Jared is such an amazing teacher. I've never seen a teacher so clear and descriptive about what they're teaching! If he doesn't end up in a big band or teaching pros for thousands, I'll eat my dishwasher.
Jared is such an amazing teacher. I've never seen a teacher so clear and descriptive about what they're teaching! If he doesn't end up in a big band, or teaching pro's for thousands, I'll eat my dishwasher.
I had not been using drags but today I started to. There are all these tiny sounds I hear in drumming I just never know what they are or how to perform them. This technique is now a HUGE one for me and its subtlety is something I've been trying to discover. I found it and I will now try to make it second nature. Thank you Jared and thank the Internet!
I have been playing percussion for twenty years and always played by ear. Now that I'm incorporating some new techniques into my playing (such as the left hand trick Buddy Rich uses) I have found it very helpful to listen to Jared and have learned that even watching him explain techniques I already use can help immensely. This is a great lesson. Thanks Jared, what you're doing is fantastic. Free lessons! You rock!
I can't believe the people who try to critique this awesome drummer, get your own you tube site if your all that, I can't read a lick of music yet there are things I am learning from this man, thanks bro
I have only been playing the drums for about a week while my brother has been playing for a year and with the help of these lessons, I am better than he is at fills because I use the drags. Thanks a lot for doing this.
i think we used to call them ruffs, however they were closed. these drags are pretty open. it sounds good by any name. remind students that drumspeak changes over time and can even vary from coast to coast. for example, i was taught the 'long roll' which can, and has been called a double stroke roll , a buzz roll, a crush roll, thirty second notes. even eighth notes are not called that in music colleges, they are quavers. so, really, music is about communication. as long as people know what you're talking about, it's working. a rose by any other name. you are a good teacher, because you tell students to come up with their own rhythms. don't be suprised when they change the terminology too. god bless
Self taught, never considered trying the diddle/drag in my drum fills. I will definitely try this technique in the future to see how it sounds with my style. -Thanks!
I use drags more when I'm playing marches and whatnot where I only concern myself with the snare. I do use them occasionally in beats, but I hadn't considered using them in fills until now. Excellent lesson!
#4 seems like fun. Just figured out that my right foot can double stroke, and had trouble integrating that into my fills. Thanks for the ideas, Jared. Your lessons are very fun and helpful.
What a great lesson. It is incredibly important to learn this rudimentary technique. In most modern music, we don't hear any of this type of addition to fills. Thanks for a great lesson, man!
I'm completely amazed that there are so many people criticizing this lesson to the point of telling Jared that his stuff "needs work." First of all, he never claims to be the best, and he always, in all his videos, tells us when things are difficult for him. Second, he is TEACHING this stuff, so if he breaks a drag down to a double note, take into account that the people watching are trying to learn. You can't learn if the teacher is blazing through stuff. He did it right.
You may be one of the best drums teacher I have encountered. You really rock! Very clear and easy to learn by your videos. Thanks so much! As for the questions, I have been using this for quite a long time, but never as clear as now after using your technik. I liked very much exercises 4 and 5.
Not something that I've applied consciously before. So it will for sure be a new concept for me to work on incorporating drags. I didnt know the difference between drags and diddles so thanks for sharing that. I liked #3 I think. The one with drags between the hats an kick
nice licks but no matter whether you play them slow or fast, those are not drags in the breaks, simply double notes. Doesn't matter whether its 8ths, 16ths or 32ths, the point about drags is that (as you demonstrate correctly at the start) the main beat (which is ON the beat) is preceded by two grace notes on the other stick just BEFORE the beat. da da DA, da da DA, (or l l R, r r L, etc). In your breaks you are simply substituting 2 x 32ths for one of the 16ths beats of the break.
Great video man! I've been practicing on the drums with all my free time, I've got alot of guitar, bass and piano tracks recorded, and videos like this make it easier for me to pull together a bag of tricks so that I feel like the drum tracks I put down are on par with my other stuff.
Thanks jared, love the series. just wanted to point out one minor mistake....in the first beat of the 4th pattern the floor tom and snare hits should be 32nd notes and the hi-hat/ bass hit should be an 8th note to be written as played. and to answer your questions at the end I already use drags in my fills and main grooves but im definitely going to use a few of the ones you wrote. favorite fill-#3
I used them, I just didn't know what they we're called. But...now I do and I have some new patterns to try out!!! Thank you guys! In these times this not only helps me become a better drummer but also save money.
I've been using drags for a while without really realizing what they were. Going to start practicing this vid to tighten them up and use them more effectively. Favorite had to be number 4.
