I've never had lessons. I wish i had though. I'm learning rudiments 10 years later. I discovered I'm terrible at all of them. I"m going back to square one. Including holding sticks and applying rudiments. I'm trying to break 10 years of bad habits.
In the exact same spot!!! It's working...haha starting to get my 5 stroke and doubles together. Don't know why i waited. Think id convinced myself I couldn't do it.
As a guitarist of many years, ive recently taken up learning how to play drums, and find your channel to be a wealth of incredible information. Many thanks!!!!!!!
Awesome lesson! My humble advice for rudiments is maybe try practicing them with the weak hand lead. Been doing exactly that since the start of 2018, and trust me, everything feels so much easier to play! Actually it's not that tricky at all, dare I say 80% effort for that is mental! :)
Flam Drags!! They helped me immeasurably. If you get them clean, they can really spice up your fills. Secondly, you can play triplets in 3 sets of four, accenting different notes on each set. I dont know if that would properly be called a "grid," but it would look like: Rlr Lrl Rlr Lrl rLr lRl rLr lRl rlR lrL rlR lrL (back to top without missing a beat)
anything thing my drum teacher at uni taught me was going through loops of the different stickings for triplets like rll rll rll rll rlr lrl rlr lrl lrl rlr lrl rlr llr llr llr llr and whatever other permutations you can think of, maybe throwing in some kick as well to get some bonham triplets working in smoothly
Happy New Year Rob! Hope you realize how much you help and inspire average drummers like myself. I'm always working towards becoming above-average and your vids always have great tips and guidelines.
Thanks for putting a more musical twist on every lesson and making em all far more interesting natural and fun to do. When the starving artist in me gets the chance I will be throwing you some support on patreon I do not wanna see these tools disappear!
Rob. Seriously. Best drum lessons on the internet PERIOD. Legend. I just ordered a Maximum Thumpification tee. If anyone sees me wearing it out and about and calls me out on it being your merch... it'll be the best day ever. I APPRECIATE YOU, GUY!
Play guitar bass mandolin violin piano for 25 years almost.. last month I decided to finally get serious and correctly learn some drums. This is a great channel.
I never thought to approach practicing rudiments this way. Definitely will do it from now on. The pad can sometimes trick you into hitting harder than you ought to and this ruins you style on the drums. Thank you very much for this tip, Rob.
Being self taught and playing for 24 years uts hard to go back and learn the correct way of stick finesse and ghost notes. I mean my left hand has the ghost note thing down but my right hand is having a hard time. Thdn my left hand can't keep up with my right hand using the finger technique. This stuff isn't easy to learn after playing it for so many years wrong. Dammit Jim!
Beatdown has got to be the best alias for a drummer I’ve ever heard of. That being said I appreciate you taking the time to teach some of these skills, it has improved my playing dramatically.
Rob, love what you’re doing here. I practice rudiments on the kit a lot and would love it if you would brake down what you are doing on the kit to practice the rudiments you’re perfecting on the pad. Thanks and looking forward to lessons in 2018!
oooh.....a cool thing i learned from Steve Gadd....is to play the paradiddle and displace the accent....from the 1st note as you should......to the 2nd......then the 3rd....then the 4th......back to the 1st note...........very melodic
cool....Accents and Rebounds.......George Stone has a book on this kind of thing......its a must ......watch Joe Morello solos with Dave Brubeck for ultimate inspiration on this stuff. Great job!
I haven't had a kit for four years now. I think i've gotten every possible sound and volume I can out of my practice pad. It's still fun to practice the hell out of rudiments. I'm still working on that double stroke substitution you did in another video.
Did Tony Williams practice on pillows? I know that Dennis Chambers practiced that way. I guess they tried not to rely so much on rebound, just powered the second double into the head. Tony would play the "ritual" and you couldn't tell he was changing rudiments. All all the strokes sounded the same! Those guys have incredible strong sounding chops, obviously.
