[ChaoTime]

Originally Posted by AdamW

the tricky thing about the patterns in the songs you mention is that they're, for lack of the correct musical term, 'backwards' - the snare and bass are reversed from how you'd naturally expect them to be (think about, oh, Dragon Blade). so you sort of get out of rhythm while playing because your brain is tending back to the more 'natural' pattern. that's what happens for me, anyway.

the only solution is practice. except for revolution, which I finally passed by just hitting the fucking snare, bass AND hi-hat on every beat during the ending. I hate that song. and practice on the slower ones until you can get them consistently, there's no point bothering with FSW or revolution or TTFAF until you're nailing the slower ones perfectly.

Ehh, it's not essentially the bass or anything, it's just my right hand on hi-hat. I kinda need a way to bounce the stick efficiently or some other technique so my arm doesn't die. I mean, I've seen real drummers do fast stuff like that with one hand. What do they do? Cause I kinda need to learn that at some point.

Originally Posted by paskok2r

in my case it's my left hand on snare that fucks everything up, any way to train my left arm?

What I've tried recently is to put the palm of my hand facing down as opposed to having my hand in a sort of thumbs-up position. Then you try to push back the loose stick with your last fingers at each bounce, though you could try without that. It's basically what is shown in the video I linked to up top. It -kinda- works. I originally tried this for the purpose of easy drumrolls across the kit, but I guess it works with the snare.