Just to be clear theirs no criticizing of my earlier post this is a good lesson to learn I was just saying I been there did that I heard this kind of stuff years and years ago. Its more of a natural feel Im not thinking of a rudiment. At least myself and a lot of drummers I know from back then did it that way.
Dear Jared I have recently been watching several of you're lessons on TH-cam recently and have been greatly inspired by some of you're great intriquiuet hi hat teqniques that I've seen you using and was wondering if you would make a lesson of things we can do to help improve are drumming skills in that area. Thank you so much Jared you're the best!
No, diddles are using the same note value. ie Single ParaDIDDLE. They are all the exact same note spacing. Drags are normally double the note value of the specific pattern. Make sense? I do mention it in the video.
This is something drummers who play funk been doing since the 60's I first heard this listening to my brother play his drum kit in the late 60's. I started doing this in the mid 70's when I got in to fusion.. I hope hes not really saying this is new. lol
Thanks for the video. Now i know the word for what i am doing currently. =) I started questioning myself how to make fuller fills and also got into funk music at the same time, so i listened to some fills and figured out how to play them. After that i began playing L R combinations with drags and i will also go into diddle and flam combinations with drags. I just love that rolling feel of the drags. Great video about explaining them!
I am self taught and it amazes me what I taught myself what to do without proper training. I did not know I could do drags and other drum techniques until I watched this video.
I was just told what a drag in class after I asked the instructor to listen an intro to a song drummer Ed Greene played on and he said to me'thats a drag and he has great technique.this is good video too
I know how to use drags (marching snare taught me to do this well at my school) I haven't really fooled around with using them in fills. Thanks for the tips!
I'm using drags in my rolls but i've never seen it in the notes. I've never got a formal drum lesson before. Started filling in drags because it sounded cool at the time. Seem to be 100x harder playing with the notes though. Learning something new.
I didn't know drags could be applied in that way. I always thought of drags as either alternatives to ghost notes, or alternatives to flams. Will be fun to try them in there settings
That exercise at 9:01 sounds a like an exercise we had to learn in marching band called 'Stick Control' Another one you could check out is 'Triplet Diddle' which I'd bet you could find over on snare science.
I use drags all the time. I think they add a little spice to fills. And I really really liked #4. Actually I thought all the exercises were awesome but 4 was definitely my favorite. Going to go use it now :D
I tend to listen to songs, attempt to play them by ear and learn these techniques but have no idea what they're called. So thanks for the practice excises and technical theory terms. :) 4 was sweet. 5 only sounded good at a faster tempo.
Great ideas ! and about your questions, yes, i am allready using those sort of stuff, but you gave me here couple of new ideas. and my favorite from your Drags-Examples... ummm i think #2 and #5.
Jared, I was confused by your terminology. I thought that a "drag" was a double-(grace note)-stroke before an accented tap - but you are using the word "drag" to mean just 2 fast strokes (*without* being followed by a tap). Many thanks for this very informative lesson.
I've listened to them in songs for a while, not completely realised how easy they seem so I'll probably practice them as much as I can, also, although I love triplets, I adore exercise 3 as an intro to a funk song =D
I think we're all talking at cross purposes here, hence the confusion. The traditional rudiments definition of a drag is "Two diddled grace notes before a tap, which is usually accented. e.g. llR rrL" (see Drum Rudiment on Wikipedia). In other words, a flam with a double grace note. That 's the definition I know. But elsewhere in the same article says drags can be doubled up notes, e.g. 2 x 32nd instead of a 16th. Which is what is demo'd in this video I guess.
I love the Intro (from 5-7 sec. on the meter)on the very beginning before you get into the groove. It lasts only 2 seconds but I really dig it. Could you please break it down for me ? I tried to play it but it doesn't sounds quite like when you play it. I probably don't hit the right drum at the right time. Thanks!!!!
My understanding of a drag and indeed the rest of my drumming companions who come from the pipe band drumming community would not refer to those as drags. A drag is a flam where the bottom hand plays a buzz, giving a much tighter and closer sound. My understanding of what you are playing is double notes followed by singles.
Nice video Jared.! for me the best exercise is number 5.! I just have a question, checking the number 4 exercise, I dont know if I´m wrong, but I think that your are making the open hi hat on the "&" of the 1 no in the "a". I feel that like a 16th triplet notes. Please just tell me if I am wrong or I'm missing something. Thanks for your time Jared, your are an amazing drummer.!
