Buddy.... you are an inspiration. As a self-taught novice drummer as well, I love watching your transformation as the months progress. You can tell your timing is tight and your singles and more impressively your doubles sound balanced and even. I struggle with my doubles but I'm only a few months in. As long as you smile and enjoy the time spent during each session, that's all that truly matters. Bravo sir!
BEFORE YOU READ THIS COMMENT I AM NOT HATING ON JACK If you watch the drumming videos on my channel (I've been drumming around the same amount of time as @jackoliverdrums ) I skipped the rudiments and went straight teaching myself green day. I can fully play Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Whatsername, and probably Coming Clean, Welcome To Paradise, Cigarettes and Valentines (yes it exists) and Burnout once I get a little better on them. You can see all four of those in my "Drumming 6" video. Subscribe if you want I guess lol. (don't ask my age I'm keeping it private) again, not criticizing Jack here, just wanted to relate to skipping the rudiments. Lol.
First year drummer here, almost 2nd. Drumeo really efficiently sped up my technical journey with those courses and pack, but honestly practicing musicality is really important too. So now im learning jazz with the art of bop drumming book, getting that feel, and yeah i can say paid resources really help, especially if youre self teaching yourself and have no idea what to practice. I dont have a mentor to actively monitor my progress but drums just consumes a lot of time to practice, so having that long term thinking is important to not get demotivated. Watch drumming youtube videos, get some exercises or book for yourself, work on em, and repeat
Similar path for me. All I would say is play with more intent and get better gear if possible, those various kits sound bad and are letting you down. Just my view, excellent progress though, don't quit
Playing quietly as a consequence of having neighbors could prevent your language in loud dynamics from thriving, however, the importance of individual fluidity in a soft dynamic cannot be understated. There is bottomless nuance to be discovered in quiet dynamics. Drummers like Marcus Gilmore and Nate Smith are great examples of this. In short, utilizing the full dynamic range of any instrument pays dividends.
Great point. and 100%, Nate Smith is a genius. I should have said we should play dynamics purposefully and not just because the drums is a loud instrument.
@@jackoliverdrums He’s awesome right?! I totally get your point too; I just wanted to share my thoughts! Playing confidently out of love for the instrument versus playing tentatively out of fear of being heard is a knowledgeable perspective! Great job with the video! Keep it up :)
Learn and play too as many styles as poss. Also a guitarist of nearly 30 years, took up the sticks 18 months a go. Played before in 97 for about 3 months. Love it
i kind of disagree a bit on how playing quiet hinders your progress, yes playing quiet all the time will hinder a bit progress when it comes to heavy hitting songs, but what are you gonna do when you’re playing soft songs? also, it’ll be hard to play without getting fired at a restaurant or a mall, learning how to play quietly as well as when you’re playing loudly helps a lot :) also, just something i want to add, i have a little recommendation (obv might not work for everyone) set goals and learn very hard songs over the course of a few months as your main goal, try and choose a song that has techniques that you think you could probably achieve if you practiced within that time frame, for me, it’s heavily improved my skill, and coupled with a very good practice routine (just focus on fundamentals can be just 5 minutes each exercise, they’re boring but me practicing them has gotten me as good as people who have played for years, when in reality i’ve only played for one and a half years.) it works wonders. I also highly recommend grade songs, they range from Grade 1 - Grade 8, easiest to hardest, it can be trinity college, trinity rock and pop or rockschool, these songs focus on techniques and only aim to test your skills, find out what grade you are and start practicing from there :) I went from spending a good 4 months learn Smells Like Teen Spirit(Grade 6), to now spending 4 months trying to learn Couscous by Benny Greb (Grade 7) (this is coming from an intermediate drummer, so just take all of this with a grain of salt)
Yo! Thanks for the feedback. That's a good point about playing in a restaurant or mall - I didn't think of that - some places you perform will want you to 'play quiet'. I'll have a look at some more technical songs, I did try 'No One Knows' QOTSA but it was pretty challenging. Appreciate the pointers!
@@jackoliverdrums no one knows is pretty damn hard, it’s a very good practice for hertas and triplets, good job to you! I still trip up at that song most of the time also, fyi trinity pop and rock is obv for people who want to just do rock songs mostly, rockschool has more diversity and has rock, jazz, and even latin grade songs that are pretty tricky, trinity college however, is mostly jazz and latin, and is absolute insanity, at least to me it blows my damn mind. Also, i recommend trying out other genres, for me i’m currently branching out to jazz and latin songs for my main goal songs, and it’s been a real experience since I started off mainly rock songs, i also have minor goals, which usually consist of endurance based songs, they’re minor because they don’t test technical ability as much as endurance, a good example is Song for the Dead by QOTSA. (I don’t recommend putting songs that push beyond your physical ability in your main goals, like when you wanted to play american idiot when you started drums, i would much rather recommend putting in technical songs as main goals instead, as it’ll cover more variety of techniques, coordination stuff and etc)
Thanks! It's an Evans ARF-7GM RealFeel 7 inch. The 12 inch is better if you want to use a normal snare stand with it, but the 7 inch is great and more portable.
