Killer warm up exercise for drummers - advanced! by Asaf Sirkis (tutorial Part 1 of 3)

London based drummer Asaf Sirkis shares a warm up exercise for drummers. This exercise is based on the Joe Morello 'Killer Exercise'. It also uses some Konnakol (the south Indian vocal percussion system) principals such as metric modulation. Thanks for looking, enjoy!
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Asaf is currently touring extensively with his Trio and with his 'Inner Noise' band, and is gaining in reputation as a composer and band leader.

Asaf is also working with the Larry Coryell's 'Power Trio' (featuring Larry Coryell on Guitar and Jeff Berlin on Bass), Nicolas Meier Group, a group that combines Jazz with Middle Eastern music (albums available: 'Ribbon In The Wind', 'Orient', 'Yuz', 'Journey' and 'Silence Talks'), and with John Law's Art Of Sound trio as well as working with other artists such as: Chick Corea, Mark Egan, Dave Liebman, David Binney, Gary Husband, John Taylor, Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Gwilym Simcock, Andy Sheppard, Lenny Stern, Paul Bollenback (NY), Julian Siegel, Dan Stern, Peter King, Stan Sulzman, Barbaros Erkose (Turkey), Ari Brown (Chicago), Bela Szakcsi-Lokatos (Hungary), Glauco Venier (Italy), Yuri Goloubev (Russia), Klaus Gesing (Austria), Eyal Maoz (NY), Carlos Barretto (Portugal), Simon Fisher Turner, Phil Robson, Martin Speake,  Mark Latimer, Reem Kelani, Christine Tobin, Tom Arthurs, John Etherigde and more.

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[srotem1]

cool, ive been doing these moeller killers for a while now so this should be a good way to spice things up.... it also made think i should this with the 1st page of stick control for a warmup. thnx

[AsafSirkis]

@srotem1

Yes, spice it up with some Indian style rhythm manipulations! You can transpose everything you do to any sub division! it makes it interesting and challenging. Good luck

[stevemo1967]

Sounding good, the Stone Killer always gets ya workin!

[bskkid4eva]

this exercise is good for all instruments, thanks Asaf