Drum teacher Boyd Hayward teaches hand control for flams, unisons, and single-stroke rolls while bungee jumping 150 metres above a New Zealand canyon. The routine starts with a left-hand flam, moves through unisons and a right-hand flam, then finishes with single-stroke rolls.
Hey guys, Boyd Hayward. You may ask why I'm giving a video drum lesson 150-odd metres above a big canyon in New Zealand. The reason is obviously I'm a drum teacher and I want to share some information with you. Secondly, if I think too much about what I'm about to do, I probably won't do it. So just a quick idea that you can use, I've used in my practice, is basically— we've got an audience as well— basically what we're trying to do is make sure that the hands, whether they're flaming or doing unisons or the single throw rolls, are in control. So what we can do is to play all 3 of these in sequence. So we start off with a left hand flam, then into unisons, then into a right hand flam, and then into single throw rolls. So what we're doing there, basically, we really make sure that we know each movement because you have to make subtle adjustments to produce each one of the strokes. Um, I'm not playing it particularly quickly because I'm a little bit nervous, but I'll do another video update soon. I've got to go, I've got to go and jump off a shopping cart that's hanging in the sky. So all the best, don't look down, and I'll see you next time.
Cheers. These are my famous last words. So remember, kids, practice hard, do your paradiddles.
And I'll see you tonight. Bye.
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