Yamaha should really sponsor you because your video's finally pushed me (never even looked at a drum) over the edge to finally purchase one. (I suspect that I may not be alone here..) So.... Now that we are all sitting here with our brand new Yamaha drum machines how would you advise us to get a started with some kind of basic practice regime? For instance there are a few covers that I have been working on with an 8 string guitar (some of which include tapping) and I would like to Isolate the drums of said covers by learning how to play them and get them on a backing track to play against. Would it be better to learn primarily by ear and or go the more traditional (hard yard) route of a more formal approach? In summary what would be your philosophy on how to possibly structure some kind of beginner road map for rhythmless numpties like myself.
I would also state that your fingerdrumming of the Yamaha FGDP is superior to any of Yamaha's official promotion videos on TH-cam. Is the reason why you didn't buy thet FGDP-50 that you just want to play it directly out of the box without editing or making custom kits?
Thanks a bunch, yeah it's up to them what they choose to promote. I didn't buy the 50 because honestly I was like well, maybe I'll use the hundred bucks for something else... Also, I kind of saw that it already has like two star buttons for selecting between two kits that you save in the memory... I primarily only use two kits anyway, more of a modern fusion thing, and then more of a jazz kit... So it just seemed like this had all the features that I needed... I was very pleasantly surprised that the thing was already set up almost perfectly, well to me, it is set up perfectly... I was expecting to have to do a bunch of modifications....
@@FusionFingerDrum Ok - that's what I thought. You are using it as a musician and artist to play rather than using alle the time on tweeking all kinds of technical things. I think that the reason why you haven't been promoted or noticed is because your videos are quite new and the models were released last September :-).
I accidentally edited out the "steam machine" segment, lol, well I'll get it in another video....
...but, when I'm playing the super fast tempo later on in the video it makes an appearance briefly...
Thanks
Yamaha should really sponsor you because your video's finally pushed me (never even looked at a drum) over the edge to finally purchase one. (I suspect that I may not be alone here..)
So.... Now that we are all sitting here with our brand new Yamaha drum machines how would you advise us to get a started with some kind of basic practice regime? For instance there are a few covers that I have been working on with an 8 string guitar (some of which include tapping) and I would like to Isolate the drums of said covers by learning how to play them and get them on a backing track to play against. Would it be better to learn primarily by ear and or go the more traditional (hard yard) route of a more formal approach?
In summary what would be your philosophy on how to possibly structure some kind of beginner road map for rhythmless numpties like myself.
Playing along to classic rock is a good start
I would also state that your fingerdrumming of the Yamaha FGDP is superior to any of Yamaha's official promotion videos on TH-cam. Is the reason why you didn't buy thet FGDP-50 that you just want to play it directly out of the box without editing or making custom kits?
Thanks a bunch, yeah it's up to them what they choose to promote. I didn't buy the 50 because honestly I was like well, maybe I'll use the hundred bucks for something else... Also, I kind of saw that it already has like two star buttons for selecting between two kits that you save in the memory... I primarily only use two kits anyway, more of a modern fusion thing, and then more of a jazz kit... So it just seemed like this had all the features that I needed...
I was very pleasantly surprised that the thing was already set up almost perfectly, well to me, it is set up perfectly... I was expecting to have to do a bunch of modifications....
@@FusionFingerDrum Ok - that's what I thought. You are using it as a musician and artist to play rather than using alle the time on tweeking all kinds of technical things. I think that the reason why you haven't been promoted or noticed is because your videos are quite new and the models were released last September :-).