Rob I stumbled accross your channel and a week later I bought a set. If u see this comment let me know how I did. I got a sonor force 2007 birch 5 piece with 3 200 series boom stands and the 200series hi hAt. Kit came with zildjian zht cymbals ( I know they aren't the best) but I got all that for $450 the kit looks brand new, not a mark on it. Thanks for your response and for making videos
Yes, yes, yes. It is all about the hands. Great advice and exercise. Reminiscent of David Garibaldi’s three level sound concept from “Future Sounds,” and we all know how killers his ghost strokes are with Tower of Power. Stick control is key kids, work those hands.
hi rob, glad you talk about practicing the rudes. Great Job. I was wondering about traditional grip since I've been working on it since I'm a matched grip player. I watched your vid on trad. grip, but wondering if you could demonstrate rim shots with traditional grip.
Knows how too keep it entertaining! My favorite drum teacher on TH-cam. I'm trying to play like he does with least amount of energy and max output.. I'm 57. I'm trying to make all movements. Smooth and drop the sticks on the head of the drum cleanly without any sideways movement . I'm a contractor and this actually helps me hammer in nails into concrete in that if you don't hit the nail. Perfectly square it will go off sideways and just chip the concrete and then you gotta start over. It scan be very frustrating and. Takes a steady hand . Ask any carpet installer about the trouble hammering concrete nails into cheap. Flakey concrete.. cheers goose guys and rock the eff out! Yes haw Elmer effers
As always, such good advice. Hands and dynamics are both so important. I greatly appreciate the communicative gift you have. One open hand exercise I enjoy lately is eliminating the kick. HiHat can be used. Drum on Mr. Rob!
I have to say I been watching these for about a month or so. All I can say is wow. Very well explained, very well thought out. And very well executed!! There are myriads of teaching tools and teachers out there however you speak slow enough where I can watch listen and partake of the exercises all I can say is thank you sir. By the way I’m sure on one of these videos so tell the folks here your cymbal sizes and makes and models. I have not seen that yet. But they sound awesome! Thanks again for your cool teaching your smooth like Luke cage on Netflix!! Haha. Just messing.
Been using the 5 b chop out stick, on a smooth ceramic brick as a pad, trying to get good single strokes with tradition. Too much rebound. So i better stop that. Not at all like a tony snare drum
When I notice I'm getting sloppy I fall back on the rudiments. I usually practice them along with a recording I like. Instead playing along with the song I just play rudiments till my wrists get tired. Then I come here and see what I'm doing wrong! lol
Thank you Rob for sharing your knowledge. I'm a studio owner and am working on my chops for sessions where the artist doesn't have a band, your videos are so succinct and to the point, it's really helping a lot. Thanks again.
Rob, glad I found your channel. Newbie here, my kit I’m getting for Christmas is a Roland V drums kit as acoustic is not an option for me. I’ve self taught on guitar and keyboard since retiring from military and now I want to include drums. Is it ok to practice rudiments on the kit itself, just the snare? Wifey gonna get angry if I have to buy something else😂
The accent pattern on the triplets is exactly the same as the accent pattern on the paradiddles--I thought you were going somewhere with that, like being able to keep the same groove but switching between the two.
Actually been using that ghost note techique keeping very low and accents high ,interesting concept with a really good sound difference,as usual you were dead on the mark Rob
Question please: would you say that the tighter the drum head the more rebound on the stick happens? Reason I ask is it may have more definition on the ghost notes you think?
Happy New Year BeatDown welcome back brother. Thanks for the influence 1st off. I have my UV1 heads and the emad floor tom head is on the way. Me and brother are both ordering Paiste 900's this year. Thank you thank you for everything musically.
I've never had lessons. I wish i had though. I'm learning rudiments 10 years later. I discovered I'm terrible at all of them. I"m going back to square one. Including holding sticks and applying rudiments. I'm trying to break 10 years of bad habits.
Same! Its a great thing.
Amrit Mehta Same here lol, I’m learning so I can play some chops.
They are a pain in the butt and take time to learn.. :(
In the exact same spot!!! It's working...haha starting to get my 5 stroke and doubles together. Don't know why i waited. Think id convinced myself I couldn't do it.
Aaron Pixler ditto
As a guitarist of many years, ive recently taken up learning how to play drums, and find your channel to be a wealth of incredible information. Many thanks!!!!!!!
