In this second lesson Bruno adds two more excercises to the warm up, incorporating the bass drum.

How do you make your bass drum foot as flexible and fast as the hands ? By practicing the bass drum as hard as the hands, or by practicing the bass drum foot twice as hard as shown in the next illustration.

This exercise contains three rudiments: triple, double and single strokes alternated. Each stroke is filled in with one bass drum stroke.

1. Warm Up With The Bass Drum - Basic Exercise


2. 2. Separated exercises

Below you will find a sound sample of the exercise and you can download the sheet music for free as well. Click on the sample to listen it here in the web page. Next to that you find a downloadable pdf of the Bass drum warm up, as pubslished in \'Dia Meters\'.

Lesson 2: Warming up with the bass drum

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