Bernie Dresel - Flashy Snare Drum Licks 1 

Why are most of you hating on Bernie Dresel? He's an excellent drummer who plays with good taste.He played with Maynard Ferguson and Brian Setzer for 15 years now and also has done GREAT work on Gordon Goodwin's music which has 15 Grammy nominations so why the hate? His pinky's are out? So what? He gets the job done and is still employed when many are struggling to make a living playing music.Steve Gadd said it best" Technic doesn't mean shit unless you can play a groove and lock it in" which is exactly what Bernie does.Sorry for my rant but stop trying to be-little hard working musicians because he's trying to make an instructional video entertaining. If you've watched the amount of videos I've watched with boring monotone drummer explaining exercises that would put anyone to sleep, you'll realize this is refreshing. Keep drumming and stop the hate.

Bernie Dresel is one of my biggest drumming influences! Thanks for the vid!

Hi Bernie, I remember you from Sharon, Pa. where I graduated high school. You were in a band called Starbreaker. I am real proud of you and wish you many years of success. It's great to see home town success. Take care.

Hey Bernie, how you doing ? Hope all is well. Turning my grandson on to your videos. He has really taken a liking to the drums so I gave him an old snare I had and your website. Keep on banging like I taught you hahahah. One of your biggest hometown fans an old neighbor, Judy. Tell Johnathan hello also

Thank you very much. There's is actually 3 more minutes to that particular lesson available. That and 25 other lessons (for beginning, intermediate and advanced players) are available for download at starsteachmusic.

Great stuff. Thanks for posting this Bernie!

Guess who's getting lessons from Bernie? This guy!

i like how he teaches. and triplet double stroke rolls are fun as hell to play. reminds me of doing paradiddles counting them as triplets. its fun too, makes me laugh. its weird when youre by yourself playing drums and end up laughing at rudiments... sometimes i fall off my drum stool.

I don't understand why so many people diss Bernie..he's a very versatile "get the job done" type of drummer. Listen to his playing with Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band...it's perfect.

Bernie is also a master studio Percussionist, two of his latest , Super 8 and Cars 2, with Alex Acuna, Walter Rodriguez, Dan Greco, Don Williams and others, and of course Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad and Cleveland just to name a few this month !! Yes this month !!

Love the video! How can I view part 2? Really want to learn how to play the DB intro, verbatim. Thx

Keep it up Josh, he is the best. You are a lucky guy !! Do you ever go to Cafe Cordial or Vitello's?? You should ask Bernie to take you to a session with him. I do Bernies cartage, about 25 years now !!

i second that, very high quality

He's friggin' AWESOME... very cool.

aaaaaaaaahhh! CRAVIOTTO i love that snare

i like the mother of pearl on the tom shells , very nice

Is that a Craviotto snare?

this guy is the real deal. for real.

you get a thicker "fatter" sound on the snare if you do. you can hear the difference more clearly if you try it on the ride, the butt end has more of a blunt sound than the tip, try it.

elvis has left the building!!

@SnapShotShawtyz yes it is... even im just a newbie and i know that it makes it sound louder and with more shaped wave

what kind of snare is that??? i think it sounds very nice!

man i wish theyd post more of that site's vids, shame u have to pay for this, it really is a great instructional vid

Its a popular thing that a lot of traditional grip players will do to get more power when needed. Obviously its not necessary for power, just about the feel. I tend to do it from time to time as well.

Thank you. I found this usefull.

elvis has left the building thank ye very muuuuccchh :P

Nice, question . what is one snare head that is neutral sound or go snare head or luck of better word the best snare head available out there?

Krupa lives on.

@frimple1 He's not playing paradiddle-diddles. He's playing double strokes in 6 note groupings (rr-ll-rr). A paradiddle-diddle is r-l-rr-ll.

What is the sticking?

i think 'fulcrum' is the motion. fulcrum is a ''lever'' motion, the one he is doing with his right hand. but my question is why is he holding the drumstick with the tip and the shoulder of the stick by his wrist and the shaft and 'butt' of the stick touching the snare drum.

i love the triplet part!

Indeed...

I didn't learn anything either really. He's good and I liked the "hey bernie, you ever work on your doubles to get that 2nd accent." comment...lol

@wadoryu2u Nah, Bernie's the man. I met him and talked to him for a while about touring and dealing with people's personalities in music and all that. He's a nice dude and a really good big band drummer.

Buddy Holly yes, that blouse is great to country And western

this guy is awesome! haha

Legend

there are lots of drummers wich hold one stick upside down - for example Mike Portnoy. I think this is to bring the clicks sound much better if you understand my "break-up" english

This is a really crude explanation so apologies if you don't get me. Imagine you can play two volume levels with each hand; quite and loud. when you use matching sticks the dynamics should be identical (provided you have good technique in each hand!). Using the butt of one stick changes the dynamics in that hand, meaning that you now have four dynamics; quite and loud for the right hand, and quite and loud for the left. I hope you understand that, I didn't explain it very well!

