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I Got Into A Heated Argument About 
Bruce Lee's One Inch Punch And How It Can Solve Your Double Bass Speed and 
Power Problems Once and For All...
Do you think I was right?
Back in 2001, I was giving a lesson to this very famous drummer. Before I even started the lesson he looked at my 
pedals and insisted that my beaters should be back at least 5 inches from the bass drum head in order for me to get more volume.

So I asked him if he was open to a little challenge. He said sure. Obviously he didn't know about Bruce Lee's One 
Inch Punch and how it relates to double bass drumming. 

So I asked him to hit 4 consecutive bass drum strikes with his right foot to see how loud they could be. I then proceeded with my four. When I was done he shook his head, glared at me and said, "wait that doesn't make sense. You played louder and look at your beaters.  You must have been born with different muscles than me." 

Now, that's where the argument started up. Since he didn't really want to learn how I got so much power he used 
the "excuse" that I was "born gifted." I gently told him that the "born gifted" line was an excuse to keep telling 
ourselves that we'll never be as good as we deserve to be. 

How many times have you heard that Michael Jordan was "born gifted" to play basketball. Or that Buddy Rich was 
just "born gifted" to play drums. People forget about the drive, self-discipline, and the friends that supported them. 

Anyways, I believe it's an excuse people use all the time when they can't play like their hero's. 

But, thanks to the Russians, I'm going to shatter this "born gifted" excuse once and for all.

You see, we're all born with a certain ratio of fast and slow twitch muscle fibers and this ratio can NOT be changed. 
Some people have more fast than slow, others more slow than fast.
 
Back in the 1960's the Russians figured that regardless of the ratio you were born with you CAN increase the size and 
density of either muscle fibers so you could still kick-butt. 

These were the same Russians who went on to set strength and speed records that made other countries look like pee wee herman. 

Of course, in the late 80's, American athletes finally stopped complaining about these so called "gifted" Russians 
and figured out their "secret" and used it to level the playing field. 

So no more excuses about being too short, tall, fat, uncoordinated, a slow learner, old, etc, etc. 

You gotta believe that you can always do better than you think you can... OK.

Let me get back on track with this volume and beater distance lesson.

So the distance the beater should be to the bass drum head is about 3 inches. Remember a drum can only be played 
so loud no matter how hard you try to strike it. 

Save your energy, generate the power from the knees down, make sure your seat height is about 2 inches above 
parallel (with ¼ piece of wood under back leg) and your beaters are only 3 inches away from the head.

Again, this is the foundation. I could go on to show you every "independence and speed trick in the world" but 
it would be useless if you don't have this as your solid foundation.

Ballistically Yours,

Joe "Ballistic" Stronsick

PS. Tomorrow's lesson is about smoking, getting more gigs, and how falling off a 14 foot roof and smashing your right 
foot (like Rod Price did) may be the answer to you being a monster player. See you tomorrow.

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