The D-Beat Drum Rhythm & How To Play It...A Definitive Guide. 

Technique displayed here is a d-beat master class. Makes it sound weightless yet the heaviest beat ever.

The beat of the universe! Always flowing yet chaotic.

Being a fast player (skate punk) I use the D-Beat as an energy saver live, it’s basically the same beat as the skate punk beat with less kick variations and easier on the wrist. I learned the skate punk beat first and thought to myself there’s gotta be a less tiring way to play this. I didn’t realize my “lazier” version was a D Beat till later 😆

The world needs more "Dis" bands. Bones and Kawakami forever ! Discharge, The Varukers, GISM, Disclose, Anti-Cimex, Avskum and Rattus are life. 👊🏻👊🏻

I listen to a lot of different styles of punk and extreme metal. I know the fastest drummers in the world are death metal/grindcore drummers. But even though the bpms in crust/d-beat are never as high as those metal genres, those bands just don't feel as fast as d-beat bands. I remember the day I bought Tragedy's self-titled album. When the drums kicked in on "The Point of No Return" I was just in awe at how fast it sounded. It's the rhythm of a horse sprinting. I was drummer in my younger days and even though I knew what Paul Burdette was doing, it still sounded so chaotic and organic. I love grind and death metal but there's a machine-like quality to the drumming that keeps it from feeling fast. There's a lack of momentum. Anyway, great vid. Btw: if you get into running, careful listening to d-beat while running. Almost died subconsciously trying to run with the momentum of those songs.

Best explanation so far i've been able find on youtube about this iconic beat, fuck i love fundamentals.

He makes it look so simple.

its interesting how the bass drum pattern almost turns into a triplet at higher speeds

Thanks for counting it out, Spike. Very helpful. Great explanation, demo and presentation. And your drums sound good!

Please bring this channel back. A real punk rocker, master drummer, gentleman and scholar.

Your passion always motivates a lot of artist and fans all over the world.

Thank you, really helpful even if I play only on drum machine. Discharge and GBH are my favs since then

Cheers! Trying to this drummer I'm currently working with to play Dbeat.

Why am I just discovering this beat I've known about all other patterns.

Spike, you nailed it again. Excellent.

The ride bell included sounds so good

I love the way you say discharge lol. Dischurch. Thanks for the lesson. Gonna pick up drumming again soon

The best video about d-beat drumming that I have seen. Thanks!

D beat creates a completely different groove and feel to other punk beats. “Modern” punk beats seem to push the song forward only, whereas d beat creates a tornado of groove that goes back and forth. And what the guitars and bass can do on top of that is simply beautiful.

Love this Spike ... cheers Bud (Gav R.)

Excellent, and perfectly explained Spike. 👏🏻😃🥁🔥🎶

That was a great , will try to follow this one as well for improving my dbeat drumming

Thanks Spike, keep it up 👍

Excellent video Spike! Looking forward to our lesson tomorrow!

Ah man this was perfect. I understood most of that on my own already but it's great to have some proper explanations from an actual d-beat specialist. Can't wait for your next video on the more technical stuff, i'm a songwriter first and drummer... fourth, I'm looking forward to see what you have to say on d-beat songwriting.

absolutely amazing video right here. pretty much everything on Fuck Peaceville by Doom is my personal fav style. I definitely prefer the choppy/crash cymbals follow the bass drum vibe, gives it so much more punch.

Well done. ✌🏼

Super helpful, by ear I was doing the right hand eighth notes and it wasn’t sounding right, doing it the simpler way gives it the necessary feel, cheers xx

Cant wait for this

For whatever reason, this is a drum beat which I struggle to play and, after all this time, I've realised I'm playing it with quarter notes on the right hand. Going to try the pure beat and get it up to 180bpm. Thanks for such a comprehensive lesson!

You are a d-beat monster my friend!!!!

Nice video man! Great to see that right foot in the video.

Awesome, master class, Thank you 🙏

D-Beat 🔥

Killer D-Beat Drumming guide! Thanks a lot!

awesome...great drumming,,,,GBH too!

thank you very much!

Great video, thank you very much, looking forward for the next one!

Awesome lesson ! Finally, someone who broke it down for slow learners like me. 😂 Greatly appreciated!

3:58 i love this beat

Best vid about d-beat and variations so far!

I always played it, with straight 1/4 on my ride hand. But, will try to learn it with my ride hand following the kick. That's for the video.

From 200+ bpm d-beat is getting very close to sort of a polyrhythm (eighth note triplets with right hand and foot, and eighth notes with left hand). And it also becomes almost an entirety of a "From Enslavement To Obliteration" album :D

Very nice thank you

Thank you very much!

Cool video

Yeeeeaaah! thank you man!

When u gave that example with the floor tom that reminded so much of a song by the exploited ahah

Love the lesson! Love the hair just as much haha!!! Rock on!!!!!!

