I like the slur effect that fill 01 has on the snare. It's like it slows down without slowing down. And when you play it twice it has this really cool, almost film score effect. I can imagine a nunchacku specialist going up against a fellow chucker. It's amazing how different fill 02 sounds slowed down verses sped up. Slowed down it sounds like a beginners fill, but sped up it feels super advanced. Fill 03 sounds like it needs some vocals over it. Like it is made to compliment a very specific lyric line, which gives it an almost speaking quality, or added depth you might say. Fill 04 sounds really cool sped up, but on the slowed down version I wonder what it would sound like if the first two flams were played on the snare, and then 03 and 04 went from rack tom to floor tom. I'm not a drummer, so this might be a terrible suggestion, but it's what I hear in my head. That is for the 3 then 5 version, not the 5 then 3 version. Also, one thing I really thought was cool, that I've never really noticed before is the way you gradually increase the crash symbol volume as you make your way through the 3 5 3 5 example. That adds quite a lot of depth to that straight forward sounding groove. I'll have to be on the lookout for this dynamic in the future. I'm sure it's a common thing I've just never noticed before, but it sounds great! 05 sounded like it would be right at home as a covert fill under a busy section of a song, or under some lyrics. Really, really cool stuff. Thank you sir for sharing your work with us!
Great lesson as always! Clear explanation and well executed. Maybe I missed it, but I'd love to see a rundown of your kit and why it is the way it is. I'm especially curious about the beater, it looks like rubber with the shaft wrapped in tape. Is that a weight thing? EDIT: you mentioned the beater in the Q&A, sorry!
I started drumming very late in life as a bucket list endeavor so I will never be able to do these, but I am curious how long it takes a young person to be able to play these fills as he did--with the same speed and accuracy? Ten years of experience at say four hours a day? At that tempo one certainly cannot be, I imagine, even thinking of the notes and sticking as there is no time for cognition and it all has to be firmly encoded in muscle memory. Is t possible that even that amount of time wouldn't do it as there are obvious innate talents and skills to move around a kit that quickly and precisely?
I’d say it depends on the person and their respective goals as a drummer. If they’d want to become a professional drummer and recording artist it is obvious that they will put more effort in their work than someone that just plays for enjoyment. But at some point you’re only drilling fills for a particular session where the artist requested something in particular that can’t be played another way. Otherwise you’d mostly be practicing fluency in the drumming language and playing fills that come directly from your heart/years of practice and hard work, but all this comes from drilling rudiments, groupings, phrasing, dynamics, etc. Also some people might develop their rudiments further than another one who decided to focus more on phrasing or time for example, so they’d become “specialists” of a particular aspect of drumming, hence why drummers are so different from one to another. A good example is listening to Philly Joe Jones, who used a lot of rudiments in his language whereas someone like Jimmy Cobb, whose language is more focused on time and feel. The answer would be different from a person to another, but almost all these fills incorporate phrases that go over the beat (even over the bar for some of them) and rudiments that take quite some time to master.
@@jf-yi8wg Thank Jules for such a thorough and thoughtful answer. This video really struck home the fluency involved. Michi makes it look smooth and effortless, but there must be hours and years behind this level of skill. Philly Joe Jones and Jimmy Cobb are excellent examples. Both are, in my opinion, residents in the drumming Pantheon.
@@Neal_Schier also, don't forget that this is a video for youtube, so there's limited time to teach each of these if you take any of these, especially the first 3, set the metronome at 40 or 50, I guarantee you will be able to play them. maybe in a month or two. what most of use lack is patience. the way he teaches is also great, because you learn the sticking first, and then you orchestrate it, and that's probably the easiest way to learn these. I honestly believe you can play at least one of these in a few weeks, just go steady and slowly =)
He clearly has put a lot of time practicing. But to master any of these patterns you have to slow them down and repeat, repeat and then repeat some more. Repeat when practicing and when not practicing… my wife goes crazy with my all day tapping😁. Once it becomes an automatic thing speed comes natural. You got this. It won’t take years
