Tommy Igoe: Great Hands For A Lifetime

Well, it's this or Jojo, isn't it? The Jojo option is best for the advanced drummer who wants or needs to get deeper and deeper into the possibilities of what can be done with a pair of hands and a couple of drum sticks. There's lots of jargon and slow-mo shots of the sticks flying out of Jojo's hands like Majick Johnson's basketball. Tommy, on the other hand (yes!) is going to cut through the fog and show us all a practical approach to hand technique that can be followed by those of us taking their first steps in the world of drumming as well as those advanced players among us who just want to make sure they keep their hands working efficiently and healthily. The Great Hands curriculum works towards the development of a rudimental warm-up routine. There are three, Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Tommy is great at explaining his approach to learning the basic rebound and accent strokes and explains each rudiment very clearly. We also get to see him working out with his students. I use this DVD with all my students and highly recommend it to anyone who wants a no-nonsense guide to hand technique. Once you get this down, get the Jojo one and freak yourself out.

This is definately recommended for every drummer that wants to build an enjoyable and effective routine for hand warmup. For me, this dvd achieves all of its aspects since it tells you what, explains you how and why. The presentation is rich and clear, including the mp3s and the pdf. Most importantly, this is not just "a good to have" material, it is a genuine joy to exercise and practice. I think that it maybe not of great use for those professional, accomplished drummers, capable of exercising rudiments with ease, grace and accuracy throughout a great range of speeds, reaching e.g. > 180 bpm at quarter notes. Those ones are definately to have long adopted their own warmup exercise routine.

It was a gift which was happily received. It could also be used in teaching drumming.

While I haven't been able to explore this video in depth, what I have seen is great. It is simply explained and easy to follow. Tommy shows you how to do it and then does the exercises with a group of drummers. Tommy also has an easy, laid back and amusing way of instructing which adds to the experience. If you are just beginning or want to expand your knowledge of the rudiments, I would recommend this.

Tommy Igoe is the best. Easy to understand and very practicle. I've amassed a number of these learnig DVDs and I keep going back to Tommy because of the mixture of visual instruction and notational help. If you are just starting or just started then this DVD and his other DVDs(groove essentials 1 & 2)are I think the only DVDs you need to get started and to realy progress.

This DVD by Tommy is top notch, whilst the rudiments are not as technical as some of the pipe band or American rudimental stuff I have learnt it is still worth every penny. This along with Jojo Mayers DVD is all you'll ever need in my opinion with regards to technique and application to rudiments (for drum kit/set anyway)

An amazing dvd that will help coach you to having great hands for life 👌

Amazing! Life time warm up is brilliant! I use this in group lessons really makes a difference Tommy igoe is the dog’s dangly bits ⚡️🥁⚡️

Als fortgeschrittener Hobby-Schlagzeuger (im Moment ohne Lehrer) war ich am typischen "Sackgassenpunkt" angekommen. Mit meinen eigenen Mitteln konnte ich beim Üben kaum eine merkbare Verbesserung erreichen und das Ganze gestaltete sich zunehmend als immer zäher. Bald war klar, dass ich grundlegend an meiner Technik arbeiten musste, um schneller, präziser, lockerer und kreativer werden zu können. Auf die Lehr-DVD von Tommy Igoe wurde ich in einem Schlagzeugerforum aufmerksam gemacht. Erste Testberichte haben mich neugierig gemacht, deswegen habe ich sie mir bestellt. Und wurde nicht enttäuscht. Englischkenntnisse vorausgesetzt, wird auf der DVD genau, humorvoll und mit dem nötigen Sachverstand die Grundlagen einer sinnvollen Stickhaltung, Rebound usw. erklärt, was man parallel zum Abspielen mitmachen kann. Igoe beharrt nicht stoisch auf einer bestimmten, "optimalen" Hand- oder Stickhaltung, sondern gibt Hinweise, wie man seine eigene, individuelle Technik optimieren muss, um sich zu verbessern. Nach ersten Vorübungen kann man auch gleich mit seiner Gruppe aus verschieden guten Schlagzeugern mittrommeln. Letztendlich behandelt Igoe nacheinander alle (und darüber hinaus noch weitere) Übungen, die dann in seinem Lifetime-Konzept auftauchen. Dieses Konzept beinhaltet verschiedene Kapitel wie "rebound", "rolls", "singles+doubles" usw., die nacheinander gespielt auch eine 5-Minuten-Einheit (als mp3 mit Klick auf der DVD enthalten) ergibt, mit der man sich aufwärmen kann. Außerdem erhält man die Lifetime-Übung als Plakat und in kleinerer Form zum Mitnehmen. Das Plakat hängt mittlerweile über dem Schreibtisch und in Lern-/Arbeitspausen kann geübt werden. Ich habe deutlich feststellen können, dass sich mein Schlagzeugspiel wirklich verändert und verbessert hat. Ich bin weniger verkrampft, präziser und viel schneller geworden. Von mir eine klare Kauf- und Übungsempfehlung!

