Yes, I run through single and double stroke pyramids at 60bpm from 1/4 notes through to 32nd note subdivisions including 5's and 7's... 15mins in total 8mins up, then 7 back down. Really great for practicing switching between subdivisions.
I’ve also created a few custom click tracks that omit a few clicks at random times throughout the track. Catches you off guard at first but it’s helped my timing a ton since I’m not anticipating when the click gaps will be coming!
Sometimes you can get caught up in trying to play right on the beat every time though, and music is made in the little "imperfections" that we know as feel
yes i noticed years ago if you practice or play to a metronomic click or staccato sound if your hitting the beat dead center the click will disappear . this audio phenomena was mentioned by a previous person who commented the same thing. Brandon said he found a free metronome on google.I wonder why he did not name it 🤷🏻♂️🤔
Hey Brandon, cool video. Another cool thing is to go through "The Table Of Time" with a quarter note click, from Half notes up to 32nd note triplets. Using singles, doubles & single paradiddles, both right hand lead, then left hand lead. The odd numbered subdivisions like 5's, 7's, 9's & 11's really take some concentration, but is worth the effort in learning them.
These are great hacks! I like the last one with creating dead space as a way to do a self check on your time. Also, I've always played around with trying to float around the metroGNOME....it is a simple way to make practice more enjoyable for sure. Great video as always!
I have a two year old that truly has a gift for drumming, and I am not kidding it’s pretty crazy! I am not a musician at all. How do I help him develop his gift?
@@djheyward8147 there's a youtube channel called Wilson world (their son is insanely talented). they've just started a drumming educational website called Drum Hub For Kids, you should check it out for your son :)
Wow. That was pretty great! I've heard about and thought about moving the beat around within the beat, but never considered doing it within the measure. I'll definitely have to try this in performance.
I use knock box (free app) for the last hack, the clicks keep disappearing gradually until it’s completely gone for a few bars (as set by you), and then it’ll come back on gradually. Quite satisfying to hit that 1 spot on after a number of bars of “emptiness” (well, when that happens lol) For hack 5, I usually do it the other way round so it’s something new learned today! I sometimes do pyramids at 60bpm from 1-10 notes per beat. Quite fun. Useful hacks there! Thanks!
I have been building on thr static click idea for a while. There is always a tendacy with practicing to speed up and loose technique. So in my mind static click builds on your technique, which can the be applied to faster tempos.
I've only been playing a few months. I decided to use just my phone app and plugs instead of my IEMs and experiment with relying on the screen flash. More accurately, I'd set my clock, start, then look back every few bars. Even at 90bpm 1/4 pulse, it was telling, and helpful to practice reigning in my tendency to speed up or drag if I start moving around the kit. I use Metronome Beats (android). So far it's great. It does whole screen flash, tempo trainer. You can set the subdivision AND what parts to play as well as the click sound for each. So like only the third note of triplets to lock in a shuffle. You can also manually set audio latency manually for if you're using BT so that the screen and audio will match.
Man I was trying to play a song at 93 bpm it felt really close but not quite natural when you said you could double that I instantly tried it at 186 and it made my drumming much better and it felt much more like it does when we play it live. You helped me get last the robotic part of recording my drums
Hey Brandon, great ideas! I use the static click trick which is quite helpful with the note tree. My faves from your list are displacing the click and using it as a trainer. Plan to use them today! My only addition is at times I'll lower the volume of the click so that if I'm on, it disappears. Unmistakable feedback. Thanks!
Good job ! I think the examples above can become even more challenging when a FILL is played along with time. That is what will show you the inconsistencies. Playing time to 4 quarter notes is not really improving the internal clock nearly as much as playing to a click on "1" or especially on EVERY OTHER BEAT "1" OR every third bar on one.....in other words, playing to 4 quarters is let the metronome play you while playing to only 1 quarter makes THE DRUMMER PLAY THE METRONOME.