Yes Jared, I've done this and it sounds so cool! As for the 5 exercises, #4 is my favorite!👏👏👏 But I must say, all are very nice!!! I'm just partial to making that bass drum purr like a kitten!😉👍😜
4th! is the best; i usually use drag tap and double drag tap combinations on kit, awsome ;) / PS. Jared say few days ago "FDL don't upload video anymore on yt", and now i see one... ;)
Jared is such an amazing teacher. I've never seen a teacher so clear and descriptive about what they're teaching! If he doesn't end up in a big band or teaching pros for thousands, I'll eat my dishwasher.
Jared is such an amazing teacher. I've never seen a teacher so clear and descriptive about what they're teaching! If he doesn't end up in a big band, or teaching pro's for thousands, I'll eat my dishwasher.
I had not been using drags but today I started to. There are all these tiny sounds I hear in drumming I just never know what they are or how to perform them. This technique is now a HUGE one for me and its subtlety is something I've been trying to discover. I found it and I will now try to make it second nature. Thank you Jared and thank the Internet!
People ragging on his techniques and whatnot, all I can say is he's better than me, which qualifies him to teach me.
I have been playing percussion for twenty years and always played by ear. Now that I'm incorporating some new techniques into my playing (such as the left hand trick Buddy Rich uses) I have found it very helpful to listen to Jared and have learned that even watching him explain techniques I already use can help immensely. This is a great lesson. Thanks Jared, what you're doing is fantastic. Free lessons! You rock!
I can't believe the people who try to critique this awesome drummer, get your own you tube site if your all that, I can't read a lick of music yet there are things I am learning from this man, thanks bro
I have only been playing the drums for about a week while my brother has been playing for a year and with the help of these lessons, I am better than he is at fills because I use the drags. Thanks a lot for doing this.
i think we used to call them ruffs, however they were closed. these drags are pretty open. it sounds good by any name. remind students that drumspeak changes over time and can even vary from coast to coast. for example, i was taught the 'long roll' which can, and has been called a double stroke roll , a buzz roll, a crush roll, thirty second notes. even eighth notes are not called that in music colleges, they are quavers. so, really, music is about communication. as long as people know what you're talking about, it's working. a rose by any other name. you are a good teacher, because you tell students to come up with their own rhythms. don't be suprised when they change the terminology too. god bless
Good stuff. I had already used drags in fills, but this has helped me understand how to incorporate them into my drumming a lot better
been incorporating drags in my fills for a little while now, probably a few months. loved #4 rudiments.. sounded beastly!
I think your videos are amazing and you have taught me a lot...and still are teaching me a lot! Thank you!
Self taught, never considered trying the diddle/drag in my drum fills. I will definitely try this technique in the future to see how it sounds with my style. -Thanks!
I use drags more when I'm playing marches and whatnot where I only concern myself with the snare. I do use them occasionally in beats, but I hadn't considered using them in fills until now. Excellent lesson!
We really appreciate your work, thanks for teaching and sharing. Your videos are great and help us A LOT!
#4 seems like fun. Just figured out that my right foot can double stroke, and had trouble integrating that into my fills. Thanks for the ideas, Jared. Your lessons are very fun and helpful.
What a great lesson. It is incredibly important to learn this rudimentary technique. In most modern music, we don't hear any of this type of addition to fills. Thanks for a great lesson, man!
Thanks Jared, I tend to do drags with my right hand (hi-hat arm) but your first exercise will be excellent for developing my left side. Cheers again.
THAT WAS AWESOME!!!! all the excercises are sooooo gooooooood man!!!! keep uploading your lessons here please!!!!!!
I'm completely amazed that there are so many people criticizing this lesson to the point of telling Jared that his stuff "needs work." First of all, he never claims to be the best, and he always, in all his videos, tells us when things are difficult for him. Second, he is TEACHING this stuff, so if he breaks a drag down to a double note, take into account that the people watching are trying to learn. You can't learn if the teacher is blazing through stuff. He did it right.
You may be one of the best drums teacher I have encountered. You really rock!
Very clear and easy to learn by your videos. Thanks so much! As for the questions, I have been using this for quite a long time, but never as clear as now after using your technik. I liked very much exercises 4 and 5.
Not something that I've applied consciously before. So it will for sure be a new concept for me to work on incorporating drags. I didnt know the difference between drags and diddles so thanks for sharing that. I liked #3 I think. The one with drags between the hats an kick
nice licks but no matter whether you play them slow or fast, those are not drags in the breaks, simply double notes. Doesn't matter whether its 8ths, 16ths or 32ths, the point about drags is that (as you demonstrate correctly at the start) the main beat (which is ON the beat) is preceded by two grace notes on the other stick just BEFORE the beat. da da DA, da da DA, (or l l R, r r L, etc). In your breaks you are simply substituting 2 x 32ths for one of the 16ths beats of the break.
