All your lessons are great but this one is especially so. I love the analogy and, you are right, we should aim to be freely drumming as if it were a conversation in tune with other musicians around us. Thanks for the direction and inspiration. Peter (One ageing rocker)
Just get a double bass pedal and do quick doubles, and single or doubles with your hands, you'll be able to do so easy and fast that it will sound like a machine gun.👍
Unreal! Cannot wait to practice this and show it to all of my students. Amazing content, I loved your honesty as an educator and the clarity of everything from your script to how this is shot and paced. Excited to see more 🤙🏼
By far the most helpful thing for me that addressed a lot of this was going through Gary Chaffee's Sticking Patterns book. Once you internalize how the A, B , C stickings feel in 4/4 it really frees you up and gets your flow happening. Many of those 5 and 7 note groupings come out naturally. You don't think about them, they just happen.
I watched quite a few of your videos I’ll have to say that’s your best one ! Honestly as a teacher also I spend time looking to challenge students with concepts not just pre set licks as well as myself a life long student also I find it way more beneficial to learn concepts to then improvise at various tempos and subdivision as you’ve demonstrated here . Get that mileage 👍
I just started drumming self-taught over the last few months, something that helped me was taping masking tape near the top of my left stick to give it a bit more weight because my left hand felt oblivious to the stick, unlike my right which has full consciousness of it because it's my naturally dominant hand. Also using left for hi-hat to make sure it's getting a lot more practice, which also gives a right hand the tricky job of doing snare patterns while keeping rhythm on the left which is going to further help me down the line
This video put me onto the Sonor Kompressors. I ended up buying this exact snare and an SQ1 shell kit. Man, I make horrible financial decisions but Sonor makes such good drums lol
One thing I've noticed is that you always start with the hand. I feel like practicing it starting with the foot like FHFH... would probably be good too
I did that as well but given the majority of the time it's the hands that lead it and also it keeps the lick on the downbeat I only demonstrated it one way. Like I said in the video, I've been working on this a long time so have done pretty much every variation and exercise possible. If I included them all then the video would be about 5 hours long! Thanks for watching
Yeah, but you need your volume dynamics the same. If you don't put more pressure in your kick drum, it makes you sound heavy handed, and gives the lick instability and dynamics make all your notes the same volume.
“Left hand lead is a bit too hard…!” Been there. I set my drums up left and taught myself to play left for 6 weeks straight, and when I went back to right, my chops were so much tighter because my dominant hand was now almost perfectly balanced with my left.
Some players call these hand foot singles blast beats. 😂 Charlie Benante belted out these notes at various speeds back in the 80s. On another note, Bill Bruford used his hats in place of the bass. All cool stuff.
Yeah, another commenter said the same thing re. blast beat. When I think of a blast beat I don't think of what the players in the intro played but it's all singles in various guises!
Technically it’s called a blast beat you can play it as quarter notes, 8th notes, 16th notes and 32nd notes singles you can also play it as triplet feel with quarter note ride while the bass & and snare play the triplet
@@DaveMajor The riding normally just matches the quarters, 8th etc notes of the bass drum the definition of blast beat is 8th note single strokes played at 120 bpms or over which came from jazz drummers a lot times in jazz they may very what the riding hand does the blast beat is between the bass and snare a blast beat isn’t defined by any specific drums and yes metal has taken blast beats even what your talking about is still considered a blast beat
I've been playing for 30 odd years and I've never really played hand foot singles, except for one of my fav licks which is played as a split triplet with the first partial on a hand ( usually floor tom), followed by the 2nd and third partials on the bass drum. Basically splitting the triplet up and orchestrating it. That split between the bass drum and floor tom makes a nice choppy foundation to play over and once you lock it in, it is pretty brainless.
Just want to put a spanner in the works! Start the fill with the bass drum foot. The bass drum is probably a little more used to playing the "down beat" therefore would make it easier to start with. And, it's another orchestration!!
Yeah the inversion is a killer. Ive worked on that aswell. I dont really like the sound as the hands to me lead this phrase. But as I said in the video, going deep with something means having full control so defo practice kick lead
@@DaveMajor I find the worst is inverting and leading with my non dominant hand, and forcing me to play with my feet and playing left bass drum instead. I try and move everything I do one way, the other. It has led to me focusing a bit more on open handed playing and not using traditional ' natural sticking' where all your 'on' beats are on the right and all the off beats on the left. Just switching those up is like a whole new world of stuff to practice. Thanks for the Vid!
