{"id":6521,"date":"2017-08-10T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2023-03-05T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T23:23:39","slug":"practicing-drums-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/practicing-drums-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Drums Anywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w50mw4ohbXw\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back when Jason Sutter was in college, he struggled to find a way to effectively improve his drumming while away from his kit. Sure, he had a standard practice pad and a pair of sticks at his disposal &#8211; but what about those times where he needed to practice in absolute silence? Or when he didn&#8217;t have a\u00a0surface to play on entirely?<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a wonderful little tool called the wire brush. In today&#8217;s lesson, we&#8217;re going to focus on how to practice your chops virtually anywhere by utilizing brushes. Even if you don&#8217;t plan on learning certain technique&#8217;s exclusive to brushes, you can still practice all your usual rudiments and exercises you would normally do with sticks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are three benefits that are exclusive to practicing with brushes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0They produce very little sound so you won&#8217;t disturb anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0They can be played on any surface at your disposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 They have little to no rebound which gives your wrists and fingers a killer workout.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you don&#8217;t even have a surface to play on? No problem! Watch the video to see how you can still get an effective workout without one!<\/p>\n<p>Interested in learning brush technique?\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2wM2uXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Jason&#8217;s Drumeo live lesson here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when Jason Sutter was in college, he struggled to find a way to effectively improve his drumming while away from his kit. Sure, he had a standard practice pad and a pair of sticks at his disposal &#8211; but what about those times where he needed to practice in absolute silence? Or when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4029,4018],"tags":[13,501,48,408,152,800,331],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-tips","category-technique","tag-drum-lessons-2","tag-drummer","tag-drumming","tag-drums","tag-free-drum-lessons","tag-how-to-practice-drums","tag-vic-firth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10365,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions\/10365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}