Tez started it and Gary Malone made it HUGE! Discharge are #1. JJ rules! Cal is Classic!

awesome tutorial, thanks heaps!!!...btw I play with Common Enemy from Australia

Just come across ya channel Spike. Brilliant man! I know how hard it is to record drums well, gd job mate.

If you want a full of dbeat band try a greek band named bandaloup. I would love a foreigner to try greek punk!

Thanks for this man!!!!

I wish I had this video when I was a kid

XX dude , from Venezuela

I learnt the d-beat with the quarter note ride cymbal pattern, but I’ll admit the loping style of the “trad” has its charms 😁 Excellent lesson too, Spike...you get to the meat and potatoes (or veggie burger and potatoes for us vegetarians!) with plenty of context and content

I love you!

Great video! Cheers!

A D-Beat Doctor!

Thank you! I agree with you all the way. :)

Master class ' love the cymbal motion Ripped u off so much mate 😂 Great feel

There’s a few variations on this beat, I like this one, its different than a lot of people play it

thanksss

I don't own a drum set but I want to air drum d beats to Disfear, All Pigs Must Die, and Black Breath. The independence with the cymbals is so hard right now. Still trying

The only one in youtube who plays this right!!! Other drummers play this groove quantized with all the kicks in the "correct" place but it sucks the magic out of the d beat

You're an awesome drummer.

Dave Lombardo 200bpm

The best beat ever

Don’t even play drums but I keep watching this video a few times every year 😂

Master

This was really informative! Was the slight hand pattern variation, where the last crash cymbal hit landed on beat 4 (instead of the "and" of 3), a common pattern back in the day? It seems really common these days.

Thanks for this super helpful video! It's really fun to revisit it along my drumming journey (1 year so far) and be able to play faster and more of the variations each time. I'm curious why you choose to play the open hi-hat on the 4 (around 6:16ish) with your right hand since it has to travel so far across the kit (vs the left, which is close by on the snare). Thanks!

@Spike T Smith I prefer to have my drums up close and facing a wall when I record for an album. Is there a certain reason the kit in this video is set up where it is?

Much better explanation than D-Beat Dad one. I want to play D-Beat so badly now

Cool photo from Wardance,rip Andy....

You got a modern rock or punk or whatever drum patterns book out to buy? Couldn't find one. Because these vids are great. Most of my patterns books are jazz, funk/fusion, reggae, and disco/dance and not much rock stuff.

Hey... Thanks for sharing this. Informative... I am trying It, but I don't get exactly the same sound, which means I am not getting exactly right right now... I will keep practicing... Cheers!

good songs, what is the one that plays at the beginning and at the end of the video? greetings and rock and roll!!

Fantastic video! I was looking for info on the derivative (I assume, but maybe it actually came first) beat where you play the kick on the 1, 3, and 3& in a more straightforward fashion. Is there a name for this or is it just a generic punk beat?

Cheers this is fucking rad!

Hey man great video , I've been playing for about a year and a half now but I tend to lean forward alot and its making my back hurt, any tips on keeping a good posture while jamming out 🤘

I'm working on a Celtic Punk metal band and as the drummer I wanna get D-Beat right and add a Irish/ Celtic favour like a Baudhrán

I wanna hear this guys bands

This guy looks exactly like his name

Is there any double bass drum d-beat?

Okay question: is my YT broken or my metronome because counting 4s and thusly 2s and 4s, my metronome shows the first full example in discharge tempo as being around 220 instead of 150?

Do you rimshot the snare? I tend to think a center hit snare sounds better, more full While the rimshot "deadens" the snare and make it just more attacky Good options, but I tend to prefer "center shots" without the rim

Ah so _this_ is d-beat! I knew it already just not the name. Good modern example of this beat is in quite a few of the tunes on 'life without pain is a fucking fantasy' by Zombie Apocalypse.

I like the way he said “DisChAge”

My favorite way of doing this beat is steady notes on right hand

Great video, very informative! It would be great to have such a tutorial on "How to play guitar on D-Beat". Any ideas?

I'm a drummer by necessity. Bass player firstly. I sometimes like to play with others but I don't music lingo. We call the traditional DBEAt the sticky one and the quarter note one the slick. Sticky is the only way to go

Would love your opinion on this since you really got that beat down. Some, myself included, believe the d-beat is technically a four against three polyrhythm with the kick going 3/4 triplets against 4/4 from the snare. That‘s why following the kick pattern on the cymbals makes it easier to not drop out of the triplet feel. Sloppily playing the kick on 2and and 3and kinda gets you there somehow but by handling it as a poly it even sounds right if you program it in audio software. Nonsense?

is it possible to do the bass drum non stop? I wonder how it would sound has anyone ever done this?

Watching just to confirm that I remember how to play a d beat 😂

tu esteve quase do lado certo. é foda ser oi!...

The D-beat sounds like the drumbeat to Helpless by Diamondhead

as a super newbie drummer that doesn't own their own kit how hard is this to learn? I've wanted to learn it after being to too many bad uk hardcore shows and the redeeming saviours were often a dbeat band who headlined

180 bpm with open hihat 😁 packs the most power