Every drummer should watch this video, changed my playing massively
Thank you for sharing man I’m starting I only got a drum pad and for now that’s all I need
Awesome lesson! My humble advice for rudiments is maybe try practicing them with the weak hand lead. Been doing exactly that since the start of 2018, and trust me, everything feels so much easier to play! Actually it's not that tricky at all, dare I say 80% effort for that is mental! :)
Thanks for the advice
@@ejfleeks612 likewise
Flam Drags!! They helped me immeasurably. If you get them clean, they can really spice up your fills.
Secondly, you can play triplets in 3 sets of four, accenting different notes on each set. I dont know if that would properly be called a "grid," but it would look like:
Rlr Lrl Rlr Lrl
rLr lRl rLr lRl
rlR lrL rlR lrL (back to top without missing a beat)
Also do that in paradiddles
Thxs for this suggestion
anything thing my drum teacher at uni taught me was going through loops of the different stickings for triplets like
rll rll rll rll
rlr lrl rlr lrl
lrl rlr lrl rlr
llr llr llr llr
and whatever other permutations you can think of, maybe throwing in some kick as well to get some bonham triplets working in smoothly
Your videos are incredibly helpful man..thanks a lot!
Happy New Year Rob! Hope you realize how much you help and inspire average drummers like myself. I'm always working towards becoming above-average and your vids always have great tips and guidelines.
Hey thanks, man. Glad the videos are helping 👊🏽 🙂 🇨🇦
Such great advice thanks Godbless
Oh man this video was on 111,111 views until me. I had to ruin it didn't I? Shiiiiiii
Obrigado homem,sucesso.
Thanks for putting a more musical twist on every lesson and making em all far more interesting natural and fun to do. When the starving artist in me gets the chance I will be throwing you some support on patreon I do not wanna see these tools disappear!
Lars ulrich thumbs downed this video twice..
Thanks for the lesson. Tons of great stuff in ever single video. You're an excellent teacher.
Rob. Seriously. Best drum lessons on the internet PERIOD. Legend. I just ordered a Maximum Thumpification tee. If anyone sees me wearing it out and about and calls me out on it being your merch... it'll be the best day ever. I APPRECIATE YOU, GUY!
Man, you're Yoda on the drums!
Thank you Rob! Very important to know this 🙏🏼
Your awesome bro great in depth explanation keep it up thanks for everything
Play guitar bass mandolin violin piano for 25 years almost.. last month I decided to finally get serious and correctly learn some drums. This is a great channel.
I never thought to approach practicing rudiments this way. Definitely will do it from now on. The pad can sometimes trick you into hitting harder than you ought to and this ruins you style on the drums. Thank you very much for this tip, Rob.
Might just be me but i'm really good at the whole keep the volume at 0 part also thx a lot rob I love the stuff u do keep it up
Being self taught and playing for 24 years uts hard to go back and learn the correct way of stick finesse and ghost notes. I mean my left hand has the ghost note thing down but my right hand is having a hard time. Thdn my left hand can't keep up with my right hand using the finger technique. This stuff isn't easy to learn after playing it for so many years wrong. Dammit Jim!
"And that's why you subscribed to this channel".
Exactly. Thanks!!
yoo what hoops are they? I've got the same kit looks wicked, also how does it affect sound? Cheers
Just subscribed...show me somethn , dude.....*
Thanks for the sub! Stick around, man. Plenty to see round here 🤘🏽🙂
Maybe this year I'll finally be able to do paradiddles at a decent speed, and with dynamics to boot. Looking forward to a great "hands" year.
How are your paradiddles in 2020?
Rob, do leftys reverse the sticking? LRRL?
Thanks for the great tips. Love the vids keep up the good work.
So simple but so important! ❤
Beatdown has got to be the best alias for a drummer I’ve ever heard of. That being said I appreciate you taking the time to teach some of these skills, it has improved my playing dramatically.
Great vids Rob. You have a good way of giving drummers easy practices. You explain and break them down very well. Nice job!
Rob, love what you’re doing here. I practice rudiments on the kit a lot and would love it if you would brake down what you are doing on the kit to practice the rudiments you’re perfecting on the pad. Thanks and looking forward to lessons in 2018!
