Moving on from Melodics or other strategies.

As always, apologies for asking potentially dumb questions. And thank you all for being awesome people.. so I’ve been using Melodics since I started learning drums about a year and a half ago. I feel like it’s just teaching me to be good at melodics. For example, if I use another tool (ticking) to test my timekeeping on my practice pad, I’m all over the place. Let alone try to groove along to a song. Does anyone have suggestions for mixing in other practice methodologies to wean me off Melodics.