4 STAGE PRACTICE METHOD - STAGE 1: by Mike Johnston 

And on the 8th day God sent Mike Johnston for all drummers to eternally have access to the blueprints of becoming drumming creatures of magnificent reflections. Amen.

Mike changed my life as a drummer. I love drummers and especially drummers who teach and inspire others to play.

Hope this helps someone :) My notes from this lesson: 4 stage practice method- Stage 1-NON CREATIVE (10 mins) Mike Johnson Warm up your body Things I can do Something you can do, but do it better than you have ever done it before Examples: Rudiments Singles (Two on snare four on snare) Fills Grooves Bass drum/hand tech (RLKK) comfortable RLRR-RLRR, etc Put bass drum with right hand Working on clarity Precision Playing Zones Don’t speed up* Stop, deep breath, new tempo.* What do you physically want to be better at on the drum set? “It’s something you can already do, but you’d like to do better.”

Mike, I've got to get back to these vids again. You not only have some of the best technique, but everything I've learned from ya, has not only stuck with me, but improves an aspect of my playing.

One of my favorites. Great teacher, great drummer.

I have been struggling with making a practice routine for months now watching video after video and reading articles all over the place and this video just broke it down so simply and so much better for me. Thank you!!

As you know : You sir , are a great , gifted teacher. Thanks you for this.

seriously these guys are adding value to people who are interested in drumming...Luv u guys...keep it up.

Thanks Mike, always pure love for the art coming from you!

what a great and informative video you have made for ALL musicians!!! I play Chapman Stick, and I can use ALL of what you are explaining here. Many thanks!

Mike, thanks for sharing!...Continued success, happy drumming, and everyone be careful out there!

Amazing!! Thanks for sharing these tips with us :) Your bass drum technique is mind blowing and flawlessly orchestrated!

I found your videos a month ago and it’s amazing the information I’ve got now thanks to you. Wish The best for you! A fan from Argentina 🇦🇷

Great Advice, Mike. Really dug this video. Definitely gonna share this one.

This is such a brilliant lesson. It can be applied to any instrument.

"Precision over speed" any day said By Chris Coleman dig this way of teaching! I also teach drums and my students are killing it now!!

I totally agree, technique is a mean to an end. It all comes down to support the band, play with your ears instead of your hands and make music feel good. Thanks so much for the inspiration Mike!

A drum set will always sound as good as the floor tom sounds and let me tell you that floor tom sounds amazing... Well you make it sound amazing.

I love how sound that drum!

Get in where you fit in!!! Love the paradiddle exercise! Great ideas!

You just keep blowing me away with your speed and precision :o

This too great man. Can't wait to see more!

Nice approach. Loved the method 🙂👌👏👏🙏🥁🎶 It's definitely a form of art. Need to see the big picture. I always recommend my students to practice slowly, and not to rush speeding up and gradually increasing the speed..

The master at work. I look forward to coming to a drum camp one day 😊 Keep kicking ass Mike.

THANK YOU FOR THIS LESSON! GOD BLESS!

You make this so easy!

very helpful love your insights

Learned so much from this, I will turn this into my routine when getting behind the drums from now on :)

5:50 that guys smile made my day... thanks for the video tho🙏🏼

Great Mike, very informative and inspiring!! Aaron

mind blowing man...more please!

excelente musico, de verdad! muy buenos consejos y ejercicios

This is guna be a long 4 days Mike! Can't wait for the next lessons, great job!

Great video! ... Very nice and so useful!

I like to practice things that allow me to more easily produce on the fly what I hear in my mind creatively during a song. You can never go wrong by practicing the rudiments though because they translate to everything else.

YES!!! Stop, dont get into speeding up without a stop!! THANK YOU!! Great video!!!

You're a fire ass teacher. Thank you for this bro. Appreciate it

Omg! Genius! Tks teacher!

Mike is the real MVP

Great teacher!

awesome, thanks Mike

The fact he can play One by Metallica with one kick and the floor tom is insane. Can’t tell for sure but looks like it’s single strokes.

I just Love Mike. He IS the thinking Man's Drummer!! Don't just sit down and play. Play with a Plan eh?

Great approach ! Very relevant.

Mike you are the best! So glad that you're on here making us think for ourselves. I know this is an older video but I just had to say thank you.

Cool drum video. Best from the Late Night with Jphnny P Show

Dude your channel is the best i've seen so far about drumming, thank you very much

woow great approcach thank you so much ^^

life goals right here

Fantástico !!!

the "medative state" is the keyword; i'm also trying to improve a teaching method in this way

Great lesson sir 🙏

What a tasty bass drum

The best drum teacher in America.

you're the coolest drummer ever

AMAZING!!!!!!!

Omg I never thought I could play One without double bass

He's genius!

Amazing.

This is sooo good. All around.

Im definitely gonna learn that 1 foot style for one :)

Great Job 😉

Great thoughts, looking forward to the next vids in the series. Wondering why 10 minutes is the magic number ("stage 1 is always 10 minutes") as opposed to a percentage of the total practice time etc. Is 10 minutes the sweet spot for developing muscle memory on a single exercise or something?

Well sat Mr Johnston pearl the best reason why I play drums 💪🥁

wow, very impressive

YES!

my new favorite drum youtube teacher

Thanks Mike! Id really love an autograph if possible.

9 years old and playing 'One'... That's impressive...

yes!

A practicar!

i love you bro

is this in the tracking room studio in Nashville?

Do what you do better. Great philosophy. Works well with life as well as drums.

Super

Muito ToP

The Drum Whisperer...

When I was 1 year old I was playing 'Nine'

Wow. Found you!!!!🎉

Hey Mike, a couple of questions for you. I had to cancel my in person lessons due to work schedule. I am looking for good lessons online. I will admit that I feel there a lot of good channel for this so it is hard to choose. Does your online school have any schedule demands? Also, if I sign up for the year package does that allow me to access all the content on the site. For instance, Drumeo has other other content that you have to pay for separately. Let me know. Thank you.

I dig

Can I ask, what drums are you using?

I think I've seen that room in a photograph somewhere before.

Mike, I really your method. Thanks for share this on You Tube. And I have a suggestion for you: I'm a Brazilian guy that is learning English and is so much easier when we have subtitles on videos. If you can put it on your videos I believe that can be very helpful for many people. That's all. Thank you.

если есть перевод, скиньте пожалуйста

Do you know? Ben Minal is??

Are you playing a catalina club here

Awesome

Mike plays "One" cleaner with one foot than Lars does with two!

What recording studio is this ???

We all beat to a different drum. Which is lucky because I suck on the drums . But I keep on trying X

Hey mike any chance you could help me out? I'm playing at my wedding next year and I could really use some inspiration with a couple of covers. could you do a cover of them to give me some creativity? :-/

Any more tutorial s Mike boss ?

Awsome lesson as always Mike. And i hate to be THAT guy but isn't the riff from One seven strokes long? Like KKKKKKS

5:53

Is this the full lesson?

cumbia at 5:16

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WTF IS WITH HIS FOOT SPEED?!?!?