Military Drummer tries BLAST BEATS for the first time 

Not that random people would care but today I started playing the drums.

By the way he pronounces "trve", we can see that he did not join the "kvlt"

He should start a band with Stevie T. They look related.

Do the diarrhea blast twice as fast for the real effect. Triplet 16ths instead of 8ths. It's easy to gallop at those slower speeds but faster tends to funny enough clean itself up a bit.

Yes, you should practice these, 40 hours a day!

As a metal drummer I can say this is a very accurate description of the first time you try any of these

It's Hoglan blast, not Hogan. It's invented by Gene Hoglan, one of the greatest drummers to ever live :v

Last time I came this early, my girlfriend cheated on me

As 66Samus would say, “OH YUR!”

I feel like Terrence Fletcher here screaming, "FASTER! DOUBLE TIME!!!"

Do some work with Samus he is a great person

Love the picture of the Spike Jones children's kit ad. Good find!

EMC: Should I practice? TwoSetters: *just start giggling*

The faster he goes, the more uncomfortable he looks.

12:00 “wow its really difficult to do this one this fast. what if i make it even choppier so its easier?”

We need a full i dont know what the heck i'm Doing Cadence

While playing this thru my PA, my wife came running down stairs yelling "get the washing machine its banging again" LOL!!

"What if I do Swiss armies?" *coffee spit all over phone*

7:31 sounds like the great locomotive chase

Samus uploads blast beat video today? Emcproductions uploads blast beat video? Coincidence? I think not

Dirk Blast: *exists* Military Drummers: “So you have chosen... Death.”

I'm not surprised that the dirk blast was the cleanest he did. Awesome job!

I HAVE NEVER CLICKED ON A VIDEO SO FAST

it's stevie t on drums.

“Turvuh” XD lol! EMC you’re so pure and innocent

Maybe compose some original blast beats inspired by drum corps playing? That'd be a pretty cool video. 👀

"sixty six samus" lol adorable tbh

If you don't regularly play with a double pedal, this is pretty impressive man. Good job!

The dirk blast is definitely your style, bro! Love seeing music teachers doing their most to become the best!

Most of those weren't too bad. Then the DIRK BLAST. Literally open mouth gasped and was simultaneously shocked and appalled at how insane that was just now lol

Impressive. But can you play "Caravan" without bleeding on the kit?"

It's awesome that you tried this. I'd love to see you practice these and do it again in 6 months.

Word of advice, set your pedals to the highest tension, and make the foot boards parallel, back your throne up so your legs are at a 90 degree angle, and raise your throne so you get more power on your kicks.

Sam Paulicelli (66samus) is IMO one of the best metal drummers around! If anyone here is into metal drums I would highly recommend giving him a watch! It's mind blowing! Thanks so much for a metal related video. I enjoyed it very much! Always love your content! Keep it up buddy! 👍😍💯😁

That hand speed and coordination ...woowww

When he tells you to play these beats but you're pianist: guess I'll die

Totally do dis next year. Would love to do a drum battle with you!!!

When he used Swiss Army triplet to play dirk blast i died from laughing 🤣🤣

Awesome stick control and balance.

I feel like there was a missed opportunity for a lil’ Peanut appearance in this video

I kinda hope 66samus sees this video and reacts to it

Change playback speed to 2x then he is really good at it

Great job that was awesome. I loved how the backing tracks were a nice breath of fresh air from dissonant guitar all the time lol. I'd love to hear you cover an entire song :)

Ah since you know of 66Samus you should cover "Hey Al" by him lol

"Sixty six samus" 😂 Great job with the Dirk blast though! Interesting variation on it too!

The dirk blast was actually very good

Now I want to see Eric marching at 200bpm 😆

Quite genuinely you could branch out your content more since you’re starting to practice blast beats and such. Have you considered doing music covers of songs? Maybe even adding a Drumline twist to a music cover. Plus you adding metal to your already enjoyable content might be a nice addition!

As someone who loves blast beats I'm finally happy that you did this video

Dirk Verbeuren is proud of you!

Happy Birthday, USMC!

12:07 grind bands enter the chat

Since you're used to marching already, just think of the footwork required for blast beats as marching... at 666mph. ;-)

This guy just started playing with his feet and he’s busting out 200bpm singles with solid timing, even dynamics and no balance issues? Either he’s a wizard or he’s understating his experience with the feet. I accept that theres a lot of advantage to having the kind of training he’s had in precise rhythm and posture from corps. Either way mad props man. I am a few months into my drum journey, having a blast (hah) but I have a long way to go!

A lot of deathcore and death metal drummers do doubles with their feet. I'd love to see you attempt that at tempos like this!

Constructive criticism: the gravity blast can be held in the down and the up position if you loosen your grip. There are a ton of tutorials on youtube. That dirk blast was sick tho

12:08 Did he just invent THE SWISS BLAST?!

Good luck my friend. And always remember, don’t matter how good you are, there is always someone better.