Uhh why is his left drum stick the other way around?

@hiphopsucks96 ...yep!

this tempo! that tempo!

Dresel is the nuts ! Fucking quality .....

ii have that exact snare drum o.O

@10sharks10 I don't know why, but I find this funny.

He's holding his left stick upside down.

wonder why he holds his one stick backwards.

this guy is crazy!

@lileulileu Nah, i think he is so Cool, that he always looks chilled out and wasted.

would it be considerd 32d note tripletrs?

Nice Craviatto Snare :D

wow, i didnt notice that.... its true

WOW

He was putting a special edition Moongel on his tom...

paradiddles are usually left right left left, right left right right. NOT triplets. or at least thats what i was taught in pipe band

why is he holding the stick upside down?

@georgec2468 He mentions stuff like that in our private lessons and it leaves me just like wow, this is the real deal.

amazing you guys don't know what paradiddle's are!!

it's called the fulcrum. Jojo Mayer talks indepth about it

yes, all people must look exactly the same....

Emile, I have gotten over it. I PASSED THIS CLOWN YEARS AGO - he is now swimming in MY wake pal.

Dirty Boogie--He wiped one on the floor tom!!Remind me not to shake hands with him.

yes i understood! that was what i thought, but i still think it is weird... and in some way it even looks like wrong

why is he holdin the other drumstick upside down O.o

@thecravenator42069 okay, that's not traditional grip if that's what you're talking about. You should never do a snare lick like that because of the different sound it creates. No is there possibly a place where it might be beneficial to do that? Possibly, but no one should ever do that during a long snare lick like that.

that is a nice idea right there. double strokes but triplet based. (im left handed so I hereby suggest that ALL drum instruction should refer to yr strong hand as A and weak as B) so paradiddle is no longer RLRR LRLL, but ABAA BABB, which makes it easier for everyone)) so waht this cat is playing is Aa bb aa, Bb aa bb, Aa bb aa, Bb aa bb....(accents in capitals) At first I thought he meant Aab Baa Bba Abb Which is a head fck

WOW!!! kind of stuff

@lileulileu knowing bernie, probably

Keith lost his grip...:( Bernie is great. So is Brian Setzer and so am I! :p And even I play guitar the "wrong" way!

i watched the hole video just waiting for him to explain why he is holding he's drumsticks like that

i tried his technique and after one week of practice i went and shot a drum solo video check it out.

ableerr deer WOOOOW baderrr

This guy makes me laugh every time.

he is not high, he is just cooler than you....

Got Marching Band?

the hihat creeps me out sometimes :P

@10sharks10 It creates a different sound.

But can he swing?

...brian setzer?

@colorfulwithaU Sound is important but drumming is not all about sound. its performance and showmanship too. i've been in DCI and trust me the pinky out does not fly there and it does not fly on any other percussion instrument. someone of his level of skill should know that and he should break the habit.

How are all you gonna sit here and bash him? He's fucking amazing! go listen to travis barker

IF I DRINK AND PLAY AS HE PLAYS I WANNA BE DRUNK

haha i dont know if he meant to do this, but one of his sticks is upside down

well maybe he's drunk but i still learnt something

this snare is OTO!what OTO?CRAVIOTTO

dude omg he totally wiped a boogie, maybe thats why the song is the dirty boogie?

@BaByDrMa i keep my ring and pinky finger off the sticks

THta doesn't matter as long as you sound good.

WOOWW hehehe

at 135 he wipes a "dirty boogie" on the flo tom. his real names "goober"!really!

@insanitystruck All fingers (including the pinky) SHOULD be under the stick. But if your pinky strays from the stick it's not that big a deal, because when you're playing matched grip, most of your finger control is in the middle and ring fingers, and the fulcrum (thumb and index) holds it up. All in all, it's about the sound you get out of the drums. Whether a drummer "looks like a pussy" or not while playing has nothing to do with how good they are.

im going to assume you know that hes holding it backwards for flipping his traditional hand to match... and your bieng funny

Somebody...please...MOON GEL!!!

holy mother of crap, unless i'm mistaken, that is a craviotto snare. if you have a craviotto snare, you have either got more money than god, or you have officially ARRIVED in terms of endorsements.

Did he just stoke his floor tom? ...

this is the meat icing on the pot induced potato meat cake icing cake

I think this guy married his cousin. Male cousin.SICK!

lol another thing. why is it that from 2:47 to the 3:07 he plays with his mouth open?? lol so weird

yeah..haha