SKANK BEAT TRICKS 

THE BASS DRUM IS THE EARTHQUAKE,THE SNARE IS THE AFTERSHOCK.YOU CANT HAVE AN AFTERSHOCK WITHOUT AN EARTHQUAKE!!DAMN I MISS MY DRUM SET.

I can't find the words to describe how useful this was.

Air drumming this at the bus stop. Your vids make me want to practice, you're awesome.

Six years later and this video is still helping people like me trying to figure out a beat that was just beyond me. Just thought I'd let you know. Thank you.

Dave Lombardo: King of the Skank Beat. You are the successor Sir!

I've never had a face to face drum lesson in my life. But I would gladly pay good money to have Josh be my drum teacher. Love all you do man!

Josh you should consider playing something from Sodom or Kreator. My personal favorite thrash bands.

Great point about the headbang moves guiding you. Something I pondered at times too. We bop to the bass beat in any kind of music most if not all the time.

Thank you Josh, I've been watching your videos for about a year now, you've inspired me and helped my drumming out so much with amazing covers and tutorials like this, your definitely one of the best and most entertaining drummers on RU-vid, Thanks again ;)

Really helpful stuff! Couldn't seem to get it right but after this video and 2 weeks of practice finally got it to a moderate tempo so I can play some classics from kill em all! Thanks man!

Awesome tutorial brother. I thought I pretty much had this technique down, but you just gave so many awesome tips on how to improve it, and picture it in your mind. Thank you brother, always enjoy your videos.

This was what i needed man. Thank you.

You the man Josh love how humble you are bro keep up the great drumming

Thank you, the whipping motion has changed my whole playing!

Awesome man, I already did it the right way although I never had lessons on that, so thank you for the confirmation!

Thank's for the tips man! Very useful !

I had the skank beat confusion in my youth playing drums too. It was Lars from Metallica, who all to often would play the beat the wrong way round, half way through a section, and the sometimes flip back again and sometimes not. Lombardo was perfect at it, and I just had to follow him to figure out what was going on. I am high on morphine pills right now due to broken knees, so I hope my message makes sense. But thanks goes to you for making this video, because I always had doubt about how the skank beat worked. Moellar system is the way too.

Thanks a lot man!!! I always struggling with this beat. Now at least I can start practicing your trick.

This helps a ton ! Thanks a lot Josh ! Cheers from France

Great video man! No bullshit, no time wasting, very well explained. I'm sure a lot of us would like you to do some more! :)

Great lesson man, useful and to the point.

you should do some more vids like this this really helped me as i am self taught and really just learn songs by ear and memorization

Great lesson man for all us thrash junkies! ;)

Good tips. Thanks

Hey man, you really helping me out here! Thx a lot and keep on rocking 🤟

I swear by this ' couldn't agree more Great video

Thanks for the tips, man! All this time I've always use the snare as the leading beat for doing the skank beat and I always get a headache lol XD anyway thank you for making this video, it really helpful

Great video it really helped me thank you so much. When i followed you you had 600 subscribers. Now its 91.000 and İ always learn something from your videos. You never disappoint . Thank you again\m/

Great snare sound

Damn man this is EXACTLY what I thought a long ago. I realized the kick is the leading beat just by listening these kind of songs over and over It helps a lot when playing guitar o any other instrument

Amazing

Excellent tutorial.

this lesson helped me a lot? thanx dude

Very informative and helpful, thanks

dude literally u saying that the bass drum and the head line up i immediately got it it was insane ur the actual goat ty sm

Your the best drummer on RU-vid keep up the work seriously :)

Thanks man this reallly helped!

awesome josh really enjoyed this tutorial thingy lol but still man i love your style so much because it's so similar to mine and whenever somebody asks me how i maintain the speed i usually can't explain i just have a technique and that's all there is to it 😁 but yeah man i totally do all these myself and always have since the beginning of my drummer life haha and to be honest the most helpful one imo is the wrist technique ya know the one with the bounce back of your forearm 😀 great video though dude thoroughly enjoyed

josh! 99k subs, you're so close! its killin me:')

Thanks man!!

very helpful video thank you

Thanks for answering my comment with this video! Really changed my view on it!

thanks brother!! ;) very awesome apreciate it!

7 years ago, this is still useful

Please do more of these

Great tips.. hidden breaks are key.

Your so sick at drums man

Learning different genres and stoked! About this video. I drives me crazy how much i can do in different genres and i get stuck changing things up. Just simply changing the way i think about drums helps me get better.

very helpful .. thankyou josh :D

Found this so helpful for learning to play Adrian from At The Gates parts from Slaughter of the Soul. Cheers dude!

I thought I was about to hear some epic one drop, reggae beat LMAO. Nice work.

Thanks for sharing dude :D

60fps?! Your videos are looking clean as ever man, keep on keepin' on!

Didn't understand a skank beat until now, thanks man

Good advice Josh! I figured out it was the bass drum running the beat also. I also figured out to go to the bell or go to china or crash to ride the swell of the crash with slower hand motions if my wrist gets tired. Or break my right hand down to 8th notes or quarter notes. What ever gives my left hand a break! Love your your channel Bro!

This is very helpful, I've always had trouble with these, one of the problems I have is maintaining speed on the ride or hi-hat.

The Moeller method, Moeller technique or whipping technique is a percussive stroke method that combines a variety of techniques with the goal of improving hand speed, power, and control while offering the flexibility to add accented notes at will. The method has been perceived in the drumming community as a secret method. It is considered difficult to learn and no consensus has been reached as to what this technique actually consists of... thank you once again Josh understanding how to incorporate two notes on a single stroke , down & up shows me a way to save time in making another stroke down....

