BEST WORKOUT For DEVELOPING FINGER CONTROL! w/ Beatdown 

*Never underestimate the strength of the pinky!* You can quote me on that 🤓🥁#LooseHands2018

Oh my, this channel is a gold mine.

this exercise went a little better today than I did yesterday and the day before ... but man those fives throw me every time! You make it look and sound easy.. it is not! You rock!

Rob, this exercice totally fixed my grip issues, pure magic. Thanks a lot keep working this well !

Love it! Exposes left hand weakness...tx!

I so appreciate you, I’m 67 years young and after watching your videos I’m seriously considering starting to play again, I’ve always played with bands but never took it seriously .I really want to thank you for sharing your knowledge .keep up your great work....

Don’t underestimate the power of the pinky! That’s one of THE best drumming quotes rob! Nice exercise 😎

I've seen the light!! That lesson improved my technique tenfold. Thank you Rob

My finger control is complete garbage. Thank you for making this video.

Mr. Brown, You are Spectacular! I’m getting back to playing seriously and it’s amazing to doing this as it’s a perishable skill. But your hands and fingers will remember. Thank You.

I think this is one of the most clear and clean exercises I watched yet! Thanks!

Thank you sir! In times like these this video almost qualifies as a public service! Thank you again and stay safe!!👍🥁

My first teacher called it "Captain Pinky". No bs. Loose hands still need to be in control. Pinky is almost the anchor if you will. IMO. And I am now learning how important it is to be able to count and subdivide 1 through 8 in the beat. Which may have been quarters. Not sure... counting and subdividing is crucial. But finger control is the point. Beatdown Brown is a great teacher.

This is a polymeter exercise as much as a fingers exercise. Excellent!

Hi Rob. My name is David Schroeder. I Stumbled across your videos. I played drums just myself as a teen. Wish I'd stayed with it all these yrs. I love bluegrass which mostly has no drums. I bought a banjo, & just didn't pick it up. My love for drums got me searching for a kit again at 60-yrs old. Seen a Yamaha Custom Stage kit for sale & started to look for vids on how they sound when I came across you tuning a base drum. Started following your vids and love your exercise ones. Took my 12 yr old grandson to C.A. House of music & got us both practice pads & sticks. Practicing my singles & doubles & hand control. So much info that I never had 40-yrs ago. Thank you for what you do. Gotta sell my banjo b4 I get a kit, but it will happen. Gonna help get my grandson a kit if he shows interest, but I plan on continuing to encouraging him. I've shared your vids to him so he can practice also on his phone. Thanks again for what you do. May GOD bless you!

Love it! Thanks Rob, really enjoy your play-along type vids. Very helpful. Trying to build up that single stroke speed for 2018!

Thanks so much for the videos. I really like how you keep it fun and interesting.

If you only knew how much that quote changed my life back in November

Awesome lessons!! I'm 64 and haven't played for 10yrs. I know your videos will help greatly with control and bounce for me. Great teacher! You remind me of Lenny White when you play your kit.

This channel is awesome. I just started with drums about a week or so ago. I found you on Day 2 and I already feel more comfortable with sticks in my hand. I’m 31 and the learning curve is gone. Now it’s gotta be all hard work! 💪

You are a gifted teacher Rob.

Thank you very much for sharing !!! - fantastic lessons !!! - I love it !!! Makes me practicing again - !!! Greetings and Blessings from Germany and Austria - Michael

I just cant get over how beautiful that kit is!

you are a phenomenal instructor

Thanks a lot Rob! Your lessons are really awesome!!

This video deserves more views... Thanks man..👏👏👏

We did that exercise back in my drum line days. Very effective. Good video!

Great exercise, Mr. Beatdown! In doing this exercise, for some reason, I get tripped up when counting 7's. I now sing the keyboard part from the beginning of the solo from Rush's Tom Sawyer. Then I go back to counting 8 or 6, depending on which way I'm going in the exercise.

Love this guy, his method is so clear and simple,, easy to understand and follow,, your the man Brown....

Just started watching your videos...GREAT INSTRUCTION...KEEP IT UP!!!

Tried this exercise in Unison. And took me to the new whole world of challenges. Indeed this guy is a maestro. ❤🎉

Awesome vid. Thanks for sharing your knowledge & skills 🤘

Just starting private lessons for drumset and came across your channel. These videos are perfect! Thank you 🙏🏾

Thank you, good hard work pays!!

I love your work

Love your videos, Rob! Excellent work, mate! Cheers from Australia.

Thanks! 🙏🏼

You're the best and the coolest drum teacher. Thanks man....love all your videos!

After long training, finally able to play at full speed. started at 75% very good exercise. Does great things with the hands. GREAT CHANNEL!!!!

Great lessons!

I learned that same one as a warm up exercise from Simon Phillips in a workshop back in the nineties...still doing it

Another great lesson from the Master Beatdown. You're the man Rob.

Thank you Rob, this is not easy to play those odd groupings against a click. I have long admired your video opening graphics. I wonder if you would be so kind as to give a tutorial on how you create those.

Hah! did this with you in my office (I keep a pair of stick and a putty pad in my credenza), and I found I have some work to do training my ear to track 5s and 7s over a 4/4 click! Especially 7s. Thank you, brutha!

Great handworkout man. Also the rest of the notes after the accents can be used to help practices ghosting

awesome! I really enjoy it!, I am looking for a exercise of fingers, thanks a lot!

Thank you for sharing your skills as always Rob.

You're the best, Rob! These videos are enlightening and the regularity with which you release them challenges me to stay on top of practice!