Great video man! I've been practicing on the drums with all my free time, I've got alot of guitar, bass and piano tracks recorded, and videos like this make it easier for me to pull together a bag of tricks so that I feel like the drum tracks I put down are on par with my other stuff.
I have been practicing that kind of drag&didle but I never thought that it could be used to develop a drum fill! Thanks a lot for your lesson!!!
Thanks jared, love the series. just wanted to point out one minor mistake....in the first beat of the 4th pattern the floor tom and snare hits should be 32nd notes and the hi-hat/ bass hit should be an 8th note to be written as played. and to answer your questions at the end I already use drags in my fills and main grooves but im definitely going to use a few of the ones you wrote. favorite fill-#3
I'm a beginner drummer and i was using these in my fills without even knowing what they were called! I just knew it sounded good!
I used them, I just didn't know what they we're called. But...now I do and I have some new patterns to try out!!! Thank you guys! In these times this not only helps me become a better drummer but also save money.
I've been using drags for a while without really realizing what they were. Going to start practicing this vid to tighten them up and use them more effectively. Favorite had to be number 4.
mastered on this on hands--adds great texture to my playing and makes things so much more fun. Time to work on feet!
Been using drags but nice to see a video on it to help me clean it up and 5 was beastly
Just to be clear theirs no criticizing of my earlier post this is a good lesson to learn I was just saying I been there did that I heard this kind of stuff years and years ago. Its more of a natural feel Im not thinking of a rudiment. At least myself and a lot of drummers I know from back then did it that way.
Dear Jared I have recently been watching several of you're lessons on TH-cam recently and have been greatly inspired by some of you're great intriquiuet hi hat teqniques that I've seen you using and was wondering if you would make a lesson of things we can do to help improve are drumming skills in that area. Thank you so much Jared you're the best!
No, diddles are using the same note value. ie Single ParaDIDDLE. They are all the exact same note spacing. Drags are normally double the note value of the specific pattern. Make sense? I do mention it in the video.
This is something drummers who play funk been doing since the 60's I first heard this listening to my brother play his drum kit in the late 60's. I started doing this in the mid 70's when I got in to fusion.. I hope hes not really saying this is new. lol
Thanks for the video. Now i know the word for what i am doing currently. =) I started questioning myself how to make fuller fills and also got into funk music at the same time, so i listened to some fills and figured out how to play them. After that i began playing L R combinations with drags and i will also go into diddle and flam combinations with drags. I just love that rolling feel of the drags. Great video about explaining them!
Thank you very much for this video, it help me a lot to get a better idea of how to apply the drags right into my fills!
I am self taught and it amazes me what I taught myself what to do without proper training. I did not know I could do drags and other drum techniques until I watched this video.
I was just told what a drag in class after I asked the instructor to listen an intro to a song drummer Ed Greene played on and he said to me'thats a drag and he has great technique.this is good video too
Love these things. Didn’t know what they were called to look for them to learn how to do them. Now I know! #4 sounding very Bonham-esque.
Im huge into drumline, so drags are something that I just naturally implemented in my set playing
I know how to use drags (marching snare taught me to do this well at my school) I haven't really fooled around with using them in fills. Thanks for the tips!
ever since i'm watching ur videos i'm much better. doing a great job!!!!!
this video definitely made me want to add drags to my fills. #2 is my favorite, but #5 sounds awesome when played fast
That kit sounds awesome
I'm using drags in my rolls but i've never seen it in the notes. I've never got a formal drum lesson before. Started filling in drags because it sounded cool at the time. Seem to be 100x harder playing with the notes though. Learning something new.
he said in a video he gets so into it that he actually over does it sometimes. Its just because he loves the drums so much.
And that's why Jared is with Drumeo x)
I didn't know drags could be applied in that way. I always thought of drags as either alternatives to ghost notes, or alternatives to flams. Will be fun to try them in there settings
Remember a bit of Brann Dailor from Mastadon, lots of fast notes on the snare, all the time... awesome stuff by the way
Very cool. You are the reason I am going to set up a PC and monitor in front of my set.
Fewer times i saw i lesson so diferent and great . Congratulations for your talent and thank's for help-us !!!!
Hey, Thanks for taking the time to share this!!!! Awesome!!!
That exercise at 9:01 sounds a like an exercise we had to learn in marching band called 'Stick Control'
Another one you could check out is 'Triplet Diddle' which I'd bet you could find over on snare science.
Amazing stuff. Will never understand why so many thumbs down.
I use drags all the time. I think they add a little spice to fills. And I really really liked #4. Actually I thought all the exercises were awesome but 4 was definitely my favorite. Going to go use it now :D
Number 5. Interesting new concept. I'll be using these from now on
great lesson! really helped me! love it when there is many exemples...