There are so many way's you can use a metronome to practice with. Be creative it only will help you become so much better. Its worth to start practicing with a metronome.
That is genius! I was getting really frustrated with like 40, 50, 60 bpm like how the hell do people follow this?! Definitely going to multiply the bpm from now on
Excellent again Drumeo! Can you guys do a video on something like "Staying focused on the time for long periods of time"...he mentioned this in the video. Sort of a staying focused topic. Thanks.
5:03 I've fiddled with that before, sort of. I realized that since I like odd times and polyrhythms, but sometimes like to play to a click, it would be easier to just learn how to play "around" the metronome rather then fiddle with making this big custom click track. There's a "composition", for lack of a better word, that I came up with that's in 11/16, and I would play it to a metronome that hits on every 3rd 16th note; I realize that, just doing that one thing, I've pretty much touched on this whole list.
I set my metronome to click on every 1/8th note and the 1 and 3 are different tones. When I need to play 1/16th notes or triplets I’ll count out loud to get the timing more even. I went from messy to solid almost immediately.
try doing the full table of time 1 - 16ths, using metric modulation!! like play a drum beat at let's say 40-60 bpm then play nonuplets (9s) instead of 8s, so 40/8*9. you're playing at 45 bpm despite the click being set to 40, then do this with 10s, 11s, etc until you get to 16s!! (80 bpm, increments of 5 bpm). it's basically using odd tuplets on a large scale of time, and the bars will be odd, such as 11 having 5 ½ bars instead of 4, (55 bpm instead of 40). I like to use this to gradually speed up/ slow down.
Another trick, if you're using a click in a DAW, is to change the click sound to be a drum sound, like a bass drum or hi-hat sample. Reaper let's you set a sample in the built in metronome and this helps me a lot when recording.
1)slow metronome tempo + forcing your body to feel it natural (changing often the subdivision) 2)DAW often offer a variety of click topper loops that can give a musical twist to the click you have to deal with . Combining these 2 tips you will smash your session without a second tought ;)
Playing to, or with a metronome, is my single biggest challenge learning to improve my drumming. I strongly dislike any machine telling me what to do, like the credit readers at Safeway that bleep at you to hurry you up is so annoying!!!! It seems like a sophisticated metronome with piezoelectric pickups on every drum membrane that feeds back your rhythm in real-time would be a hugely positive improvement, like biofeedback, striving to hit and maintain that sweet spot, could benefit every drummer. In the meantime, I’ll be watching and re-watching this video ;~)
Playing as odd grouping & trainer. On trainer, I have pre built click sequence that goes quarters for 1 min, then whole notes 1 min, then click every 2 bars. Cool challenge written by Inner Clock guy. Spacing his name.
Any recommendations on a trigger/metronome product.....I'm new to the whole concept. I would want something I can practice to but also count me in for gigs as well as something that has triggers for different sounds if they make such a thing??
Ha, the 'static click' thing is something I naturally grew in to because I'm too lazy to change the tempo on my metronome. 120 BPM? Yeah, let's play 16th notes. 150 BPM? Make those quintuplets. 180 BPM? Sextuplets it is! Etc... :-)
Isn't #3 how its supposed to be done? Like all the written out sheet music I know has a bpm set for quarter notes and thats what you set the metronome to.
Yes, I run through single and double stroke pyramids at 60bpm from 1/4 notes through to 32nd note subdivisions including 5's and 7's... 15mins in total 8mins up, then 7 back down. Really great for practicing switching between subdivisions.
I’ve also created a few custom click tracks that omit a few clicks at random times throughout the track. Catches you off guard at first but it’s helped my timing a ton since I’m not anticipating when the click gaps will be coming!
Wow! Could you please share any of that on Google drive?
One thing I learned about practicing timing (thanks to Tony Royster Jr.): How would you know you're hitting exactly on time? You don't hear the click.
