Drum Beats for Training
Introducing Drum Beats for Training with Indian Clubs, Gada (mace) and Persian Meels.
This video is designed to explain how to use the Drumbeats Album.
I also cover some historical background.
Purchase the Album
- You can purchase the album through iTunes, Spotify and Amazon.
- Drum Beats for Training with Indian Clubs, Gada (mace) and Persian Meels
Link: https://paultaraswolkowinski.hearnow.com/
Rhythm and beat
Rhythm and beat are essential to swing Indian Clubs, Gada Mace, Persian Meels and the Jori. As a discipline, drumming concentrates on training the body to punctuate, conveying rhythm, timing your movements to become more efficient.
Keeping time with the beat during longer sets is challenging, but also gives you a sense of achievement as fatigue sets in.
All these drum tracks are specifically designed for club and mace swinging. Each track is 10 minutes long. The track speeds start at 45 bpm, 55 bpm, 56 bpm, 57 bpm, 58 bpm, 59 bpm, and 60 bpm.
How to Start
One of the best ways to start is to select a track at 45 bpm or 55 bpm and simply swing a pair of light clubs in a pendulum format across the body to get a feeling for the beat. Then as you build up your confidence you can try to swing some circles and combinations expanding your physical and mental gymnastics.
As time goes on you will master the 55bpm track speed and then you can try 56bpm, building up slowly over a period of time up to 60 beats a minute.
Rule of Thumb
You will progress faster using lighter weights, and you will find that heavier weights will slow you down, but they can still be swung to the beat of the drum.
Selecting BPM
You have to make sure that you choose the right clubs to match the speed (bpm). If you find that you can’t keep up with the track you should select a lighter pair of clubs or a slower track.
Track Names
There are six tracks for the Gada (mace). Eight tracks for Indian Clubs and six tracks for Persian Meels.
I have named these tracks according to my favoured disciplines, but I will often use a Gada (mace) track for Meels and Indian Clubs, for example, so feel free to mix and match, the choice is yours.
Enjoy swinging to Drum Beats
I hope you enjoy training to the sound of drums as much as I do.
List of track names and numbers
- Gada (mace) 55 Stop ‘n’ Start
- Gada (mace) 56 Bull Horns
- Gada (mace) 57 Pendulum
- Gada (mace) 58 Honour
- Gada (mace) 59 Non-Stop
- Gada (mace) 60 Push ‘n’ Pull
- Indian Clubs 45 Slow Swing
- Indian Clubs 55 Windmills
- Indian Clubs 56 Sunrise
- Indian Clubs 57 Hammer
- Indian Clubs 58 Sabre
- Indian Clubs 59 Ring
- Indian Clubs 60 Snakes
- Indian Clubs 60 Sunset
- Persian Meels 55 Pahlavan
- Persian Meels 56 Shena
- Persian Meels 57 Gowd
- Persian Meels 58 Cyrus
- Persian Meels 59 Tireless
- Persian Meels 60 Zarb
Thanks for posting such informative videos. I practice gada and the like since about 3 years now coming back slowly from a pittyfull condition.
It is now a very important part of my life and I owe it to you.
Thanks a zillion time.
Denis Babary
Hi Denis, Thank you for your email and feedback, I am very happy to hear that you have progressed in learning and using the gada, keep it up. Best Regards. Paul
Purchesed it November 26 and used it for Gada swings ever since. I am transitaioning to a 5.5kg cement Gada from the 2.5kg plate Gada I used the learn the basis. While I prefer to ptactice in silence the drum beat helps to keep me from rushing the swings, this lead to a better quality session.
Thanks Paul, for the beats and for all the wealth of knowledge you share
Thank you very much for your feedback, I am very happy to hear that you are using my drum beats
I wanted an easy way to get the BPM for the songs, so I just made a bunch of playlists on Spotify and made the playlists public. I think they are accessible by searching for the BPM. I just did this, so I suspect it may take a while before they show up in the search results.