I know one guy who can play all of the rudiments on a pad with the max speed on the metronome which is fcking crazy if you ask me.. he plays for drumline though so i guess that sorta thing is necessary. How fast do you guys play rudiments? I'm trying to judge what's a "normal" speed. plus playing rudiments on the set would prolly be different than on a pad.. l8ers

DEFINITELY dont max out the metronome. That is FREAKING fast

[full metal]

well I not sure what normal speed would be but I finally sat down with my metronome about a month aggo to see where I was standing on my rudiments and I found out somthing weired.
some of them like flam taps and accents and parradiddles I could play at like 180 but when I slowed it down I couldnt hardly play them at all untill I got down to like 120.

I think I kinda of screwed myself up by always trying to do them fast and clean but never worked on them at normal speeds and now I have to go back and in a way start over again practicing them at normal playing speeds.

just because you freind can play them fast and clean dosnt mean that he could play them at like a 130-160 range kinda like me.

as drummers we always seem to think that speed is one of our key things to work on but a lot of us forget that not all music is set at 210 and it is not helping us in the long run.

one of the best things I can tell you to work on is things like parradiddles working each hand on a diffrent drum.
somthing I have been working on latly is playing flam taps but doing with the snare and the toms so that part of the flam is on 2 diffrent drums and it starting to sound really cool.

good post full metal, rep for you

[Coach McGuirk]

Originally Posted by Travisfan

I'm trying to judge what's a "normal" speed. plus playing rudiments on the set would prolly be different than on a pad.. l8ers

There is no normal speed. Let the music that you play be your guide. If on the fastest tune that you play you hear a paradiddle fill but can't execute it cleanly then you need to spend some more time in the woodshed.

These sort of threads about how fast is fast enough remind me of The Karate Kid.

Karate Kid: You think you could break a log like that?
Mr Miyagi: Don't know. Never been attacked by a tree.

Worrrying about your technical abilities outside of a musical context is kind of like wondering if you can (or should be able to) chop a log in half with your bare hands. Let musicial problems guide your technical development.

[Incredible Feet]

He should try it for one minute on the Drumometer. It sounds like he should enter a WFD contest.

[DRUMMER111]

no no no think about dude


he can do em at the max which is about 250 on a metronome but dude a metronome has no max because i have seen one go to like 500 bpm so a metronome can be infinite dude think about also

at some point would i not start sounding like single strokes with accents?

also it doest matter how fast you can play it. what matters is that you can play clean and with technique

well i dont think it's infinite because if it's so fast that the clicks become indistinguishable it's impossible to play with it. the max is when the metronome gives off a single ongoing beep. I dont know what bpm it's at but anything past 250 would be almost impossible to play with i think