Sometimes you can get caught up in trying to play right on the beat every time though, and music is made in the little "imperfections" that we know as feel
Hard hack
yes i noticed years ago if you practice or play to a metronomic click or staccato sound if your hitting the beat dead center the click will disappear . this audio phenomena was mentioned by a previous person who commented the same thing.
Brandon said he found a free metronome on google.I wonder why he did not name it 🤷🏻♂️🤔
Hey Brandon, cool video. Another cool thing is to go through "The Table Of Time" with a quarter note click, from Half notes up to 32nd note triplets. Using singles, doubles & single paradiddles, both right hand lead, then left hand lead. The odd numbered subdivisions like 5's, 7's, 9's & 11's really take some concentration, but is worth the effort in learning them.
Great exercise. Learned this one from Morello’s book!
Great tips... THKS from Panama.
Hi Drumeo you guys have helped me rock so much better.
🤘
Best presenter/speaker in all of Drumeo!
You're too kind!
These are great hacks! I like the last one with creating dead space as a way to do a self check on your time. Also, I've always played around with trying to float around the metroGNOME....it is a simple way to make practice more enjoyable for sure. Great video as always!
Good stuff! I was working on metronome practice with one of my private students the other day, and I used some of these same ideas.
Brandon thanks again for suggesting these great tips🔥
Love from india❤️🎉
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for all of your helpful videos. They sure have helped me as a percussionist
I do the click trainer exercises with my students. Really helps build their confidence.
Nice! Such a great exercise for sure.
I have a two year old that truly has a gift for drumming, and I am not kidding it’s pretty crazy! I am not a musician at all. How do I help him develop his gift?
@@djheyward8147 there's a youtube channel called Wilson world (their son is insanely talented).
they've just started a drumming educational website called Drum Hub For Kids, you should check it out for your son :)
@@ruthpine-apple9860 thanks
Wow. That was pretty great! I've heard about and thought about moving the beat around within the beat, but never considered doing it within the measure. I'll definitely have to try this in performance.
Great video! This will add a new dimension to my practice sessions.
The odd timing was particularly interesting, but all if them are great methods!
Awesome!
I use knock box (free app) for the last hack, the clicks keep disappearing gradually until it’s completely gone for a few bars (as set by you), and then it’ll come back on gradually. Quite satisfying to hit that 1 spot on after a number of bars of “emptiness” (well, when that happens lol)
For hack 5, I usually do it the other way round so it’s something new learned today!
I sometimes do pyramids at 60bpm from 1-10 notes per beat. Quite fun.
Useful hacks there! Thanks!
I have been building on thr static click idea for a while. There is always a tendacy with practicing to speed up and loose technique. So in my mind static click builds on your technique, which can the be applied to faster tempos.
I like how confident you are now in these lessons. :D And can totally see that your skill has improved greatly! Thanks for the lesson!
Thank you so much!
Bro. Thank you. This filled in some practice gaps/problems I've been having.
I've used the 3rd hack a lot of times. It helps a lot.
I've only been playing a few months. I decided to use just my phone app and plugs instead of my IEMs and experiment with relying on the screen flash. More accurately, I'd set my clock, start, then look back every few bars. Even at 90bpm 1/4 pulse, it was telling, and helpful to practice reigning in my tendency to speed up or drag if I start moving around the kit. I use Metronome Beats (android). So far it's great. It does whole screen flash, tempo trainer. You can set the subdivision AND what parts to play as well as the click sound for each. So like only the third note of triplets to lock in a shuffle. You can also manually set audio latency manually for if you're using BT so that the screen and audio will match.
Loved the video! You're awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love the last hack....so cool
Could you please make a separate 10 minute video about "Interpret the click as a grouping". I think it need a bit more love :) Thanks!
Great, helpful advice . . . as always from Drumeo and Brandon Toews. Thank you!!!
Thankyou sooooooo much! I needed this so bad!
These were useful hacks. The static one was really interesting.