I tend to listen to songs, attempt to play them by ear and learn these techniques but have no idea what they're called.
So thanks for the practice excises and technical theory terms. :)
4 was sweet. 5 only sounded good at a faster tempo.
Great ideas !
and about your questions, yes, i am allready using those sort of stuff, but you gave me here couple of new ideas.
and my favorite from your Drags-Examples... ummm i think #2 and #5.
It's something I kind of knew but I was having trouble doing it in fills, but I'd never really though to try them with the bass drum like you did.
It's someting new that i am going to work on.
My favorite was namber 2.
Great lesson
Jared, I was confused by your terminology.
I thought that a "drag" was a double-(grace note)-stroke before an accented tap - but you are using the word "drag" to mean just 2 fast strokes (*without* being followed by a tap).
Many thanks for this very informative lesson.
New one coming tomorrow!
I tend to use them in my drum beats, but as a casual drummer, I haven't yet successfully put them into my fills. Neat lesson.
I''ve kinda used em without realizing but i like 4 for feel and 5's just a monster!
well done mate, thangs for all these free lessons
I've listened to them in songs for a while, not completely realised how easy they seem so I'll probably practice them as much as I can, also, although I love triplets, I adore exercise 3 as an intro to a funk song =D
Great video! Thanks jared! You're the best!
I think we're all talking at cross purposes here, hence the confusion. The traditional rudiments definition of a drag is "Two diddled grace notes before a tap, which is usually accented. e.g. llR rrL" (see Drum Rudiment on Wikipedia). In other words, a flam with a double grace note. That 's the definition I know. But elsewhere in the same article says drags can be doubled up notes, e.g. 2 x 32nd instead of a 16th. Which is what is demo'd in this video I guess.
This is a definitely a new concept for me lol im a beginner, and i like number 5 most
That kit sounds awsome!
I love how well you respond to dumb comments!
I love the Intro (from 5-7 sec. on the meter)on the very beginning before you get into the groove. It lasts only 2 seconds but I really dig it. Could you please break it down for me ? I tried to play it but it doesn't sounds quite like when you play it. I probably don't hit the right drum at the right time.
Thanks!!!!
drags are new to me and i think the 4 set sounded the best
My understanding of a drag and indeed the rest of my drumming companions who come from the pipe band drumming community would not refer to those as drags. A drag is a flam where the bottom hand plays a buzz, giving a much tighter and closer sound. My understanding of what you are playing is double notes followed by singles.
Exactly. What he is playing is what I call diddles. Lol
doubles followed by singles could also be triplets. LLR
Not using it yet. Will get it going soon!! Thanx for this!!
I've been using drags for quite a while, but i had no idea it was actually a rudiment!
My favorite was the one with the double kicks. I'll try practicing that some thanks
Yes I figured this out on my own. But I got some new ideas thanks! Favorite was #4
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love them drags, nice examples
Bonham does this on that second snare roll after the fast part in "Fool In The Rain". It rips...
You're welcome from me and the internet also says "you're welcome."
Nice video Jared.! for me the best exercise is number 5.! I just have a question, checking the number 4 exercise, I dont know if I´m wrong, but I think that your are making the open hi hat on the "&" of the 1 no in the "a". I feel that like a 16th triplet notes. Please just tell me if I am wrong or I'm missing something. Thanks for your time Jared, your are an amazing drummer.!
#4 is badass! I need to learn that one.
太好了！youtube的教学资源太丰富了！！
谢谢老师
That's what she said! 😉
Jared you are freaking awesome man! Thannks so much dude!
Awesome as always
You are SUPER clean.
thanks for the great lesson!
#4 became my instant favorite.
bass drum sound very nice!
Am I the only one who finds paradiddles and drags satisfying to play?
Yea I just learned and number 5 was dope
It is a Yamaha Recording custom anniversary kit.
ive actually been using drags! just always thought i was doing diddles.. mostly because thats how i was taught in my high school drumline
Yes Jared, I've done this and it sounds so cool! As for the 5 exercises, #4 is my favorite!👏👏👏 But I must say, all are very nice!!! I'm just partial to making that bass drum purr like a kitten!😉👍😜
Thank you so much, Jared. My question is a bit off-topic: is the intro all triplets? I'm really digging it.
Lets see you doing it better. Go ahead and post a video and show him and all of us how you achieve that control.
4th! is the best; i usually use drag tap and double drag tap combinations on kit, awsome ;) / PS. Jared say few days ago "FDL don't upload video anymore on yt", and now i see one... ;)