6 years?! I want to learn for you lah! That double bass things, the sound is really great, yeah Korn Metallica, all of their drummer use that double bass drum

Practise makes perfect... 1-2 times a week should be great. Make sure your timing is great via metronome, that's the only way to keep up with the beat.

agree wit mike there
a metronome works wonders to ur practises
it builds up the inner clock

this is what i have been doing lately to "upgrade"....or at least try to upgrade 

Record yourself and playback. Listen for faults that you think you can clean up. Then rerecord until you are satisfied. Then compare the recording with your favourite drummer, or the drummer whose style is similar to yours. You will realise very quickly, that it's the really tiny aspects and the little things that separate good musicians from the pros. I know many good brilliant musicians, but very few are of pro standard. Even most of the teachers i see in music shops around the KL area are sloppy in their playing (NOT all of course).

This is also a great way to bring yourself down to the ground again when you think you're sooooo great. Works for me, whenever i think i'm the greatest bassist alive, i just record myself and playback and i'm back to "aww man...i really suck". 

who cares? The guitarist and lead singer gets all the chicks most of the time...........

I recommend you to play some jazz bits like bossa nova and fusion. And try to listen to some pro drummers play, like Dave Weckl and Omar Hakim if you know them. Ah yes one more thing, try this site Drummerworld. Damn good site.

ice can,i've been playing drums around 2 years and ur 6 i salute you! double bass is easy but need lots of practice and few usefull tips

1:if ur tired carry ur legs up just play it and carry the back of ur leg for faster
2:left then right start <- start left leg then right
3:get a wooden beater if you wanna make it sound better

cheers

I like funk, but i think funk grooves are a bit too simple. Indeed, because there are all simple 8th and 16th only.

Beginners should stick to single padle first, and best recommended with legs heel up.

it depends what type of funk? Funk doesn't have to be simple. Shuffle things around and you don't have regular straight 16 beat anymore. 16 beat funk is the basic of funk. I have even seen people doing dotted note funk. Now that's is complex....

its sounds something like, 1+ e n a , 2 e n a, 3+ e n a, they're pretty much a straight up 16beat rhythm just that the parts are syncopated thats all. Add a shuffle to it and you get a pretty sick groove there.

i have a beatbox software on my com. And i just use the hi hat function to get the different beats. halfnote, quarternote, shuffled, triplets whatever... Although the samples are super shitty, it's good enough for practice.
Dunno if the same thing works for drums, but i know alot of practice routines that work for drums work for bass as well

i have a beatbox software on my com. And i just use the hi hat function to get the different beats. halfnote, quarternote, shuffled, triplets whatever... Although the samples are super shitty, it's good enough for practice.
Dunno if the same thing works for drums, but i know alot of practice routines that work for drums work for bass as well

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