Man I was trying to play a song at 93 bpm it felt really close but not quite natural when you said you could double that I instantly tried it at 186 and it made my drumming much better and it felt much more like it does when we play it live. You helped me get last the robotic part of recording my drums
This was very clear, informative and practical. Thank you!
Hey Brandon, great ideas! I use the static click trick which is quite helpful with the note tree. My faves from your list are displacing the click and using it as a trainer. Plan to use them today! My only addition is at times I'll lower the volume of the click so that if I'm on, it disappears. Unmistakable feedback. Thanks!
Awesome!!
Thanks a lot parce, this video make me have some ideas to practice my timming
Great exercises, Brandon!
Thanks, Brett!
Good job ! I think the examples above can become even more challenging when a FILL is played along with time. That is what will show you the inconsistencies.
Playing time to 4 quarter notes is not really improving the internal clock nearly as much as playing to a click on "1" or especially on EVERY OTHER BEAT "1" OR every third bar on one.....in other words, playing to 4 quarters is let the metronome play you while playing to only 1 quarter makes THE DRUMMER PLAY THE METRONOME.
Omg this is soo helpful 😎🔥
Thanks a lot drumeo , it helped me a lot with 8th note triplets 🔥
Great video, beat one every other measure is a great one too
Super !!!!!! Merci !!!!! ( Coup de coeur pour le N° 4 ) !!!!
Very useful, thank you so much,this is a life changer.
Awesome video Brandon. This will totally add a new dimension to my practice sessions and make them more fun. Thank's ....
Awesome!
Thanks 👍🥁💯🎼
1. Displacement
2. Sub 50 bpm
3. Counting out loud
It's like magic. Combining the 3 is super saiyan training
That was very informative! Thank you!
There are so many way's you can use a metronome to practice with. Be creative it only will help you become so much better. Its worth to start practicing with a metronome.
Thanks for rocking the Low Boy, Brandon!
My pleasure! The Low Boy is a game-changer.
I liked the implied metric modulation hack and I practice with gap click and I use it on the off beats. Really cool lesson. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
That is genius! I was getting really frustrated with like 40, 50, 60 bpm like how the hell do people follow this?! Definitely going to multiply the bpm from now on
Awesome!
These are really awesome!
Excellent again Drumeo! Can you guys do a video on something like "Staying focused on the time for long periods of time"...he mentioned this in the video. Sort of a staying focused topic. Thanks.
Good suggestion. Thanks!
Your lessons are always awesome sir .....
Tks a lot for all your lecture 😃
And love from India ❤️
5:03 I've fiddled with that before, sort of. I realized that since I like odd times and polyrhythms, but sometimes like to play to a click, it would be easier to just learn how to play "around" the metronome rather then fiddle with making this big custom click track. There's a "composition", for lack of a better word, that I came up with that's in 11/16, and I would play it to a metronome that hits on every 3rd 16th note; I realize that, just doing that one thing, I've pretty much touched on this whole list.
I set my metronome to click on every 1/8th note and the 1 and 3 are different tones. When I need to play 1/16th notes or triplets I’ll count out loud to get the timing more even. I went from messy to solid almost immediately.
try doing the full table of time 1 - 16ths, using metric modulation!! like play a drum beat at let's say 40-60 bpm then play nonuplets (9s) instead of 8s, so 40/8*9. you're playing at 45 bpm despite the click being set to 40, then do this with 10s, 11s, etc until you get to 16s!! (80 bpm, increments of 5 bpm).
it's basically using odd tuplets on a large scale of time, and the bars will be odd, such as 11 having 5 ½ bars instead of 4, (55 bpm instead of 40). I like to use this to gradually speed up/ slow down.
Thank you it's more helpful👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks for the advice
Cool exercises! I also use a metronome app like PolyNome which can drop out the click for a random amount of bars to test my internal clock :)
Thanks!
Wow! Shoutout to Brandon Toews!
But srsly, interpreting the click and reading the grouping out loud is such an amazing challenge. Check it out 7:45 !!
Thank you!!
