The BEST WAY To PRACTICE RUDIMENTS! - What You Might Not Be Doing 

I've never had lessons. I wish i had though. I'm learning rudiments 10 years later. I discovered I'm terrible at all of them. I"m going back to square one. Including holding sticks and applying rudiments. I'm trying to break 10 years of bad habits.

Rob. Seriously. Best drum lessons on the internet PERIOD. Legend. I just ordered a Maximum Thumpification tee. If anyone sees me wearing it out and about and calls me out on it being your merch... it'll be the best day ever. I APPRECIATE YOU, GUY!

Every drummer should watch this video, changed my playing massively

As a guitarist of many years, ive recently taken up learning how to play drums, and find your channel to be a wealth of incredible information. Many thanks!!!!!!!

Play guitar bass mandolin violin piano for 25 years almost.. last month I decided to finally get serious and correctly learn some drums. This is a great channel.

Thank you for sharing man I’m starting I only got a drum pad and for now that’s all I need

Flam Drags!! They helped me immeasurably. If you get them clean, they can really spice up your fills. Secondly, you can play triplets in 3 sets of four, accenting different notes on each set. I dont know if that would properly be called a "grid," but it would look like: Rlr Lrl Rlr Lrl rLr lRl rLr lRl rlR lrL rlR lrL (back to top without missing a beat)

Awesome lesson! My humble advice for rudiments is maybe try practicing them with the weak hand lead. Been doing exactly that since the start of 2018, and trust me, everything feels so much easier to play! Actually it's not that tricky at all, dare I say 80% effort for that is mental! :)

Thanks for the lesson. Tons of great stuff in ever single video. You're an excellent teacher.

Your videos are incredibly helpful man..thanks a lot!

Great vids Rob. You have a good way of giving drummers easy practices. You explain and break them down very well. Nice job!

Thank you Rob! Very important to know this 🙏🏼

Thanks for the great tips. Love the vids keep up the good work.

Beatdown has got to be the best alias for a drummer I’ve ever heard of. That being said I appreciate you taking the time to teach some of these skills, it has improved my playing dramatically.

Thank you Rob for sharing your knowledge. I'm a studio owner and am working on my chops for sessions where the artist doesn't have a band, your videos are so succinct and to the point, it's really helping a lot. Thanks again.

What an awesome concept man!!!

Knows how too keep it entertaining! My favorite drum teacher on RU-vid. I'm trying to play like he does with least amount of energy and max output.. I'm 57. I'm trying to make all movements. Smooth and drop the sticks on the head of the drum cleanly without any sideways movement . I'm a contractor and this actually helps me hammer in nails into concrete in that if you don't hit the nail. Perfectly square it will go off sideways and just chip the concrete and then you gotta start over. It scan be very frustrating and. Takes a steady hand . Ask any carpet installer about the trouble hammering concrete nails into cheap. Flakey concrete.. cheers goose guys and rock the eff out! Yes haw Elmer effers

Thanks for putting a more musical twist on every lesson and making em all far more interesting natural and fun to do. When the starving artist in me gets the chance I will be throwing you some support on patreon I do not wanna see these tools disappear!

Happy new year Rob!🎉🍻 Nice to see you back. Hope you had a great holiday 😜

I never thought to approach practicing rudiments this way. Definitely will do it from now on. The pad can sometimes trick you into hitting harder than you ought to and this ruins you style on the drums. Thank you very much for this tip, Rob.

Rob, is the dude! Love him & his approach to drum techniques!

Great vids. Really appreciate all you are doing. God Bless.

Awesome lesson! Thanks for this...I have always played ghost notes a bit too loud, but I am going to work on this.

Excellent advice. No one else brings this old rudimentary thing up . No taps rough chops !

Thanks for this video man. Great stuff!!

The intro!, ....really dude! This guy is just to cool with great material ! Thanks as always! Blessings

You are absolutely right Rob!

As always, such good advice. Hands and dynamics are both so important. I greatly appreciate the communicative gift you have. One open hand exercise I enjoy lately is eliminating the kick. HiHat can be used. Drum on Mr. Rob!

Obrigado homem,sucesso.

I'm excited about these hand focused videos, uncle Rob! Can I like this video more than once? Uncle Robbie?

Awesome tips🤘🏻🥁

Happy new year, dude!

Happy New Year Rob! Hope you realize how much you help and inspire average drummers like myself. I'm always working towards becoming above-average and your vids always have great tips and guidelines.

MAN I love this. Great video.

Such great advice thanks Godbless

Rob is the real deal!

Thanks and looking forward to the new year. My goal is my left hand. I want and need it to be as strong as my right.

Hi Rob! It s so great to hear that since once I had a lesson with K Washington and he told me exactly the same thing! Much improvement on articulation and sound!!! Learning a lot from these videos! Looking forward to the next one

Happy New Year my friend!

I haven't had a kit for four years now. I think i've gotten every possible sound and volume I can out of my practice pad. It's still fun to practice the hell out of rudiments. I'm still working on that double stroke substitution you did in another video.

Awesome Video maaan! Very helpful.

Good rudiment advice, very practical

"And that's why you subscribed to this channel". Exactly. Thanks!!

You got the best teaching videos out there.. Hope to see para diddle diddles soon. maybe on the kit and snare both hands leading

Helpful advice as usual! Easy to forget just how soft those ghost notes should be.

