XpressPads Finger Drumming and What I Find Unique About It
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มี.ค. 2016
- The XpressPads Finger Drumming Course is unique. This video explains why. Check them out at www.xpresspads.com.
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I'm not a drummer, but I really enjoyed playing with a Cajon. It got me playing alternating left-hand right-hand rhythm - keeping the 'ghost' notes going on every beat (LRLRLR etc.) , then adding 'kick', 'snare' with whatever hand was due to hit at that beat. It made the whole groove / syncopation thing so much clearer.
This clever XpressPads technique, using the mirrored pad assignment, does much the same thing. And it's brilliant. Try it!
as someone who plays drums and drums on my MPC1000
i usually do
(bottom left corner) 4 pads =kick and snares
(bottom right corner) 4 pads assortments of hi-hats
(Top left corner) toms and crash
Top right corner percussion etc.
Halfway thru this video, i realized your method is much more efficient
thank you!
Also, I am very excited about this fingerdrumming tutorial!
The tool itself is comfortable to use and even has a bookmark function. All exercises got playable demos.
In the beginning, I felt a bit like being thrown into cold water, but as it later turned out, this was absolutely the right way!
In any case, my beats are no longer sounding programmed and unimaginative, but grooving properly and are more varied than ever!
PLUS: My piano and guitar playing also benefited!
I highly recommend it!!!
I'm really glad you made this video, as a beginner I never thought of the pad in that way
I’ve been doing the course as well, it is more intuitive to me, and so much faster to learn than other layout methods I’ve tried. I also find myself being able to improvise on the spot and keep better time. The only thing I suggest to improve the system is to have 4 different cymbals on top row. Two different crashes for the top corners, and ride bell and ride in the two middle top row. It actually makes more sense to me as a drummer as you would not ever play the same crash cymbal or the ride with both hands. It opens up a lot of variation, and especially sounds great when using the ride with two fingers alternating between the bell and the main ride.
I naively thought that I might have come up with the idea of pad drumming about 3 years ago, but then Googled a bit and ended up finding this same course by mentioned here, XpressPads. You're totally right about the constant alternation of hands being what makes it unique and eventually click. As a drummer it only took me a day to get what you're outlining in your video, and even a friend of mine who couldn't play a real kit to save his life (but hears drum sounds and understands the underlying theory) picked up some stuff shockingly fast. Until I understood that everything needed to have that backbone of RLRLRLRL hand alternation, everything I did was clunky and for "quantized-use only," like using my right hand to keep 16th notes on the hat and my left to add in a kick and snare. Getting anything going that wasn't a simple hip-hop/rap type beat was impossible as well - without alternating the hands I found a huge brick wall very very quickly on what I could play, even though I could play any genre quite well on a real kit.
While there might be some other materials out there on pad drumming, this to me is THE system and by far the most intuitive, and I'm glad to see it getting its fair props on a channel like yours. There's probably going to be some interesting opportunities for "expert" level pad drummers who can play live as time goes on and we move more and more towards digital sounds and whatnot. EZDrummer2 and similar programs sound just like real kits when the touch response is used with skill, and the ability to have a perfect-sounding, plug and play drumkit that could be used in a live or studio situation via an MPD218 or two is quite interesting, I'd think. Programmed drum tracks can have real feel, inflection, and probably go toe-to-toe with the real thing.
Really long comment, but seeing this video has inspired me to fire up the program and make a run through the coursework again. I'm curious - do you use anything like an EZDrummer2 and the pad stuff for in-studio drum tracking, either as demo/scratch track work to be replaced later, or on actual tracks (with non-electronic sounds)?
Got it around the same time Windows 10 came out - did the free upgrade and lost it / started using 2x8 pads but now the Mpc live has came out went back to 4x4 pads ( broke out the mpd 226 ) reordering express pads soon / with that alternating style you never strained or rushed - the whole program made me less like a finger drummer and more like regular drummer / works with any style / speeds up work flow
Alternating fingres (and rarely hands) is a classical piano playing technique. And, as for me, alternating fingers in one hand for hi-hats is easier than using two hands, because you have to control dynamic at the same time. Can you play snare and kick louder than hi-hats, for example? With alternating hands it will be quite hard.
when I first heard about this type of "alternating hands" technique, and how awesome it can sound specifically with samples of real acoustic drums, I imagined how awesome that combo could sound with heavy metal music (I'm a metalhead). That's what inspired me to look for finger drumming covers of heavy metal songs. And they exist! There are some very good heavy metal finger drumming covers out there. It seams like you do have to look a bit hard to find them, but they're certainly out there. This technique of finger drumming is more similar to actually playing drums, compared to pretty much all other finger drumming techniques. This is especially true for playing 16th notes as demonstrated in the video.
thanks. I was wondering about this technique.
Its nearly the end of 2020, when are you going to finish the course
Great video man
Great video!
Hey man! Did you ever resume practising? This video is one of the first that got me interested in xpresspads :)
Wao! thanks for this video, I have the course and no idea how to learn with it.
now I have a better idea how it works
Thanks!
Nice video did you do a second one and was it worth it?
hello mate great vid! this may come across as a stupid question but i was wondering. isit possible to map this to a drum machine designer my own custom set in logic or something like battery 4? geist 2? if so how easy? Thanks again mate.
Hello, i would want to ask you for some help, how do i add sounds or notes to the pads? And which software is the best?
Thanks.
What I do is record/play to a click track with snare on track 1, kick on track 2 and toms on track 3. Then I come back and play high hat on track 4 to recorded tracks 1, 2 &3. It sounds close to a real drummer. It's a great trick but you have to stay in time and groove with click track.
melodics for the win.
Can you share drum presst for Logic ?
Hummm.... when the next video its going to be uploaded ?
Hei yo, i need help. Can you tell me how to connect akai mpd 218 to iphone
I want to play drumpad24 btw
Can you add samples or is it strictly a drum pad????
That what I have but idk how to turn it on RN wtf what should i do lol
bummp*
No matter what method I can not do two handed
So it's 10 months later. How's it going? Are you getting good or what?
Wish I could do some mind-blowing follow up video, but I had to put it on hold shortly after doing this video due to the demands of my other job. However, I think anyone who sticks with it will surely be good in a brief period of time.....at least have all the two fingered drummers beat. I mean... look at the ease...th-cam.com/video/iyK5-29vnRo/w-d-xo.html
That guys does make it look easy. It's his product after all. I'm considering the program.
I meant to ask you. If you don't mind. Can you tell me what the program actually is? I read below in a comment that it's "text-based lessons with audio loops", does that mean you essentially learn to play the audio loops by trial and error or is there video instructions as well? I'm just wondering how it teaches you the actual technique. If that makes sense.
There are no videos. Its an app that you open on your computer, with the lessons listed on the left sorted by difficulty category. There are instructions and photos for each lesson. There is music notation and it instructs you from the outset how to use it. Under each music notation, there is a loop that provides an audio demo of what the pattern sounds like.
Real drummers use both hands to play hi hats with sixteenth notes, unless other wise.