I'd like to see this again with the click being cancelled out by the player that would be a great demonstration of professional time keeping.
Wow amazing....thanxs a lot....
Another trick, if you're using a click in a DAW, is to change the click sound to be a drum sound, like a bass drum or hi-hat sample. Reaper let's you set a sample in the built in metronome and this helps me a lot when recording.
What's the ride you're using on the right? It sounds gorgeous.
22” Istanbul Agop Traditional Original Ride!
Thank you
This is great
1)slow metronome tempo + forcing your body to feel it natural (changing often the subdivision)
2)DAW often offer a variety of click topper loops that can give a musical twist to the click you have to deal with .
Combining these 2 tips you will smash your session without a second tought ;)
I use #3 pretty much everytime I'm on the kit.. I really gotta do more with practicing to clicks though. I struggle going below like 80 bpm >.
great video
Playing to, or with a metronome, is my single biggest challenge learning to improve my drumming. I strongly dislike any machine telling me what to do, like the credit readers at Safeway that bleep at you to hurry you up is so annoying!!!! It seems like a sophisticated metronome with piezoelectric pickups on every drum membrane that feeds back your rhythm in real-time would be a hugely positive improvement, like biofeedback, striving to hit and maintain that sweet spot, could benefit every drummer. In the meantime, I’ll be watching and re-watching this video ;~)
Playing as odd grouping & trainer. On trainer, I have pre built click sequence that goes quarters for 1 min, then whole notes 1 min, then click every 2 bars. Cool challenge written by Inner Clock guy. Spacing his name.
This is badass as always! Thank you! I love the #4 and #6 the most, but all of this are supercool!
Very nice bro new to me
i love you man
nice
Any recommendations on a trigger/metronome product.....I'm new to the whole concept. I would want something I can practice to but also count me in for gigs as well as something that has triggers for different sounds if they make such a thing??
Solid
What kind of metronom used? Nice interface
Just the free metronome on Google!
This is low key some gold info. people just dont know how to take it lol. (the comments)
Thanks!!
i do use a static click track
Hi Drumeo please which metronome do you use
This is the free metronome found on Google!
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🎶🎵🎶🥁🇵🇷✌✌ love it !!!!!
This 6 Metronome Hacks That Will Changed my Drumming
can I have the link on that metronome in Google big help thanks
which ride is he using?
22” Traditional Original Ride from Istanbul Agop
Ha, the 'static click' thing is something I naturally grew in to because I'm too lazy to change the tempo on my metronome. 120 BPM? Yeah, let's play 16th notes. 150 BPM? Make those quintuplets. 180 BPM? Sextuplets it is! Etc... :-)
What is the best free metronome app in your opinion? I'm not really satisfied with those I've found, i would appreciate some help :)
I've been using the MetroTime app and I quite like it :).
As a non drummer, the intro kind of lined up with part of wanted dead or alive
that right
Just realized that I have the same glasses as that guy
👊🏻👊🏻
So nobody gone talk about how good that 200$ brand new xist dark crash sounds! Istanbul xist series craps on alot of companies and they're cheap!
I LOVE the Xist dry darks. Never heard anything like them.
Wow!!I should be a teacher because I've always practice with the metronome!! Thanks for confirming what I already know!!👍
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Yes I do
Don't they have hybrid metronomes with the ands
Isn't #3 how its supposed to be done? Like all the written out sheet music I know has a bpm set for quarter notes and thats what you set the metronome to.
Can someone from Drumeo post a tutorial on how to play the beat from DIE YOUNG by Black Sabbath?!
4:12 isn’t it just a ladder exercise?
Subdivision Tree
@@AaronLevyDrums YES! Thanks, man!
My brain broke in hack#4
Let me save you 12 minutes.
Metronome hack: Play to your metronome
🙏
Another good tip: use a song as a tempo and just improvise
I really dislike the word "hack" to mean trick. You're not hacking anything :')
I actually practice to playing to a static click track there might be more let me watch😂
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