Yes, yes, yes. It is all about the hands. Great advice and exercise. Reminiscent of David Garibaldi’s three level sound concept from “Future Sounds,” and we all know how killers his ghost strokes are with Tower of Power. Stick control is key kids, work those hands.

Always appreciate your content man, such an underrated channel!

Hey Rob, I pretty sure this channel is gonna be the best drum channel on RU-vid HANDS DOWN😉. I can't wait to see where this new year leads. RobBrownOnDrums 👊

I have to say I been watching these for about a month or so. All I can say is wow. Very well explained, very well thought out. And very well executed!! There are myriads of teaching tools and teachers out there however you speak slow enough where I can watch listen and partake of the exercises all I can say is thank you sir. By the way I’m sure on one of these videos so tell the folks here your cymbal sizes and makes and models. I have not seen that yet. But they sound awesome! Thanks again for your cool teaching your smooth like Luke cage on Netflix!! Haha. Just messing.

Thank you Mr Brown!

Hey Bob I appreciate all your information. I also like how you talk to us, student.

hi rob, glad you talk about practicing the rudes. Great Job. I was wondering about traditional grip since I've been working on it since I'm a matched grip player. I watched your vid on trad. grip, but wondering if you could demonstrate rim shots with traditional grip.

Amazing!! Didn’t event image this was possible :)

Actually been using that ghost note techique keeping very low and accents high ,interesting concept with a really good sound difference,as usual you were dead on the mark Rob

beautiful kit love yamahas

good job rob !!

nice thanks Rob!

Thanks, Rob !

I never had lessons thank you for your videos

Awesome, thx Bro!

This is a great video! I will be practicing this tonight. Thanks!

Rob, love what you’re doing here. I practice rudiments on the kit a lot and would love it if you would brake down what you are doing on the kit to practice the rudiments you’re perfecting on the pad. Thanks and looking forward to lessons in 2018!

Great! I'm into it

Wow, you are the man, 'the hands man'! ....... Drumming Yoda for sure! Love it

Beautiful !

Don't know if this is pointless to say, but I must. Your setup looks sooooooooooo good.

Thank u Mr Brown 👍

I Love you Channel bro!

Thanks man!

Thanks dude! Very helpful. Defintely havent been doing that hahaha . WORK time

Excellent first video Rob👍 I've been working hard on my ghost notes lately and this could be a great way to improve it. Greetings from Mexico

Damn! That Yamaha set looks awesome!

Damn you are a musical drummer :) Love it! Every video gives motivation to try that s+++ out :)

cool....Accents and Rebounds.......George Stone has a book on this kind of thing......its a must ......watch Joe Morello solos with Dave Brubeck for ultimate inspiration on this stuff. Great job!

oooh.....a cool thing i learned from Steve Gadd....is to play the paradiddle and displace the accent....from the 1st note as you should......to the 2nd......then the 3rd....then the 4th......back to the 1st note...........very melodic

Rob I stumbled accross your channel and a week later I bought a set. If u see this comment let me know how I did. I got a sonor force 2007 birch 5 piece with 3 200 series boom stands and the 200series hi hAt. Kit came with zildjian zht cymbals ( I know they aren't the best) but I got all that for $450 the kit looks brand new, not a mark on it. Thanks for your response and for making videos

Happy New Year BeatDown welcome back brother. Thanks for the influence 1st off. I have my UV1 heads and the emad floor tom head is on the way. Me and brother are both ordering Paiste 900's this year. Thank you thank you for everything musically.

Great lesson - Do you have any existing videos on the Purdie Shuffle and can you explain a regular shuffle?

Thank you.

hi thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.i had a request ,can you let me know the 5 most important rudiments for hands and feet..God bless you

missed you too rob!

rob! do you have any videos on building independence? I really would like to see your take on it!

Thank you so much 🙏 ✌🏽 2021

Gaah you’re so much better than Drumeo! Wish I found you sooner bc your videos are so helpful!

Excelent !!!

Great!

Another great lesson Rob - HNY 2018

Might just be me but i'm really good at the whole keep the volume at 0 part also thx a lot rob I love the stuff u do keep it up

Maybe this year I'll finally be able to do paradiddles at a decent speed, and with dynamics to boot. Looking forward to a great "hands" year.

Rob, glad I found your channel. Newbie here, my kit I’m getting for Christmas is a Roland V drums kit as acoustic is not an option for me. I’ve self taught on guitar and keyboard since retiring from military and now I want to include drums. Is it ok to practice rudiments on the kit itself, just the snare? Wifey gonna get angry if I have to buy something else😂

im so glad because i reall wanna ijnprove

Another great example of how 'less is more' ...its certainly no easy task to build such control, but I'll work on it...thanks again Rob

Ghost note hack!! Thank you!

Great video! I love those stick bags. Nice u have two of them.

Man, you're Yoda on the drums!

Nice sir

All the best for 2018 Rob.Great lesson as usual.Thank you!

yoo what hoops are they? I've got the same kit looks wicked, also how does it affect sound? Cheers

Question please: would you say that the tighter the drum head the more rebound on the stick happens? Reason I ask is it may have more definition on the ghost notes you think?

How do those wooden rings on the Tom's hold up against rim shots?