Thanks for this!!! I've been playing for almost 40 years and I gig regularly, but I still find myself falling into the same ruts with these endings. I've never been very comfortable with them. This helped a lot!
Literally nobody teaches this for some reason, yet, you literally need it every single time you go on stage. Thanks Mike, great idea and very usable patterns!
Been watching your videos for years. As a music teacher myself now, you have taught me how to teach! Love your lesson ideas, and execution/personality 🙏🏻🎉
I’ve experienced nailing a song on stage, only to end with a …meh… kinda trashcan crappy ending and felt like it even ruined the entire song. All three of these are great! Very helpful. Thank you.
Love the Mozart comment. Mike, you keep my 30 plus years from becoming jaded. I love your presentation and humour and your general bro’ ness. And all of your lessons are very fresh considering I’ve generally seen it all before. But you spin it a way that’s more fun. Thank you. I hope to meet you again one day. (Southampton was good) maybe a camp visit when time allows. 🙏
The audience typically does not remember the beginning of a song, they remember how it ended. LOL This is must learn stuff for the gigging drummer. I've heard many great songs turn to crap due to a loose ending as well as doing it myself! Great call out on this one Mike!
As always the best content Mike Johnston! Signed back up this weekend looking forward to jumping back in to the courses, lessons, homework, and sheds! Also joined the Patreon Group for DRUM with Mike & Eddy love the podcast as well listen every Monday! Thanks for everything you do for us Mike always appreciated. 🥁🍵🙏
Try Deep Purple Hey Cisco...that Is a fantastic ending...so Is the Battle rages on and lady double dealer...or Hurricane live with Gary Moore, Just awesome... listen them... Ian Paice Is on fire on those.
Thank you for this lesson. I feel like you were speaking directly to me. lol I love that you address the sillyness of recording yourself alone in the room. People tell me to look "like i'm having fun" in my videos, but I'm literally playing to no one in the room. lol. Ahyhoo, I'm stealing/working on the second exercise. I've heard so many people pull off that lick successfully, and it always sounds "badass". (sorry for the Cobra Kai reference) Love your content.
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I hear all of these live and have been dying to learn them. You even unintentionally taught the one where you hit your floor Tom twice and then the bass once at 0:15 and more, so thanks for that! Also 100th comment!
Ive been there kinda like a deer in headlights when i got invited to a jazz jam session got on the drums (after not playing for a year) then as the song started to end and other guys started to look at me. I realized holy moly i need to end the song with something and made some wacky stuff up because i had no idea what to do especially with jazz. But next time ill make sure to be more prepared lol
"Uuum every single rock ending!" I almost fell off my chair. rofl. Im simple. Got me again with stick point in 2nd close. Heck. I might just be in a good mood. Drumming changes a man.
Thanks Mike- I never really put much thought into these, I usually end up doing some sort of descending single strokes on the toms that slow down, but this gives me something to shoot for at the next gig
I’ve been following you since the old grainy quality video days of RU-vid and your “fake double bass” lesson using the floor Tom and kick drum. Glad to see you sharing your passion after all these years 👍🥁
Love this video. I’ve always done right hand following the kick on the 1st and 3rd kicks, with the left and foot doing KLKKLL 16th triplets on the floor Tom. Combing the two with the last one would be super tasty. Love your lessons and the big rock ending is an essential!
Brilliant!! This is the one thing I've never been able to do at all, and hate the "play the whole kit" part of soundcheck with a passion 😂. Thank you so much for sharing. 👊👊👊
Love KK paradiddlediddle nicely fits into bar lines too maybe mix with something that only lines up after a year or two. Practising it on my knees several times a day. Kit is at the pawnbrokers. .
Not boring at all. I have always ended songs by add living the ending around the drums and completing the ending with two quarter note flams on the snare and a final crash. These examples that you made are great to practice and add knowingly at the end including the facial lol
My two favorites are a six stroke roll with crashes on the accents or a paradiddlediddle between hands and kick. It usually goes HKHHKK but with every repeat my hands go from snare+crash to hats+floor tom.
Rad! I would add, on top of practicing these things by yourself, don't be afraid to work out orchestrated rave-up endings with your whole band. Especially on a set ender in a high energy band. Yes it's cheesy, but it's also fun as hell, not just for you but your audence too!
This has happened to me on gigs and I never really know what to do. (I think I've actually done a buzz role, embarrassingly.) Is the little lick you do on the floor tom at the very end a 4-stroke ruff with the primary note on the kick? Pretty sure that's what I'm hearing.
Rock endings sometimes means "trash can endings", but trash can endings do not have to be so flashy. One simple "trash canner" in rock is to do this is the cross-stick cymbal trill using 2 cymbals on the L and R sides (leaving the bass drum alone)----and to do the "stinger"--on cue---aka "crash out", you do a flam on the low tom-tom and do the bass drum hit at the same time--and the rock outro (and the song) ends like that. Exclamation point.
Yes! This is great. I feel like I am constantly letting down the band when I just hit a single crash at the end of a song. I need to make a little more noise at the end of songs. Thanks Mike!
a lot of these are really fast ones too. I like to do big drum fills sometimes at first and speed them up, and move my hands around to different cymbals during the cymbal swells. also bonham fills are good and portnoy fills
Great content? Check Killer shots? Check Incredible audio? Check Informative and entertaining? Check ✔ and ✅ Of course it's all these! It's Mike Johnston! Am I basically interviewing myself with this style of comment? Yes, yes I am... But let me be perfectly clear about this.... I mean every word! 😁 OK, I had my fun - great video Mike. I'm definitely going to have to add the changed angle on the cymbals to what I already do 😅🤣😂 Such a simple but effective thing.
A good example of this is Rock and Roll by Zep. Bonham plays a really cool slow to fast to slow "rock ending" and it is hard to imagine the song without it. But these examples are more general and broadly applicable across many songs. Thanks.
This immediately brought to mind Patti Smith's version of So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P90gHagiMvc.html
