{"id":482,"date":"2014-04-05T01:40:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T08:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2023-11-14T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:26:16","slug":"thomas-pridgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/thomas-pridgen\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying Rudiments To Your Drum Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8T-85IbmuxE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you ever thought rudiments weren&#8217;t useful or awesome, think again. Thomas Pridgen joined us for a lesson on how to apply rudiments around the drum set. He plays with such a crazy amount of precision, power, and speed, and breaks down his ideas in a way that most drummers can understand.<\/p>\n<p>This lesson is full of ideas to try! Check out the rudiments and articulation exercises Thomas demonstrates starting at around 16:00. Challenge yourself by practicing rudiments with your hands over a bossa nova ostinato on your feet. Learn to lead with both your right and left. Thomas shows you how to get creative and break up rudiments between the snare, kick, cymbals, and toms.<\/p>\n<p>Rudiments can help you take your drumming to another level. Find your voice and, as Thomas says, &#8220;Make it weird!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Index:<\/strong><br \/>\n0:14 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;State of Grace&#8221; by Zenith Patrol<br \/>\n7:07 &#8211; Drum solo<br \/>\n9:54 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n15:22 &#8211; Articulation exercises<br \/>\n25:18 &#8211; Applying rudiments to the drum set<br \/>\n39:28 &#8211; Differences and similarities in drumming styles<br \/>\n49:10 &#8211; The balance between jamming and practicing exercises<br \/>\n52:52 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Hypnotized&#8221;<br \/>\n1:03:25 &#8211; The trick to playing fast<br \/>\n1:13:00 &#8211; Developing foot speed<br \/>\n1:24:55 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Disturbing&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas plays:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwdrums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DW Drums<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zildjian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zildjian Cymbals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evansdrumheads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evans Drumheads<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.daddario.com\/products\/percussion\/promark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Promark Drumsticks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Thomas:<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThomasPridgenFanPage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/badassthomaspridgen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever thought rudiments weren&#8217;t useful, think again. Thomas Pridgen shows you how to apply them in cool ways around the drum set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038,4034],"tags":[29,111,9,32],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons","category-rudiment-applications","tag-drum-lesson","tag-drum-rudiments","tag-drumeo","tag-how-to-play-drums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49175,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/49175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}