Category: Drum Tips and Tricks

TigerBill’s Drum Tips and Tricks offers tips on drums, drumming, and percussion. It provides an archive for your convenience. Unless posted otherwise, all tips have been supplied by TigerBill.

Basic Drum Lesson 7: The most critical skill that every drummer must develop

Basic Drum Lesson 9: Does Practice with a Metronome Help or Hurt Your Drumming?

Advance Drum Lesson 14: Are You a Natural Born Drummer?

Advanced Drum Lesson 15: Using Different Sticks for Practice than on the Gig

Advanced Drum Lesson 16: Buddy Never Took Lessons or Practiced So Why Should I?

Basic Drum Lesson 18: Counting Mulitple Bar Phrases

Basic Drum Lesson 20: The Most Important member of any band aside from the Drummer

Advanced Drum Lesson 21: And the Survey Says…!

Advanced Drum Lesson 28: Here’s a Tip for Improving Your Hand Chops

Advanced Drum Lesson 29: Who is the world’s greatest drummer?

Advanced Drum Lesson 42: Accented Triplet Sticking Patterns Up to Speed

Advanced Drum Lesson 43: TigerBill’s Double-Time Warmups

Advanced Drum Lesson 44: Are Drummers Real Musicians and Why or Why Not?

Basic Drum Lesson 50: OverPracticing Anyone?

Basic Drum Lesson 55: Learning Where One Is

Basic Drum Lesson 59: Pitch Matching Your Sticks

Advanced Drum Lesson 61: Tiger Bill’s Cure for Stage Fright

Basic Drum Lesson 62: Is Knowing Rhythm Enough?

Advanced Drum Lesson 62: Is It Ever Too Late To Learn?

Advanced Drum Lesson 66: Flying Around the Drumset Blind

The Key to Breaking Through to the Next Level of Speed!

How NOT to Practice Your Rudiments!

Practice Pads are Good But Real Drumsets are Better!

Top Drumming Speed Requires Fast Reflexes