New Snare Drum Exercise - The Countdown Part 1

It's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1. What's up everybody and welcome to drumming with Mr. Riles or rudiments with Riles. I don't forgot what I called in the last video but anyway today is a new video. Today I'm going to teach you a warm up called the countdown and if you can count to eight you can play this warm up. Simple let's count to eight. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. And then count to seven. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Six, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And then count to five. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Four, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. One, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2 and then count to one. If you can count like that then you can play it. If you can't count like that then you can't play it. Countdown, what does it mean to count down? Countdown, we're going to start from eight and we're going to end up at one. All right, so most warm-ups are made for us to warm up our hands, warm up our feet, you know, just to get in unison and playing with everybody. But this warm-up here is not only just for that, but it's also to warm up our what? Our mind. M-I-N-D is a terrible thing to waste. All right, so let's just go ahead and get to it. Pretty simple. Count to eight. We're going to do eight on the right hand. All right? Full out. No accents. Just full out. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. See? Again, just count to eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Easy. One, two, three, four, five, six. Simple. Now count to five. One, two, three, four, five. It's easy so far, right? Now, count to four. You can count to four, right? One, two, three, four. Now count to three. Count to two. One, two. And finally, count to one. One, two. 1, 1, 1. Alright, now, the thing about it is, now we're going to play that whole warm up counting down on the right hand with no pauses, alright? Let's go from 8 to 4 and stop at 4. Here we go. 1, 2, ready, and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. That's all you got. I ran out of breath. I'm old, but you're young. You can count. Here we go. Let's do it again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. Simple. Now, let's go from 4 to 1. 4 to 1. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 1. No pauses in between. It's continuous. No pauses in between. Countdown. Ready, and 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 1. Again, and 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 1. Last time, and 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 1. If you can do that, then you can play this whole warm-up. All right? Do the same thing for your left hand. All right? From 4 to 1, or from 8 to 5. 8 to 4. I done forgot what I did, but let's just do 8 to 4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. All right? You got it? Left hand again. I know a lot of us, we scared of the left hand, but don't be scared of the left hand. Don't run. Come back. Don't run. Come back. It's just the left hand. Don't run. Thank you for coming back. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. All right? See, that was easy, man. That was easy. See, you made it harder than what it was. All right, so let's go from 4 to 1. 4 to 1. 4. Oh, my bad. My bad. 1, 2, ready, and 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 1. That's right. I think I did it right. So, that's the whole warm-up. Now, here comes the tricky part. You knew it had to be a trick. So, for the tricky part, I got to put on my hood. Hoodie Riles for the tricky part. All right. Cue the theme music. I'm back. Hoodie Riles for the tricky part. All right, here we go. Make sure y'all can see my hair. All right, now we're counting to, from 8 to 1 again. Let's show how to put it together. Here we go. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. My left hand look bad. 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 1. Hard. That left hand is hard, man. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 1. 1, 2. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8.