Mike Johnston is awesome! Please make sure you listen to the great message about positivity he gives around 28:45 after he finishes playing. Mike is the epitome of class.
These guys are so classy. Also, Thomas Lang is so cool that I would like him even if he had never touched a drum kit. If either of these fellas comes near my area for a clinic, I'm am there!
Awesome, Thanks for uploading this! Mikes so on to it. There's not many clinic where you can take something educational and helpful away, most clinic consist of a drummer playing a solo, playing to a track, describing their gear and answering the same questions. Love Mikes message at the end too!!
Setting limits on your solos is such an awesome idea. I saw a video of an older clinic of Jojo Mayer where he mentioned trying to solo using only 8th notes. Since 8th notes is something that literally everyone can play, doing it in a way that doesn't sound amateurish is quite difficult and forces you to be creative. That's something I've played with from time to time and now I have a few more ideas to try out. I love that constant quarter note cross-stick idea at the end too. Wicked awesome!
sometimes I would leave negative comments ,when I'm very dispointed with a video but I've never really paid attention that it would cause somone to quit,or feel so bad about himself though this was never my intention but since now I will watch myself,Thank you Mike for this lesson, it would be so nice if each influencial drummer would spread such message
Two hours later Dario won a brand new Mapex drum set. He had a 1 in 450 chance. Then got to play on stage with the Alice Cooper band along with other celebrity drummers. A drummers dream for sure!
I‘ve seen this so many times but it’s still unbelievable what Thomas Lang does. Such a show off like „look at me humans, I am not one of you and I can do it all“ Maybe you have to be an octopus to have a chance to ever do this 😂
Thanks for making and posting this video. I little less movement and zooming in and out would definitely make it more enjoyable next time. Thanks for getting Lang's foot work!
Thomas Lang is a machine, and I dont think the roland kits do him any favours, starts to sound way too mechanical with those sampled sounds, yet he rocks on an acoustic kit.
wow, i've never heard of mike johnston but he knows his shit! his half of the clinic was really cool haha. and, as usual, thomas lang is just fucking awesome
I actually like the camera work, the close ups of people were hilarious, especially the kid with the mustache.the panning DID make me kinda woozyheaded. but it was very dynamic and kept my attention. great job
So fun to watch Mike's inspiring clinic about how you not just can "baga-di-back-gu-ga-hip-tu-hap-hip" things 'cause at some point it will no longer be inpressive, that you're not worse than any other drummer, or better, just in different time on the timeline and saying we should comment something positive on a RU-vid video just to make a drummer stay in this drumcommunity called "family". Then Thomas comes in and do the fastest drumsolo he can ever come up with, he's obviously doing this clinic just to because Roland told him to, taking up a 9-10 year old kid from the audience who's been playing for 9 months. Saying after they're done jamming: "At your age, I was sooo much better than you". Draging his selfconfidence to 0. You see very quickly how good person Mike is and he has given alot of influence in many drummers, including me.
***** I'mTheDrummer Yes, he said that. And it wasn't a joke.. He said that as a joke. But it is true. He was much better.. But then still, Mike said before in his clinic "you're not worse than any other drummer, or better, just in different time on the timeline" so that means that this kid is behind on the timeline. Thomas Lang has played since he was 3. This 9-10 year-old kid had played 9 months..
It's weird. A few months ago I was limiting myself to a single pedal kick, snare, hi-hat, high tom, floor tom and ride. I was SO freaking creative. And now that I watch this video, it reminded me of that. Well, my creativity didn't wear off. I'm using 7 pc kit right now and I pull off some really cool stuff.
You know all bullshit aside, having been to NAMM a few times and met some musicians that were real fuckin assholes, watching Lang playing with that kid completely made my heart smile. That kid is probably gonna be a bad ass drummer
In fairness to Thomas Laing he did tell Dario he was awesome. I don't think he intended to put him down by saying he was better than him at his age. Probably reading a bit too much into that. A great clinic and i wish i could have been there. BTW The moustached kid is just pure gold :)
A side point, really enjoyed the clinic due to the camera angles flowing with topic and what is being demonstrated. Smooth transitions. A person would have to be an athlete moving a camera around for one hour and a half. Great job!
AWESOME playing from both guys. Dom Famularo introduced Thomas. Dom is one truly incredible player too. Too bad he didn't play also. Still have to say I'm an acoustic fan…….the Roland triggery sound just doesn't get it for me… Fun listening tho anyway
Just relax and stop trying so hard and maybe it will reflect in your playing. I had the same problem when I first started out, but now that I feel more comfortable behind the kit it reflects in my playing and posture!
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