Well done. I'll add 1 thing I did that helped and 1 thing I know I should do that's slowing my growth a little. 👍I don't play very often without recording and it's true that usually when ya think you were killin it the playback says keep practicing 👎I should 'work' harder on stuff but I always end up just playing. All I wanna do is play. I have no goals attached, I just love drums.
I always find it interesting to see the progression of fluidity in movement as people progress. Beginners are just all arms and by the end you are pretty much using all wrist
i think that it's very convenient and portable and would be great for anyone who like to play drums anywhere, anytime. have a great day! i really enjoyed this video
this is actually impressive for just one year of playing. now you should get a better sounding kit or at least tune those toms and snar, and buy better cymbals, there are many products that are not that expensive ! ;)
I'm about 6 months into my journey and I have to admit I'm a bit envious of your progress! I feel like I should be further on than I am and I think the main reason is I've always neglected practising the rudiments in favour of learning songs that are slightly beyond my current ability. Do you have any recommendations for good videos for practising the rudiments?
So cool to hear you have started your drumming journey! Everybody progresses at different rates, I’m 33 and have been in bands (as a guitarist) for most of my life - so I think watching and learning other drummers was super helpful. Rudiments are a great way to improve your technique, I would highly suggest using a metronome and learning at least double stroke and single stroke roll exercises. But what you are doing with learning songs is great too! Just keep going and enjoying it :) Take a look at @AlejandroSifuentes videos he has a lot of rudiment practice routines and they are aimed at beginners too. But even just practicing to a metronome at 60bpm to start with, then get faster will work. Let me know how you get on dude
Very impressive for a year. Keep going and start to incorporate independence exercises (like playing a ride groove while keeping time using your left foot on the hi hat). Stay consistent and you’re gonna be great
Amazing dedication and progress for a year! Are you self-taught from scratch? Did you find songs to play that maybe you wouldn't ordinarily listen to but matched your skill level, or did you just learn to play songs that you like? I had my first ever drum lesson today, I've got a long way to go! :)
So glad to hear you are starting your drumming journey too. Best of luck and fun with it all! I am self taught but I now have a teacher in my second year. I love punk rock music, so naturally most of the songs were above my skill level so I tried to find the slowest and easiest songs on the albums. It really helped watching drum covers on YT and slowing them down to 0.75%
Damn, for someone learning for a year, your drum playing is actually pretty impressive especially the rudiments which most people when people start playing drums they skip over so good on you and keep going man 🙏🙌🙌👍🔥
Bullshit. Du hast 0 rebound auf einem kissen und speed und technik baut sich nur mit rebound auf. Das ist totaler quatsch und gefährliches halbwissen was du erzählst. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f4BV5_ADagE.htmlsi=rjmSxHOtGEUpCPzU hör dir an was dieser drummer dazu sag. Listen at min 14 it proofs that you are totally wrong
@@jackoliverdrums Well I'm trying with my phone. I'm trying to get a ton of subscribers but I'm stuck with my low quality phone so I'm doing what I can with what I have. I'm going to need to get a new phone. But my drumming is going great. Still learning really advanced stuff like Misery Business by Paramore and Smells like teen Spirit by Nirvana. But yeah it's going great
As a newbie drummer I look forward to following your journey and any hints and tips. I am lucky enough to have a drum teacher local to me so I have a lesson every fortnight. Slow and steady for me ha ha. Started Christmas Eve 2023.
Hey Emil. I used RU-vid for the first year (watching drum covers at 50% playback speed). But now I have a teacher and have a @DrumeoOfficial Subscription as well. I would highly recommend Drumeo, but there are loads of free lessons on YT to start with. Are you a drummer?
@@jackoliverdrums I’m just starting my journey, felt in love with it, found a teacher, but was wondering what’s the best way to practice at home apart from the one hour a week classes.
That’s so great! Glad you are enjoying it. Drumeo lessons are great if you have a drum kit or even just a practice pad. But the ‘rockshool’ grade 1 drum book is good to start learning notation as well!
Thanks for the video and keep going your progress give me inspiration, I just bought an electric drum to practice by myself and this information helps me a lot
Wow, Really cool! My favorite thing by far was seeing you loosen up your grip👊 Good progress, and here what I would recommend you: In some videos your elbows tend to stick outwards, which may feel natural, but not really good. So, just a reminder to make sure they’re not sticking out. Other than that, there’s not much I can say, you’re doing excellent! Learn some fills, rudiments, songs and just expand your «vocabulary».) Oh, and also I noticed a big change from the first videos where you moved your whole arm just to hit the drum to now having more of the wrist in the game. That’s really important too and I’m glad you got it! You can try implementing more fingers too. For me, it’s like second nature - I use a lot of wave type of arm/wrist movements (look up Moeller technique) combined with a lot of fingers. I also found for myself a more comfortable grip - middle finger fulcrum. There are a lot of drummers using this thing and I just wanted to try and now I’m stuck with it. So, congrats on your milestone of one year, you’re doing good! Have a great one🤜🤛
Thanks so much dude, really appreciate your advice. I'll definitely keep an eye on those elbows and will have a look at Moeller technique too. Thanks again!
I play guitar and Bass. I ordered the limited edition bliue ones, they'll be here tommorrow, thanks for the info and the review I am looking forward to hearing them and using them at a gig.
