Practice this technique 10-15 minutes a day. Don’t try that with the arm accent technique, as it will just slow you down. It’s a very efficient motion for single accents, but it’s not designed for 2 or more accents in a row. A mirror will reveal things about your motions and posture that you wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.Īnother important point is that this technique only works for single accents. It’s definitely beneficial to practice in front of a mirror. Then use that hand as a model for the other hand. Practice with your dominant hand first to really figure out how it’s supposed to feel. In the beginning, this drum technique feels very unnatural, at least it did for me. I’m a terrible baseball player, but some of my students who play baseball say that throwing a baseball is also a similar motion. Getting that whip to make a loud crack was a similar feeling or motion to this arm accent technique.Īnother thing that might help you is to think about throwing a baseball. I mention in the video that when I was a kid, I owned a bull whip that I brought back from a vacation to Mexico.
The elbow just moves out to prepare for the accent like a chicken wing. Notice that I really don’t lift my arm at all. When you start really working your speed up, you won’t hit the accents as hard. In the beginning, you want to smack the pad or drum pretty hard. Try to mimic the motions you see in the video. You will absolutely be able to play these patterns faster by adding the arm motion than you could using just your wrists, once you really master it. You’re going to use your arm for the accents, with a whipping type of action, which gives you more power. This will become very fast and powerful single strokes. You can also fill in between each note with the other hand once you’ve really mastered the technique. Later you can do the same with 16th notes. The best exercise for learning the arm accent technique in the beginning is to simply play triplets with each hand. Here’s a lesson and explanation on full strokes. Before practicing this arm accent technique, you really need to master full strokes, which will develop your wrists.
Joe’s method of teaching drum technique was to develop the wrists first, then the arms, and finally the fingers. This drum technique will enable you to play with more speed and power than if you use just your wrists and fingers.įor those of you who are not familiar with Joe Morello, this was a drummer who’s chops were on par with Buddy Rich. I never did get to study with Morello, but I did study with Dave Divis, one of his drum students.
In this online drum lesson, I’m going to explain Joe Morello’s arm accent technique.
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