Mind blown

love your vids. makes me want to buy a kit!

one of best drummers on the world.

Just watched the after you advised me to after the new Metallica cover THANKS DUDE Been struggling for soo long with this. Now I can finally play more Metalcore songs because they use this beat soon much, THANKS!

very usefull mate,thanks ;)

Muchas Gracias Bro!!!! La manera que presentas el enfoque para entender y tocar este ritmo, solucionó un problema que no podía solucionar durante años, otra vez Muchas Gracias, suerte y bendiciones, sigue así eres un músico increíble, atentamente Rogelio Durán

Also known as the Polka Bay Area

so useful, thanks you so much because now I learn so many tricks and its more easier to me play skank beat, greetings from Chile, YOU ARE FUCKING AMAZING!!

This was a really helpful video and couldn't agree more with what you said during the 6- 8 minutes. the same applies to blast beats for example (that is really just a "doubled" skank beat)... I know a lot of people try to learn to sync for example right hand with right foot in the beginning, and then have the left hand fill the gaps in between. What I found way more useful is, that you start with 16th on the snare, again locking right hand and right foot (or also left foot if you play with both on kick) and then let loose the right hand and play 8ths on hi-hat or ride... then you go into the next "level" so to speak, maintaining alternating feet and left hand 8ths on the snare and just applying accents to all kind of cymbals you want with the right hand... straight 8ths of the blasts, but also 4th notes, triplets, whatever comes to your mind... then try finding back into the 16th single stroke roll on the snare or the 8th between LH on snare and RH on ride or hi-hat. It is tricky, but helps to stay in the beat, while isolating this "ground" beat while playing other stuff with your right hand on toms or cymbals.

Thanks for explaining this mate. It makes a lot more sense and has given me quite a lot to think about for the next time I pick up a set of sticks. Cheers mate. Congrats on making 90k + subs too. I remember I started following you when there was only just under 10 thousand of us. Well done. Oh yeah, still waiting for Killing Fields / Demanufacture though 😀

Hey ya bud? Yeah, yeah ha, realize that I'm on the late freight with this how to vid. I am such a rookie drummer and I take tools from anywhere I can. Your advice to this novice is so cherished my friend. I thank you!

more of these!

do a video on tuning ur kit

fuck yes you fixed that particular problem in my drumming

I feel like my comment is what made you do this video and I'm truly honored. And by the way, I just noticed that it was an odd technique but it worked. Rock on, man!! \m/

Thanks, very helpful! Please, tell what is your cymbal set in this very video. Thanks again!

Thank you.

Very well explained Josh, you should seriously think about teaching!

I think this "whole-counts" ride cymbal or hi-hat method is what I need to perfect this beat at speed. I think my pedal's fixed radius cam also has a lot to do with a disconnect from the bass part as well; I just have the basic Pearl P-121TW but I'm going to increase my footboard height tonight and see if that helps reduce this dead-zone that I'm feeling from this cam design.

Nice tip

Every drummer having problems with skank beats should watch this video. Subbed bro

Hey Josh,I've only just discovered your channel and have been watching some of your medleys,which are fucking amazing! I would love to see you cover some Cloudkicker stuff at some point.

I didnt know thatJeremy Renner is actually a drummer, I saw him playing with sticks in Avenger 2, but didnt know he has a yotube channel. Congratulations Jeremy, you're not only a great actor but a great drummer as well.

I LOVE THIS..IF anyone has any old drums or practice pads let me kno going threw rough time and cant afford drums..so instead of throwing anything out please let me kno ill take anything..

confusing for me was Fight Fire With Fire back in the days

Nice shirt!

Would you consider doing some megadeth covers???

Can you review on how to play the "BootCamp-Bootycamp-Bootcamp-Bootycamp" Drum beat? Thanks :)

I'd say you did a good job explaining. Could you do a little demonstration for Slaughtered by Pantera some time? I have a hard time following how the paradiddle section goes between the ride and snare. Anyways, keep it up. I really like these tutorials.

I think I'm in the wrong class, but hell, I'm staying 'cause the teacher is bomb!!! . . . btw, TRUST!!! :)

Love this vid as well as your others, I would love to see Children of the Damned soon. Your videos are flawless and I wish you the best of luck!

Those are great tips cause the help you keep the time as well!! Slayer beat \m/ lol!! Shit I would not of known the name either!! We are going to see you on Drumeo someday!!

Josh when you hold your sticks, you should keep your pinky on. It prevents you from like dropping sticks, and keeps the playing tight. But your technique and playing is really good man

thanks for these tips! my band wants me to play a skank beat at 110 bpm... OMG... 100 is already pretty fast phew

9:27 lmao you're good at that

Steve asheim nails them good

You explained the leading kick very well on the Fight Fire With Fire video and that's actually the moment I realized it, but the snare leading is still so damn stuck in my head I still can't play it (on guitar).

You should really cover some Black Breath. Badass band!

When I try the "skank beat" on my drums it sounds so weird.

One question: Do you think its important to use the base while playing fills? Cause I often dont know if its usefull to Keep the beat with the base while doing (16th) fills instead of doing a ,,break"...

i play guitar and i struggle like fuck to keep timing when the kick is leading. the snare is louder and i always follow it it does my head in.

hey josh, the mongo seven cd is selling? i think was a free download

can you do a video about your double pedal tecnique?