{"id":25913,"date":"2020-10-20T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=25913"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:22:31","slug":"why-you-should-sing-what-you-play-on-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/why-you-should-sing-what-you-play-on-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Learn Drum Parts Without Drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KIX53xAKQww\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/every-drummer-does-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">practiced drums while sitting in traffic<\/a>? Maybe tested out some rudiments on the dashboard? You can get even more sounds out of your own body while your hands stay safely on the wheel: by singing your drum parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/gregg-bissonette-take-their-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gregg Bissonette<\/a> is always singing drum sounds. As someone who does a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-read-drum-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sight reading<\/a>, he often has to figure out the drum part before he sits down on the kit. He assigns a different vocal noise to each drum or cymbal and sings out the patterns. A long crash might get a &#8216;pssshhhhh&#8217; sound, and a short hi-hat hit might sound like &#8216;tsst&#8217;. Even just remembering a series of sounds &#8211; for example, short short long &#8211; can cement it in your memory.<\/p>\n<p>The rhythmic pattern is just as important as the sounds you assign. How would you play the phrase &#8216;follow the yellow brick road&#8217; on the drums?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d follow the syllables, and maybe assign different sounds to full or partial words. Like the food-themed rhythmic exercises some drum teachers use to teach young students, vocalizing rhythms can help us internalize drum parts.<\/p>\n<p>So whether you&#8217;re in the car, in an apartment or in an airplane, sing the bass drum, the snare, the cymbals and the toms &#8211; even if it&#8217;s just in your head &#8211; and then translate it on the kit when you can.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Gregg explains how vocalizing parts helps us learn and internalize them long before we actually get to try them on the drums. We aren&#8217;t just drummers who hit things &#8211; we&#8217;re musicians, too!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregg Bissonette explains how vocalizing parts helps us learn them long before we actually get to try them on the drums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":25930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4029,4024,4016,4018],"tags":[4052],"class_list":["post-25913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-tips","category-song-tips","category-songs","category-technique","tag-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25913"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31687,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions\/31687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}