NYC drummer/instructor Igoe returns to the basics with an ingenious rudimental workout, the Lifetime Warm-Up, designed by his father, drumming great Sonny Igoe. Tommy simplifies and demystifies stick technique, keeping it from becoming daunting and technically confusing. His mantra for relaxed sticking is “Air in the back, sound in the front.”
Viewers will need a previous understanding of rhythmic notation and music terminology. The DVD begins with Igoe discussing fulcrum/grip and performing examples of accents, which leads into the basic rudiments. He gathers students at various playing levels to help perform the program as they work their way through the rudiments and into increasing levels of the warm-up.
Affordably priced and includ- ing an e-book, MP3s, a poster, and a chart, this progressive program is an outstanding teaching aid and hand-maintenance warm-up for drummers of all abilities. [Hudson]
Tommy is one of the best educators out there and his approach to technique is just great. Easy to understand and without fancy namedropping, this is a very hands on dvd that is useful to both beginners and professionals. I personally use the Lifetime Warmup every day in my warmup routine.
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Top class drum dvd
Anonymous 11.01.2017
This one of the top 10 instructional dvd's for a drummer out there. A guide to build excellent hand technique.
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Great Hands for a Lifetime
Jonas P. 26.04.2010
Ich habe mir diese DVD bestellt, weil ich gerne Traditional Grip spielen lernen würde und ich muss sagen, dass sich die Anschaffung echt gelohnt hat. Tommy Igoe Technik zum Schlagzeugspielen echt anschaulich. Seine Trommelgruppe aus verschiedenen Fähigkeitsleveln ist außerdem auch noch wirklich hilfreich , um das spielen zu erlernen. Ich bin zwar kein Anfänger mehr und habe auch schon diverse größere Konzerte gespielt [10 Jahre Erfahrung] trotzdem muss ich sagen, dass mich die DVD in allen Richtlinien begeistert hat und ich auch definitv noch einen Schritt vorran gemacht habe.
Ich kann die DVD jedem der seine Technik und somit auch sein Spielen verbessern möchte diese DVD nur wärmstens ans Herz legen. Gerade auch für Anfänger bietet diese DVD einen guten Einstieg.
Tommy Igoe's NEW DVD Great Hands for a Lifetime is a no-nonsense guide to hand technique, using the best-selling Groove Essentials™ approach to achieving incredible results that last a lifetime!
Great Hands For A Lifetime offers a realistic, practical approach that will unlock your potential and protect your hands through years of drumming. Developed to improve the strength, speed, stamina, comfort and control of every drummer, the 4-hour DVD features:
• Complete explanations of topics such as Matched and Traditional Grip, Fulcrum Concepts, Rebound Strokes, Accents, Singles and Doubles, Check Patterns, The Five Families of Rudiments and more.
• Group Demonstrations featuring real students performing all the included exercise routines.
• Wall-sized poster and compact fold-out guide [courtesy of Evans® Drumheads], plus an extensive eBook with extra information.
Good technique requires maintenance! The Lifetime Warmup™ is how it's done. This incredible workout weaves the standard drum rudiments with original exercises and includes three challenging levels to create an ingenious routine that will challenge any level of player.
Also included: iPod compatible Lifetime Warmup™ MP3s—so you can bring the workout with you anywhere you practice.
This DVD would be a very dry affair if it wasn’t for Tommy Igoe’s infectious positivity and genuine zeal for sharing his knowledge and experience. But as Igoe himself asks, why do we need yet another technique DVD? Well, I suggest you watch Great Hands… to find your answer.
After introducing some basic strokes with emphasis on a healthy fulcrum and a relaxed grip [matched and traditional], Igoe methodically takes us through the five groups of rudiments – ruffs, rolls, paradiddles, drags, flams – with adaptations, hybrids and combinations of each. The staggeringly high tempos to which he takes those exercises can be daunting, but do demonstrate their potential well. After each section, Tommy and his students sit together and play the exercises at varying tempos.
Igoe doesn’t spend too much time on the ‘baby steps’ as he calls them, rather assuming a degree of knowledge of the rudiments. What all this leads to is the three-tier ‘Lifetime Warm-up,’ originally conceived by Tommy’s father, Sonny Igoe.
The warm-up revolves around a poster [included] or ‘treasure map of rudiments’ containing all the exercises Tommy has dissected throughout the DVD, and can be played at basic, intermediate or advanced levels as a practice regime or challenging task to enhance your vocabulary and accuracy on the drum kit – a kind of ‘Rudimental Ritual’ for the modern drummer. The DVD also includes MP3s to guide you through each version of the warm-up. This DVD could prove to be an invaluable tool for beginners and serious drummers alike. SP
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