You nailed Dirk Blast!!

For a non-drummer, that sounded and looked tough. Nice job!

Corpse paint is a must when attempting blast beats sir!

I love the last one its like power metal

“It should sound like an unbalanced washing machine spin cycle.”

What a legend! Love it mate.

Lol the gravity blast is usually used as a half time feel. Count 4s on the hats and blast on the snare

Definitely have some chops on the hands my dude, however the essence to a blast beat is locking in your feet. That's where I see you need a little work. Cool video and keep up the good work!

Military Drummer = badass! Happy birthday Marine Corps!

Yeah, bet you are regretting all that sass on us Metal Drummers :P Seriously though, Blasting is a skill all on its own - there's a lot of subtlety (ironically) in getting a Blast to sound like a Blast. I thought you did pretty good. Your Swiss Triplet blast was pretty fucking cool, I've not seen anyone play it that way before, if you aren't careful you might end up with a Blast named after you....

samus literally uploaded a blast beat tutorial today

Good morning and happy birthday Marine!

Dude, you should definitely review/critique my high schools marching band. They have a youtube channel where they post all of their stuff. There's one or two videos that is just drumline its called "we want drumline" I believe. The channel is called "Olentangy Orange High School Marching Band". We are (as I have been told by many people) that Orange High Schools band is the biggest high school marching band in Ohio. Not the best (though we are up there). The biggest. This year we have 250-300 members.

Happy Marine Birthday EMC.

As a metal drummer of many years, this is something I've wondered many many times. Thank you man

literally made his own blast beat pattern like it was nothing

Man I’d kill for those cymbals

Tip for gravity blasting, angle the stick outward with your knuckles facing forward and pivot on the rim

Oh what beautiful sounds

Brooo..i feel your struggle! that shit is hard as f$$ck!

The Dirk blast beat was created by Dirk Verbeuren from Megadeth

As someone who “plays” or attempts to play, I don’t like saying I’m good at it, either way, as someone who has some experience in what you’re doing, I’m honestly impressed that you had both traditional, single foot and double bass at the same speed

I'm subbed to 66samus and he just made a new one for advanced drumming

Happy 🎂 leatherneck!

i feel the struggle so badly :D - thank you for sharing these honest playing!

Nice stuff! Really enjoyed it! Great job on the Dirk Blast!

nice video! never think on swiss armies triplet to do this and now i gona practice this on my blasts, that was a great alternative ideia for the flam accent

Def do this again next year

Congratulations on your promotion Sgt Carr!!!

That dirk blast was great

I knew 66Samus would be the reason why you started blast beats, the man is a blast beat machine.

You should challenge 66samus to a drum battle where you do blast beats and he does military drumming 😂

Firstly, 66Samus tends to say his channel name as six-six-Samus Secondly, if you're looking to improve foot speed, there's a few techniques I've seen people use. The most common ones seem to be learning faster double foot-strokes (and there are a bunch of different techniques to try, the three most common being slide/toe-heel, heel-toe and swivel) and using different muscle groups to generate the single-strokes. Samus and the extreme metal drum teacher Marthyn Jovanovic recommend ankle-motion technique as a simple but effective way to gain speed. The idea is to, as the name suggests, use more of a rolling of the ankle, using the weight and momentum of the pedal to your advantage. You can use the weight better by shifting your foot back to around halfway up the footboard (where the 9 on your DW 9000s would be). That way, you're using a stronger muscle group, your calves, which also allow you to keep better balance rather than using your hip flexors (which is what I think you were using as you were continuing to use whole-leg motion on the faster stuff), and the momentum of the pedal means you're still hitting hard. I'm likely missing out a few key things here, but there are videos on RU-vid that can help you break down ankle motion/double strokes etc. Marthyn Jovanovic's channel might be a good place to start. I believe Wanja "Nechtan" Groger also has a few videos on his own technique for fast double-bass playing, so you can find them as well, compare techniques, and see what works best for you.

My biggest tip to anyone trying to get better at this style of drumming is to just relax. If you’re tensing up your muscles when trying to play faster, you’re gonna have a bad time. Take it slow at first and get comfortable before cranking up the met.

As painful as this was to watch, it is understandable as you're a beginner in the metal genre for hand/foot speed/coordination. Keep it up man! Working on minimalizing movement and utilizing ankle heel up and French grip will make massive impact on progression for speed and coordination.

Entertaining videos as always! Awesome content

Please more blast beats and metal drumming 😂 finally the content I've been dreaming of

Yes please try this again next your I would love to see that!

It's not impossible to play more than 250. My teacher had this exact metronome and he taught me to do 16th notes at half tempo to mock 8th notes. So if you want to go to 260, 16th notes at 130 bpm will work.

That last one was epic. I'm not really a metal player, although I suppose you aren't either, so I suck at blasts but would be great fun to try

Practice! Practice! Practice! You got dis.

I think you should make 66Samus try doing your snare patterns .... with his feet.