I have been playing for a long time, and something has always been missing from my playing. Through the years different hand techniques and terms like Moeller were presented to me by my teachers, but I never fully incorporated them in my practice routine. I fiddled with rudiments and got a few of them to sound very good. My singles and doubles were pretty smooth, and my flams were fairly good. I could do a really great swiss army triplet. Yay. I wasn't really incorporating rudiments into my playing though, really breaking them up between the hands and feet. They really didn't all sounded right either, and I wasn't particularly 'loose' when I played them. I probably looked like an anxious frankenstein on some of them. In terms of the bigger picture, I was holding on too tight at least at times where I should have had 'soft' hands ALL THE TIME as Tommy talks about throughout the DVD. If you are a beginner, or someone who has been playing and you want to take your playing to a much more professional level buy this DVD. The information is presented in a simple and concise way. I was never in a drum core or really taught, so I developed my own style which worked pretty well. Until the advent of youtube though I wasn't able to look up videos to repeatedly hear how to play correctly what I had been doing wrong. The issue with youtube though is that it is spotty. Sometimes you find a good video, sometimes not so much. Not only does this video give show you how to make any pattern or rudiment sound even and 'correct', but there are exercises to play with a group of Tommy's students which is fun, a great work out and will expose your weaknesses and ceiling of speed and control. The video is really an encyclopedia of drum hand technique in one place by one true expert. This video is really an amazing set of lifetime lessons for about $30, the cost of about one real lesson. This could take I don't know, a YEAR at 30 minutes a lesson. I'm not sure how long, but a while. I have been using Jo Jo Mayer's Secret Weapons for the Modern Drummer for a while and it is a great DVD, but I'd absolutely recommend this as a companion. I'd also say to get this first. It has a simpler beginner friendly approach. Any serious drummer should have both though in my opinion. Jo Jo goes into some things that are extremely useful as well, and I think after going through Igoe's video you could move on to that and incorporate some things if you feel the need. I wish I had this video 20 years ago when I was in college. The good news is that if you are someone who has a lot of experience, this DVD can only boost your abilities and make everything you already did better. UPDATE: Work slowly through this DVD, and really get familiar with all the exercises, especially the beginning ones. Don't glaze over anything and really develop the fulcrum and soft, loose feel. Play with the group on the DVD and also alone with a metronome to chart progress. Also, on the DVD is the companion PDF. If you get serious about this DVD and improving your hands, read through the whole thing. What a great resource. What I love about it is that Tommy speaks to all drumming levels, and especially to that guy (me) who has been playing for years and wants to unlearn bad technique and actually correctly learn many of the rudiments and lifetime workout to blend it all into one full-on exercise incorporating everything on the DVD. Some who bought this have said Tommy Igoe talks too much, blah blah blah. I personally like his approach, but if it gets on your nerves there's this thing called fast forward. Also, the main menu really allows you to jump around to very specific sub-sections of the DVD to avoid wasting time. I think that for someone like myself there is a real fear of continued mediocrity with the hope that I will still achieve even a shadow of TI's drum ninja status. I am a drummer who has too often fallen into practice routines of playing familiar concepts without truly addressing my weaknesses. I am probably shortchanging myself to some degree, but you as a drummer know (or should know) your weaknesses and at least be able to visualize a clear path to the much higher level you want to achieve. I truly believe that anyone who works through the sections of this DVD (along with the pdf) and ultimately develops the lifetime warm-up to a high level will improve by leaps and bounds.

Enfin un vrai système de travail complet traitant de tous les aspects techniques, notamment des rudiments. Sans doute une voire la meilleure des méthodes, car Tommy Igoe propose une approche fraîche, efficace et pleine de bonne humeur d'un aspect souvent "maltraité"de la batterie. Je suis prof de batterie et je peux vous garantir que ça marche ! Alors à vos pads !

Ho seguito diversi metodi per batteria. Questo è quello a cui ogni neofita dovrebbe affidarsi senza pensare troppo al resto. Ha tutto per essere completo e ben strutturato. Tommy Igor è un grande didatta perché riesce a semplificare a parole concetti puramente pratici (es: l'individuazione del fulcro). Il suo metodo di apprendimento è progressivo e prevede sezioni puramente teoriche seguite da esercizi anche eseguiti in gruppo. Assolutamente consigliato.

me encanta, buen curso lastima que no exista opcion online y necesite un dvd 😅