A friend from Brussels gave me this idea and I've been trying it out for a week now. I bought myself 1/2kg (1 lb) weights for wrists. While my friend says it helps to increase speed and sound strength (which I lost in the 6 months), I've noticed it helps to maintain balance and makes you play with more ease - less tension and twitching. Well, no progress in speed so far:) but let's wait and see...
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Speed exercise
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i'm trying that but i can't play basses because i hit the skin with the weights
Andrej, this is an excellent idea!
Some time ago, I had seen "finger weights" for guitar, piano, sax… players. I had spent a few seconds thinking – "What use can it be for djembefola?" and my conclusion was – "None! I need my fingers for striking the skin and I don't want to damage it". It never occurred to me that there are also "wrist weights", "ankle weights"…
Now, you have reminded me how sometimes I just can't see the obvious!
Bamboo, it might be. Anyway, I guess you can use the weights only for practicing speed, meaning that you don't need to hit basses heavily. By the way, what kind of weights do you have? Mine are from some synthetic material that doesn't damage the skin.
Hi Julio! In fact the idea didn't grow in my mind either:)
Maybe one other advice: get some weights that are adjustable in size and not the ones in the picture. The smaller - the better. I guess that even a quarter of a kilo would do.
i vas seriusly thinking about this
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0108782/c_1/1|cat_10199392|Home+gym+equipment|10199523/Trail/searchtext%3EGLOVES.htm
but 0,5 kg seems to be too much. but idea is perfect, it not covers the fingers so you can product the sounds, and you have free wrist. as i read in comments of this product:
"weights are removable" - maybe it's possible to change this weights to lighter
my friend was trtainning with home made gloves and told me that it helped him increase speed but he couldn't practise sounds with this.
An interesting idea. Any news on your results?
I feel like speed is more important than strength.
Speed comes from smaller muscles, where as strength comes from bigger muscles. I worry you maybe working the wrong muscles.
Having said that Im sure it wont to you any harm.
I do feel like a better approach is to work on speed though.
Im interested to hear the results....any news?
Hi. No, actually no, I didn't get some good results out of it. The problem is that this kind of bracelets are not totally fixed and when you play fast it starts hurting a bit. It might depend on the product, tho. Also, you really need a bullet-proof mindset to be able to play for hours and hours in the basement with this things on your hands:)
And in the end, I guess James is right - it develops more power than speed.
After years of trying to find out how to increase speed, I found that the best way is just playing accompaniment at dance classes. Something like the a fast Kuku (TT.STTS.) for 30 minutes is better than going to the gym for one week:)
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