Good video. One thing which I think would help viewers is to simply put the exercise on the screen and immediately demonstrate it. That way, that will save you time from having to explain it. Most viewers will be able to figure it out and can replay that portion if they missed something.
Billy Cobham and Tony Williams were insanely fast back in the day. Since then the bar has been getting higher and higher. I don't really need to get to Riccardo Merlini-type speed, but any improvement helps.
Great information, Gabe. Keep the great information coming! I loved listening to your drumming when you were in Sauce and my band, Brass Fly, opened for you way back in the day
Perhaps not the fastest hands, but there’s a video of Dennis Chambers doing crossover septuplets with quarter note at 150 BPM. The fact that he moves his hands and arms all over the kit very clean at that speed is quite impressive!!!
I haven't addressed that topic on RU-vid in a while. I have a whole and much better filmed course on it on DtumTipTuesday.com the trailer for that is here: www.drumtiptuesday.com/reading-coordination/videos/reading-coordination-trailer I do have one embarrassingly old video on YT that does talk about it though. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pjIE13CqwaE.html.
On drum set I use a 5B but in this video, and usually for drum pad work I am using a drum line sized stick, currently the Vic Firth (I think they're called) "M-Dawgs"
It's actually very subjective. For instance, if we're talking about snare drum hands, for a drum set player mine are pretty fast. However, most drummers who do the whole linear thing much faster than me at that particular skill set. For a bench mark, as a new drummer, if you can perform that sextuplet exercise in this video at 120 BPM you're doing good.
easy answer: the student level is when you try to reach a number at the metronome. Professional is when you can play any tempo that a song commands. And the highest level of mastery is when you can impress all the other drummers. 😉
