How To Get Lightning Fast Single Strokes in 2025

In this video, I tackle the 3 key concepts in developing your Single Stroke Speed. Master these through this guided hand workout and you WILL develop insanely fast single strokes. It is guaranteed. What do you need? You need a long enough time horizon, a hefty dosage of determination, and to truly commit this to yourself. If you follow these steps, you will have incredible hands by this time next year. It is already written. Now, then, it's for you to put in some hours and dedicate yourself to this. LET'S GO!!

This is actually super fun and by going through these exercises, you'll start to uncover the little tricks that your body needs to do to generate lightning fast hands on the drums. Enjoy the journey, it is yours.

Much Drum Love,
Ferg

Chapters:
0:00 Cheesy Intro
1:37 The Blueprint for Improvement
3:13 Exercise 1
3:47 Exercise 1 - 110BPM
4:18 Grip
5:26 Exercise 1 - 140 BPM
5:41 Exercise 1 - 170 BPM
6:06 Exercise 1 - 200 BPM
6:39 Exercise 2
9:02 Exercise 2 - 110 BPM
9:22 Exercise 2 - 140 BPM
9:38 Exercise 2 - 170 BPM
10:03 Exercise 2 - 200 BPM
10:34 Exercise 3
11:40 Exercise 3 - 110 BPM
11:59 Exercise 3 - 140 BPM
12:22 Exercise 3 - 170 BPM
12:52 Exercise 3 - 200 BPM
13:22 Recap

Download the Sheet Music Here:
No sheet music today as it's listed in the video and this stuff is slightly more conceptual :)

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Equipment:
TAMA STAR MAPLE 22x16, 10x7, 12x8, 16x16 Raspberry Curly Maple
Tama Starphonic Aluminium 14x6
Meinl Sand Hats 14"
Meinl Vintage Dual Splash 10"
Meinl Extra Dry Thin Crash 18"
Meinl Smack Stack 10", 12", 14"
Meinl Vintage Pure Ride 22"
Meinl Polyphonic Crash 20"
Meinl Sand Crash Ride 22" (Rivets Removed)

Mics:
Aston Spirit x2 - Overheads
Beyerdynamic M201 - Snare
Audix D2 - Rack
Audix D2 - Tom 2
Audix D4 - Floor
Shure Beta 52A - Kick
Shure SM57 - Front Kick
Shure SM7B - Vox

Interface:
Focusrite 18i20

DAW:
Presonus Studio One

Video Software:
DaVinci Resolve

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