In depth lesson on drum soloing here: th-cam.com/video/T8ar8IzVmnU/w-d-xo.html Here are my top tips for how to play a drum solo. Drum solos can be technical, melodic, soft, loud, fast, slow...a million different things. All too often we only think of them as being fast and flashy. But they're much deeper than that. If we will focus on things other than fast drumming, you'll find that there is a whole other world of expression waiting for you. Leave a comment and let me know you were here!
funny i am the same age retired now i played in bands from age 10 to 28, that was it, with arthritis seriously in the hands i sure feel like playing again i know how you feel , its in our blood i think , just saying ,,enjoy
hi steven, i am an 62 jear old german autodidact drummer and i just want to thank you for helping me so much develop my drumming. all your lessons are so clear to understand and useful. you are my favorite (together with mike johnston !!!)
I've been guilty of switching on the double kick when it comes to my solo spot and not playing musically. It can be really tough to stay musical when you're playing in a venue where you can get a good crowd response by playing the loud and fast stuff.
man, i always had problems with soloing... even if i knew how others do them i just couldn't get myself together at the right time and do a decent piece of music instead of just banging all around the drumkit. my god, this was just so simple, effective and fun. your teaching style is so nice and friendly that i just can't help but feel the real inspiration for drumming after your lessons. greetings from Russia, and thanx a tonn, man, you rock
I was a salaried musician at a variety show in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee for a season and we played a two hour show twice daily for 6-7 days a week. It took awhile to get over the nerves of simply playing for the audience and enjoying the experience. Playing the same 64 tunes everyday gets a little old and the singers frown when you mix things up a bit, so you learn to play the same patterns over and over like clock work. The show had an instrumental feature where we all took solos. Fun times.
Stephen,I think this is probably the most informative lesson online about this topic. It's covering so much in such a short segment. I would like very much to see a few more segments on the very same thing. Thanks, Keith
Thanks so much Keith. Glad it helped. I have quite a few on my website on this topic. I'll see what I can do about getting some more free content out on the subject.
Hi man, for sure you are one of the best teacher of youtube ..... the only comment is that you talk very quickly and it is a bit complicate for non-english native speakers to understand everything you say. Best regard from Montevideo Uruguay (south america) and pls continue with your great lessons.
great advice bro ! the guys are always throwing solo spots at me and i'm always like "no no no" lol but just relax and work around something simple and add a few nice tasty licks without trying to blow minds . thanks bro
I try to practice as much as I can so when the time comes to get the show going even though I may be nervous I'm confident my muscles know what they're doing. Another thing I do is try to think of every live show as an experience in an of itself, what I mean by this is I will only learn how to play better live WHEN I'm playing live, so the more I do it the more comfortable it'll get... hope this helps
thank you so much man, I just started meditating after i warm up for a couple minutes before class, and my playing feels alot more in the groove and solid
You're really helping out man, putting your tips out there that help drummers like me who already kind of knew/understood it but making it into words and a video that we can watch and
My friends really help with a nervous situation, we went snowboarding and accidentally went to the top of the mountain. This was my first time snowboarding so it was horrifying but they said the only way coming away from this is going down the mountain haha so i did and it was awesome! Best time of my life
I do a solo where I always come back to a simple buzz roll. While keeping 1234 on the kick. gives me time to think up my next part. play a bit then back to the buzz lol. it works. then finish with the big finale. but I really dig your pattern you show and I am going to try and use that as my rock to stabilize me instead of the buzz and see how it works. thank you for showing me and everyone else this way to approach drum solos. you're definitely the man. much respect..
Since I play in a church I always try to pray before every service... It helps so much and in the future even i'm not in a church setting I'll still pray before the show.
I really and truly love your videos Stephen. They are so easy to learn from and I love the fact that you always incorporate real life scenarios for better understanding. Thumbs up pal
Thank you your an excellent teacher and drum player love the way you explain things You make everything make sense and you make it fun with the jokes thank you
Thanks for your response! In regards to javiers comment, I just don't think it's good for anyone to build their confidence by putting someone else down. Anyways this was a great lesson, I spent a good 20-30 mins playing with this pattern around my kit today and it's definitely something that I'll use! So thanks to you!
Informative, simple and effective! Really helped with taking away some of the nerves associated with the spotlight of soloing and delivering a really listenable performance. Would love to see a similar lesson based on triplet/shuffle based soloing!
Interesting take on the solo... i've only been drumming about a year and although i've jumped to metal and double bass pedals, i still need to practice a lot with my "suckier hand" (which happens to be my right since im lefty), and i need to learn a variation of solos since im getting more and more solos with my band as i get better. Thanks for the few simple tips! I'll watch some other videos of yours to see what else you can teach me. (:
while im playing in a crowded place like a concert in my school i just stare at hi hat for a while then THERE YOU GO! i start to force myself only thinking then after some time you start to ignore all people so you play so awsome
A really cool solo is Don Brewer's(from Grand Funk Railroad) train solo, you do triplets on midtom-hightom-kick, lowtom-hightom-kick, midtom-hightom-kick, snare-hightom-kick. if you start slowly and keep pacing it it really sounds like a locomotive XD. Thanks for the lesson, will take these in consideration.