I never had lessons thank you for your videos
Someone should’ve time stamped this
Who's watching this in 2020😁😁🍂
beautiful kit love yamahas
Thank you so much 🙏 ✌🏽 2021
Ghost note hack!! Thank you!
Hey I like those wooden hoops!
Time to get to work! #loosehands. Rob.....what do you think of this Ahead Practice Pad? th-cam.com/video/CNl60_fF0Ew/w-d-xo.html
You know what, I kinda laughed when I first saw this thing, but I actually dig it. And I'm just nerdy enough to buy one.
What an awesome concept man!!!
Awesome tips🤘🏻🥁
What's is the best order of learning the rudiments? Or does it even matter which order I learn them in? Thank you...
Cliff W just practice them
oooh.....a cool thing i learned from Steve Gadd....is to play the paradiddle and displace the accent....from the 1st note as you should......to the 2nd......then the 3rd....then the 4th......back to the 1st note...........very melodic
cool....Accents and Rebounds.......George Stone has a book on this kind of thing......its a must ......watch Joe Morello solos with Dave Brubeck for ultimate inspiration on this stuff. Great job!
Rob is the real deal!
I haven't had a kit for four years now. I think i've gotten every possible sound and volume I can out of my practice pad. It's still fun to practice the hell out of rudiments. I'm still working on that double stroke substitution you did in another video.
Did Tony Williams practice on pillows? I know that Dennis Chambers practiced that way. I guess they tried not to rely so much on rebound, just powered the second double into the head. Tony would play the "ritual" and you couldn't tell he was changing rudiments. All all the strokes sounded the same! Those guys have incredible strong sounding chops, obviously.
Rob I stumbled accross your channel and a week later I bought a set. If u see this comment let me know how I did. I got a sonor force 2007 birch 5 piece with 3 200 series boom stands and the 200series hi hAt. Kit came with zildjian zht cymbals ( I know they aren't the best) but I got all that for $450 the kit looks brand new, not a mark on it. Thanks for your response and for making videos
You got the best teaching videos out there.. Hope to see para diddle diddles soon. maybe on the kit and snare both hands leading
Gaah you’re so much better than Drumeo! Wish I found you sooner bc your videos are so helpful!
I am now realizing how my accent notes suck. Thanks for this video.
Thank you.
Wow, you are the man, 'the hands man'! ....... Drumming Yoda for sure! Love it
Excellent advice. No one else brings this old rudimentary thing up . No taps rough chops !
Thanks dude! Very helpful. Defintely havent been doing that hahaha . WORK time
Yes, yes, yes. It is all about the hands. Great advice and exercise. Reminiscent of David Garibaldi’s three level sound concept from “Future Sounds,” and we all know how killers his ghost strokes are with Tower of Power. Stick control is key kids, work those hands.
hi rob, glad you talk about practicing the rudes. Great Job. I was wondering about traditional grip since I've been working on it since I'm a matched grip player. I watched your vid on trad. grip, but wondering if you could demonstrate rim shots with traditional grip.
Knows how too keep it entertaining! My favorite drum teacher on TH-cam. I'm trying to play like he does with least amount of energy and max output.. I'm 57. I'm trying to make all movements. Smooth and drop the sticks on the head of the drum cleanly without any sideways movement . I'm a contractor and this actually helps me hammer in nails into concrete in that if you don't hit the nail. Perfectly square it will go off sideways and just chip the concrete and then you gotta start over. It scan be very frustrating and. Takes a steady hand . Ask any carpet installer about the trouble hammering concrete nails into cheap. Flakey concrete.. cheers goose guys and rock the eff out! Yes haw Elmer effers
As always, such good advice. Hands and dynamics are both so important. I greatly appreciate the communicative gift you have.
One open hand exercise I enjoy lately is eliminating the kick. HiHat can be used.
Drum on Mr. Rob!
Excelent !!!
