Drum Set Warm-Up Routine | Simon Phillips | Lesson

Drumroll! Simon here! Today I want to show you a very nice warm-up exercise inspired by Mr. Simon Phillips. I recently saw a video by Simon Phillips where he was talking about his warm-up and I find this really inspiring so I want to show you what he's talking about. And I did a little extras on this for my warm-up and I'm still using it and I'm still struggling with it actually. So let me show you what it's about. So we start with slow single strokes right left right left or left right left right, which hand you want to start with. And we use wrists only, so no bounces, no fingers. Then we change into double strokes right right left left right right left. Then we go into triplets, I mean three strokes, not triplets, sorry. One two three one two three one two three one two three and then four strokes one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four paradiddles and every stroke in the same tempo and still still no only wrists double paradiddle every stroke has the same volume and then triple paradiddle one and two and three and four and one so that's it that's that's the thing that simon phillips does simon phillips does and i added but what i'd like to do is i add a six stroke roll at the end so in but in uh in the in the usual 16th note tempo so if you were if you were playing in that specific tempo before like in eighth notes one and two and three and four and this would be a six stroke roll tempo so what you can change or what you can add during this is um when you ended playing with the four strokes like one two three four one two three four one two three four is you can do a right left left left right left left left right left left left right left left left or the other way around left right right right left right right right left right right right right and you start with three rights and one left right right right left right right right left right right right left right right left other way around left left left right left left left right left left left right left left left right all right so when you want to when you want to change the tempo into a faster one you start playing with with the bounces like even in single strokes try to feel the rebound of your stick from the head and let it bounce off easy and then when you go to your double strokes you accent the first strokes of the double strokes same with three strokes try to feel the bounces the rebound can even use a little bit of the molar technique same with four strokes one paradiddles double paradiddles triple paradiddles and then six or roll another thing you can do is count while you play it's a very nice exercise and I count only a quarter notes and I play 32nd notes so it's one and so on it's a very good exercise especially when you play three strokes or the double paradiddle because then the accents change throughout or against you the the numbers you're counting so when you go in three strokes it's like one three four and then you have a left-hand lead which leads you into the four strokes or the paradiddle and then in the double paradiddle you have the same thing it's like one two three four and then you go into the triple paradiddle so it's really challenging to count and play the accents against what you're accounting which is really nice so all right when you start speeding up the exercise like the whole thing you can change from playing wrist into bounces and when you go faster it's useful to use it's useful to use your fingers so in French grip or in the American grip and then especially for the three strokes and the four strokes and I'm still struggling with the four strokes because I'm not used to it and I don't do it very often to play four strokes in one hand especially my left hand is very weak when it comes to the four stroke pattern so let's let's speed it up a little bit and see how that goes and maybe I'll count 1 2 3 4 4 2 1 2 1 2 3 4 1 3 4 1 3 2 3 1 2 3 4 1 this is the whole warm-up exercise by Simon Phillips inspired by Simon Phillips all right I hope you like this video it's a very nice exercise I think and it warms up everything you need from wrist fingers like the mold you can use the molar technique as I mentioned before leave us a like subscribe to our channel ring the notification with the bell and yeah if you have any specific like warm-up exercise or rudiments that you want to learn and you don't know how just leave a comment in the comment section below the sheet music is down or you can download the sheet music in the video description down below and I see you in the next video