I definitely struggled a little going from 4 and doing the 5's...and the same with the 7's, but I just followed you and kinda got it (with a little fumble here and there). It was all about trying to count off 5 and/or 7 (especially trying to stay inside the click). It was never about the speed though. 4, 6 and 8 we're relatively easy. I'd rather not skip fives and sevens if they're valuable. I'll keep it going and see if they stick. Good exercise though. Thanks!

whew that was awesome! Mental and physical challenge I Loved it

Absolutely great this channel man. Thanks a lot!!

love your videos man, do you have one on how to develop your weak hand

It's also fun to start with a 2-note group, but flam the last stroke of each group into the accent of the next group. Then you get alternating flams, then flam taps, then a flammed triplet, etc as you add strokes to the groupings. So you can develop clean flams in addition to the other benefits of this exercise.

Thanks Uncle Rob! I love your channel!

Awesome, and beautiful kit!

Great video and important concept.

Thank you Rob. 👍

I'm a little behind on these great videos. But I'm catching up. Never realized how sloppy and out of shape my technique and playing was until I started using your videos as a practice routine. You also turned me into a KZ In Ear Monitor fan/user. Thanks for the awesome content Rob. You, sir are a monster drummer.

I love your channel .

Hell yeah !!!

💜tnx

This might be one of the harder exercises for me! Getting those 5's and 7's in will be a challenge. This is gonna be fun.

No did not keep up all. 5,7, off a bit but brain is learning. Your other videos are so helpful.

💚 this video is dope

In the words of Vinnie's t-shirt... Spoilt.. Another Banger Rob, Stay Blessed.

Great workout Rob! It´s so much more fun to do it with you, so thanks for the upload. Never been a fan of the pad (shame on me), but this feels like you´re my gym buddy lol! Keep it up!

3s are good classic material for that Moeller action as well. When’s that Beatdown Brown workout video coming out 😜👌🏽🎶🥁

Thanks for saying that group of 4s and 8s are easier to do. I have difficulty staying on the 4-4 time with the other groupings.

Love your channel, so much useful and easy to access information! Unfortunately, I’m having difficulties with finger technique. I have been trying to do this exercise for quite some time, but I still can’t get through since my left hand fingers don’t seem to get faster. How did you start learning finger technique? How did you improve your left hand? Btw, I’m playing matched grip.

Good way to learn the flying fingers technique. Get those blast beasts going!

11:25 precisely, i'm getting problems playing 5, & 7, 6 is not too perfect but i had to slow the video down to get those 5 and 7 grouping, but great video man, thank you!

Really great exercise again man! I totally get your point about not dropping below 150-160bpm, but do you think that dropping a bit below could be useful if your not used to the odd groupings and want to learn those? Or do you suggest another exercise for that particular scenario?

Awesome and thank you for this !!! What is the practice pad you are using in this demonstration? Thank you in advance.

I can tell the difference in my playing awesome !!!!!

What the bpms of the metronome

...THE MAN...THE LEGEND

That's a great exercise, I do something similar all the time. Now throw some flams in there!!!

Hi Rob, I hope you will reply. I have arthritis in my 2nd finger on Left hand. It difficult to wrap finger (distal joint) around drum stick. Please tell me that 2nd finger does not have to curl all the way around stick in order to have great control. Thanks for your great listens.

Hello Rob. Do you use heavy sticks or light sticks doing this. ??

Any suggestions for drummers with short pinky fingers? It's hard to keep them on the stick.

Damn another great lesson...you should start a drum academy!!!

Don't get the use of metronome for awkward groupings. For example on 5. It changes the position of accent. But what is the logic. Meaning it moves 16th notes and sometimes not on click signal. When you change the grouping? To land on 1 or what? What is the logic?

I tend to use the word "sev" in place of seven when counting that particular grouping or 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 and also count the 8's as two groups of 4 (ie. 1 e & a 2 e & a or 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ) just to help with accuracy. What are your thoughts on this?

Another interesting way to do this is to do it only with your weak hand, accenting only the first stroke of every grouping... try it :))

Hi Rob! Great stuff, but I noticed that your snare/practice pad height is way way way above your knees. Mine was always lower, barely above the knees. Whaddya think? I mean, you seem perfectly comfortable like that, but...what do you recommend? Thanks, -Greg

This one the next one DIBS!!!

Beginner drummer here. Just started playing yesterday, was practicing with a metronome, but when I'd play the metronome would totally disappear, but if my timing fell out, I could hear the metronome again. Is it okay to practice like this, or should I totally blast the metronome so I always hear it? Thanks, drummers.

before: "They call them fingers, but I never see them fing" after: "Oh there they go"

What kind of practice pad did you use in this vide?

Does your wrist still move a bit when you do this? I'm a total beginner with drums and I think I'm using my fingers but the wrist still moves a bit so not sure if I just think I'm using my fingers when I'm actually using my wrist.

Is it a good thing for your wrists to get sore After excessive practicing?

Hey Rob, thanks again for another inspired workout. What drum machine metronome are you using?

should i do this with heavy sticks? I am new to drumming and have a set of 2's and 4's(sticks). i also have pretty long fingers. I'm not looking for easy, i want to do what is best. Thanks in advance. Great video as always!

More pinky for the people!

damn this is hard!

Ron my left hand won't keep up help!!!!!!!

Rob! Please Help! My right hand I can do this all day. My left hand fingers cant seem to find the fulcrum like my right hand. Any suggestions?

I do not understand when and why to use the middle-finger fulcrum, rather than the first.

How big is that kick?

gah this is hard!