Warm Up – Before starting a practice session or a show, make sure to warm up. Play some rudiments and work your way around the kit. If you are going to play a show, bring a practice pad with you to warm up on offstage. This will help you loosen up your arms and wrists and start the blood flowing in your limbs. When you start to play on your kit, you want to be as relaxed as possible. Any tension will make it more difficult to play and will tire you out faster.

Protect your Ears – Wear earplugs. As you most likely already know, drums are quite loud. It is important to protect your ears from the constant bombardment of loud noises.

Have Extra Drum Keys – Buy a couple extra and keep them in different places. Wear one on your neck on a piece of string. Keep one in your stick bag. You never know when you will need to do some adjustments on your kit. If you only have one key and you cant find it when needed, that can be a huge problem.

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