I often find time is Spanish class to work on some stuff. Right now I'm working on brushing up my rudiments and making them faster by just using my wrists. Also, I'll practice some exercises at really fast tempos to speed up my fingers for single strokes.

Me and a drummer friend of mine have the same algebra class. We have a teacher that accually lets us bring sticks and a pad so at the end of class when ever we have free time we drum. Most people think its cool but I think its annoyes a couple people but you know what, I dont CARE, Im A DRUMMER , I HAVE TO DRUM!

i'm always reading music in my downtime in class, and i always drum with my hands on tables or my thighs.

i always drum in school. when Im bored i sitm there and tap my fingers on my desk. one time my teacher got so pissed she gave a detention for 3pm till 5:15pm.

Yeah, you may want to watch that. I used to tap all the time. It tends to drive people nuts.

man.. I tap all the time and I can't help it... I'll just be sitting there and start to tap.... usually parts of the show or our cadence... my friends get really annoyed.

I think I may know why most of us percussion players tap so much!

It's muscle memory, I am thinking. If you think about it carefully, most of the time when drummers unconsciously start "tapping," as they say, the "tapper" is tapping a rhythm they know quite well: and what drumming comes down to is muslce memory, that's why we can play things from memory without the slightest thought after memorization, due to muscle memory! I've had the same problem.

(that sounded redundant, but there you go)

I was going to make a new thread about this, but that would be lame. I went about 3 days practicing with only my hands. Quality results, I tell you, at least for my matched grip that I am using more now.

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I always tap pencils and pens on my desk at school.That is why I always have two of the same pencil or pen.
But when I am at lunch i get out my practice pad.