The Secret To a Faster Kick Drum 

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Speed takes a long time to build up. Its important to work on control too hence the groupings exercices in this video (553)

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I haven't tbh. The old books I find very piece-meal in the way they teach. "Here's an exercise, Heres a very slight variation of it" continue for 100+ pages. I prefer concepts that I can create the variations of. I'm sure it's great but I've just never checked it out.

Great question. It wasnt the heel up that was causing the knee pain it was the tension from playing beyond my abilities. I was also unbalanced and doing twists of my knee which is not a good thing for your knee!! So i play heel up all the time when playing and even practicing not BD specific stuff. Heel down was just to isolate, strengthen and build control in the ankle.

@@DaveMajor thank U sir for your reply. I applied this technique in my left foot specifically. I play a lot of double bass things ........but my left foot had the same problems as your right foot. So I used the heels down method to train my left foot ........ just as an experiment........cuz I was sick and tired of my left foot's weakness. But lo and behold........heels down training on my left foot actually made it stronger for when I go back to heels up on a double pedal. Thank you so much for this mate

Not any difference really. I play in DC skate shoes or trainers because thats whats comfy but if required ill play gigs in dress shoes. I guess as long as the ankle can freely move you'll be fine

I think for more extreme tempos you probably need the Tricks or something. 9000s are great but I think for most styles you should try and be comfortable on any pedal.

@@DaveMajor i have the same opinion, not the pedal makes the drummer but the straight opposite, thanks

After a while my heel down couldnt go faster. When you play heel down you really rely on the ankle but the muscles/tendons are compressed slightly (how it feels to me at least) but then when playing heel up they release and I can get faster. I practiced heel down not to use it exclusively but to isolate and strengthen the ankle so when playing heel up it was faster. It worked