👍🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I have to say I been watching these for about a month or so. All I can say is wow. Very well explained, very well thought out. And very well executed!! There are myriads of teaching tools and teachers out there however you speak slow enough where I can watch listen and partake of the exercises all I can say is thank you sir. By the way I’m sure on one of these videos so tell the folks here your cymbal sizes and makes and models. I have not seen that yet. But they sound awesome! Thanks again for your cool teaching your smooth like Luke cage on Netflix!! Haha. Just messing.
Great lesson - Do you have any existing videos on the Purdie Shuffle and can you explain a regular shuffle?
The intro!, ....really dude! This guy is just to cool with great material ! Thanks as always! Blessings
Great!
hi thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.i had a request ,can you let me know the 5 most important rudiments for hands and feet..God bless you
Been using the 5 b chop out stick, on a smooth ceramic brick as a pad, trying to get good single strokes with tradition. Too much rebound. So i better stop that. Not at all like a tony snare drum
Awesome lesson! Thanks for this...I have always played ghost notes a bit too loud, but I am going to work on this.
When I notice I'm getting sloppy I fall back on the rudiments. I usually practice them along with a recording I like.
Instead playing along with the song I just play rudiments till my wrists get tired. Then I come here and see what
I'm doing wrong! lol
Thank you Rob for sharing your knowledge. I'm a studio owner and am working on my chops for sessions where the artist doesn't have a band, your videos are so succinct and to the point, it's really helping a lot. Thanks again.
Rob, glad I found your channel. Newbie here, my kit I’m getting for Christmas is a Roland V drums kit as acoustic is not an option for me.
I’ve self taught on guitar and keyboard since retiring from military and now I want to include drums.
Is it ok to practice rudiments on the kit itself, just the snare?
Wifey gonna get angry if I have to buy something else😂
Amazing!! Didn’t event image this was possible :)
The accent pattern on the triplets is exactly the same as the accent pattern on the paradiddles--I thought you were going somewhere with that, like being able to keep the same groove but switching between the two.
Actually been using that ghost note techique keeping very low and accents high ,interesting concept with a really good sound difference,as usual you were dead on the mark Rob
Happy new year Rob!🎉🍻 Nice to see you back. Hope you had a great holiday 😜
Hey Bob
I appreciate all your information. I also like how you talk to us, student.
I'm excited about these hand focused videos, uncle Rob!
Can I like this video more than once? Uncle Robbie?
Thanks for this video man. Great stuff!!
Damn you are a musical drummer :) Love it! Every video gives motivation to try that s+++ out :)
Question please: would you say that the tighter the drum head the more rebound on the stick happens? Reason I ask is it may have more definition on the ghost notes you think?
Thanks and looking forward to the new year. My goal is my left hand. I want and need it to be as strong as my right.
Rob, is the dude! Love him & his approach to drum techniques!
Great vids. Really appreciate all you are doing. God Bless.
I suggest some light background music :)
Awesome Video maaan! Very helpful.
Happy New Year BeatDown welcome back brother. Thanks for the influence 1st off. I have my UV1 heads and the emad floor tom head is on the way. Me and brother are both ordering Paiste 900's this year. Thank you thank you for everything musically.
Duuuuuuude. Are you aware that Evans just introduced a new lineup of UV1 kick heads? 😮 Thanks for watching, man 👊🏽 🙂
Rob Brown do a review on the main! 😜🥁👌🏽
Let me know how the emad floor Tom sounds. I was looking at getting one of them....
Helpful advice as usual! Easy to forget just how soft those ghost notes should be.
rob! do you have any videos on building independence? I really would like to see your take on it!
I have to say it looks like the old VicFirth Carlock sticks are still hangin in there.
Sir i m great fan of uf druming plz make video grooves varition
How do those wooden rings on the Tom's hold up against rim shots?
Good rudiment advice, very practical
Don't know if this is pointless to say, but I must. Your setup looks sooooooooooo good.
Hey, little late here, what's the next video after this?
Hey what is that practice pad you are using?
The subscribe wont work, Rob...
Did you soundproof your room?
Nah. I just threw up some foam panels to help soak up some of the reverb for a cleaner sound on the mics.
Ya sound like a "loose" Buddy Rich?
on 351 is that a paradiddle or a five stroke roll