I have a two year old that truly has a gift for drumming, and I am not kidding it’s pretty crazy! I am not a musician at all. How do I help him develop his gift?
@@djheyward8147 there's a youtube channel called Wilson world (their son is insanely talented). they've just started a drumming educational website called Drum Hub For Kids, you should check it out for your son :)
Wow. That was pretty great! I've heard about and thought about moving the beat around within the beat, but never considered doing it within the measure. I'll definitely have to try this in performance.
Excellent again Drumeo! Can you guys do a video on something like "Staying focused on the time for long periods of time"...he mentioned this in the video. Sort of a staying focused topic. Thanks.
I've only been playing a few months. I decided to use just my phone app and plugs instead of my IEMs and experiment with relying on the screen flash. More accurately, I'd set my clock, start, then look back every few bars. Even at 90bpm 1/4 pulse, it was telling, and helpful to practice reigning in my tendency to speed up or drag if I start moving around the kit. I use Metronome Beats (android). So far it's great. It does whole screen flash, tempo trainer. You can set the subdivision AND what parts to play as well as the click sound for each. So like only the third note of triplets to lock in a shuffle. You can also manually set audio latency manually for if you're using BT so that the screen and audio will match.
Yes, I run through single and double stroke pyramids at 60bpm from 1/4 notes through to 32nd note subdivisions including 5's and 7's... 15mins in total 8mins up, then 7 back down. Really great for practicing switching between subdivisions.
5:03 I've fiddled with that before, sort of. I realized that since I like odd times and polyrhythms, but sometimes like to play to a click, it would be easier to just learn how to play "around" the metronome rather then fiddle with making this big custom click track. There's a "composition", for lack of a better word, that I came up with that's in 11/16, and I would play it to a metronome that hits on every 3rd 16th note; I realize that, just doing that one thing, I've pretty much touched on this whole list.
try doing the full table of time 1 - 16ths, using metric modulation!! like play a drum beat at let's say 40-60 bpm then play nonuplets (9s) instead of 8s, so 40/8*9. you're playing at 45 bpm despite the click being set to 40, then do this with 10s, 11s, etc until you get to 16s!! (80 bpm, increments of 5 bpm). it's basically using odd tuplets on a large scale of time, and the bars will be odd, such as 11 having 5 ½ bars instead of 4, (55 bpm instead of 40). I like to use this to gradually speed up/ slow down.
Playing as odd grouping & trainer. On trainer, I have pre built click sequence that goes quarters for 1 min, then whole notes 1 min, then click every 2 bars. Cool challenge written by Inner Clock guy. Spacing his name.
Ha, the 'static click' thing is something I naturally grew in to because I'm too lazy to change the tempo on my metronome. 120 BPM? Yeah, let's play 16th notes. 150 BPM? Make those quintuplets. 180 BPM? Sextuplets it is! Etc... :-)
Isn't #3 how its supposed to be done? Like all the written out sheet music I know has a bpm set for quarter notes and thats what you set the metronome to.
Sometimes you can get caught up in trying to play right on the beat every time though, and music is made in the little "imperfections" that we know as feel
yes i noticed years ago if you practice or play to a metronomic click or staccato sound if your hitting the beat dead center the click will disappear . this audio phenomena was mentioned by a previous person who commented the same thing. Brandon said he found a free metronome on google.I wonder why he did not name it 🤷🏻♂️🤔
I’ve also created a few custom click tracks that omit a few clicks at random times throughout the track. Catches you off guard at first but it’s helped my timing a ton since I’m not anticipating when the click gaps will be coming!
Hey Brandon, cool video. Another cool thing is to go through "The Table Of Time" with a quarter note click, from Half notes up to 32nd note triplets. Using singles, doubles & single paradiddles, both right hand lead, then left hand lead. The odd numbered subdivisions like 5's, 7's, 9's & 11's really take some concentration, but is worth the effort in learning them.
I set my metronome to click on every 1/8th note and the 1 and 3 are different tones. When I need to play 1/16th notes or triplets I’ll count out loud to get the timing more even. I went from messy to solid almost immediately.
These are great hacks! I like the last one with creating dead space as a way to do a self check on your time. Also, I've always played around with trying to float around the metroGNOME....it is a simple way to make practice more enjoyable for sure. Great video as always!
I have been building on thr static click idea for a while. There is always a tendacy with practicing to speed up and loose technique. So in my mind static click builds on your technique, which can the be applied to faster tempos.
I use knock box (free app) for the last hack, the clicks keep disappearing gradually until it’s completely gone for a few bars (as set by you), and then it’ll come back on gradually. Quite satisfying to hit that 1 spot on after a number of bars of “emptiness” (well, when that happens lol) For hack 5, I usually do it the other way round so it’s something new learned today! I sometimes do pyramids at 60bpm from 1-10 notes per beat. Quite fun. Useful hacks there! Thanks!
Hey Brandon, great ideas! I use the static click trick which is quite helpful with the note tree. My faves from your list are displacing the click and using it as a trainer. Plan to use them today! My only addition is at times I'll lower the volume of the click so that if I'm on, it disappears. Unmistakable feedback. Thanks!
Any recommendations on a trigger/metronome product.....I'm new to the whole concept. I would want something I can practice to but also count me in for gigs as well as something that has triggers for different sounds if they make such a thing??
There are so many way's you can use a metronome to practice with. Be creative it only will help you become so much better. Its worth to start practicing with a metronome.
1)slow metronome tempo + forcing your body to feel it natural (changing often the subdivision) 2)DAW often offer a variety of click topper loops that can give a musical twist to the click you have to deal with . Combining these 2 tips you will smash your session without a second tought ;)
Man I was trying to play a song at 93 bpm it felt really close but not quite natural when you said you could double that I instantly tried it at 186 and it made my drumming much better and it felt much more like it does when we play it live. You helped me get last the robotic part of recording my drums
Another trick, if you're using a click in a DAW, is to change the click sound to be a drum sound, like a bass drum or hi-hat sample. Reaper let's you set a sample in the built in metronome and this helps me a lot when recording.
