy Sankaran...please feel encouraged to order it from Lalith Publishers - 31 Manadon Drive, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada M2M1W8.