Drumolator
Platinum Member
I play twice a week at church, and I go into a tom rhythm thing whenever I am inspired to do so. The rest of the musicians and singers seem to like it. Peace and goodwill.
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Watching other drummers succeed in that particular area...gives you a great opportunity to follow their lead. Perhaps you should observe the holy crap out of them and reverse engineer what they are doing so you can understand better for yourself. Just steal their stuff, everyone does it.
Better yet, go up to them, compliment them, and ask specifics.
I still kinda suck at these but I thought I'd add something else - playing between the right hand and right foot on the floor tom seems to have opened doors for me.
I just started working on this myself. It's like a new tool to use. Hasn't entered my gigging playing yet, it's not internalized enough yet. But I'm having a fun time with it.