Thanks Stephen! Nice video! I have been playing that identical hand pattern for a while over top of a samba. It has taken me a while to acquire the independence needed!
I really like this man! Good stuff!.... One thing that happens when I get nervous is my mouth gets SUPER dry.. So I always try and have some water next to me on stage
The first snare rudiment was what I was looking for. I hear drummers like Bonham, Peart and others who do fills while keeping the snare active. I always wanted to learn that.
Stephen your point at the end of your video is the most important PUT SPACES IN the point of spaces is to create depth and melodic values but also gives the drummer time to compose himself and his thought processes going into the next part of the solo and if you get stuck you can go back to your starting rhythm, drummers bashing themselves to complete stand still physically and mentally is not a option on most gigs
Hi Stephen, thank you for posting the video. An interesting concept to check out is Billy Ward's concept of "Practice Playing", which I found really helps with being mentally prepared and relaxed, which leads to more fluent.
Steven thank you thank you so much you're a great player you have a great attitude you're really got my attention and I love what you said about soloing it's like I said before and I know you've heard it a million times sometimes it's not about what you play it's what you don't play the kids that space and makes it interesting putting the right thing in at the right time is huge
I like to slowly build into a sick groove in my solos I think its pretty effective.Also I try to emersed in the music and then I dont even consider nerves.
Oh my goodness I'm so glad I watched this! Thank you for making it so approachable. I've never played a solo before and I was always terrified of the idea until now! You're right about a lot of solos not being musical. I went to a gig the other night and the drummer played a solo and one of the guys I went with - a non drummer - was saying how good it was afterwards. The drummer played fast stuff that looks cool to most people but it had no flow.
Hi, just to thank you for this great and useful lesson :) I am experiencing drum soloing for the first time and for a newbie, the most difficult thing from my point of view is getting some kind of basic pattern to start with and then add some personnal creativity. Most of the lessons dealing with drum solo are not really (or hardly) applicable for solo beginners (again from my opinion). Yours is ! Thanks :)
Stephen! Love your channel man, watch it all the time. Your way of teaching and personality makes it fun and proffessional. Hope to chat sometime. Yo. when my nerves up before a drum solo is to start with a very organic feel. Slow, random and repeating melodic phrases without any time signature, to get the feel of the kit and loosen up. But what helps me the most is to use my voice and drum on my head or whatever, fun body langue and antics to make the audience laugh and feel engaged and entertained. And once I start seeing smiles and laughs it really takes the pressure off so I can slip into a groove, and gradually build it. does that make sense??
Honestly when I'm live, I use the nerves as motivation or energy, it is a reminder that I care about what I'm about to do. It also helps to have people see your group practice occasionally, just to get used to people being around.
When I get nervous before a gig,I can't do anything about it... I can only wait for the gig to start. And I'm always terrified before a gig (thank God I'm not a professional!) As for soli, thanks for this video. It's been quite enlightening and will be of great help. I've only played one solo a long time ago, and it was more of a funky groove with a few fills than a chop demonstration. My mastery of rudiments was -and still is- not that good anyway, The crowd seemed to enjoy it though.
Stephen, cool topic and cool solo, simple but cool to listen to. I hate complicated solo, you're right it's just noise. stay cool Stephen. Thank you for your time.
Very nice, Stephen. Playing solos against a theme (or form) can be very challenging but well worth the effort if the goal is to play more musically (which of course, it should be!!). Take care.
Hey Stephen! I really like your TH-cam videos and this was particularly interesting. Could you disect/review some of your favourites solos? It could be also a recurring thing for your channel and it would be really educational.
Hi stephen I appreciate the lessons you've posted on here they've helped me figure a few things out with my playing as well as made practicing simpler and more relaxed. I was wandering what the quicker paradiddle sounding cross over rudiment you played in this video was and what is the sticking for that. -Thanks mike
Wow thxxxx soooo muchhh, I feel less nervous now after watching this, and I also think I got the solo technique under control, u the real VIP MAN👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾💯💯💯
congratulation, the message within video is very important and that's more instructive than 10 technical videos of "great drummer of all time" and bullshits like that
Agreed. In a jazz history course my professor goes up to the piano and bangs on a bunch of notes to demonstrate "Improv" , = sounds horrible right? Just like scales for piano, drummers need to tell a story, its an art form as mentioned above!
For me - its all about being prepared. When I was in the Air Force, we had a motto. Train like you fight, fight like you train. In other words - be so prepared that when the going gets tough, you are almost on auto-pilot. Muscle memory takes over. You know what to do almost by instinct. Relax and know you are going to be great, because you have BEEN great.
A former teacher of mine advised eating a ton of potassium to calm nerves. I don't know the science behind it, but I've tried it many times and in my experience it really works. Eating one or two bananas a half hour or so before a gig, audition, etc. works great, and drinking a high-potassium beverage (like some fruit juices) works even better because it will get into your system faster than solid food will. It won't eliminate nerves completely, but it may take the edge off.
If you don't look at the video it sounds like Dane Cook teaching drum lessons:) lol Excellent videos and thank you for putting all this great stuff out there! Subscribed:)
Hey, can you give some tips or drills for improving my left hand speed? I'd like to use this when I play solos but I can't figure out how to get my left hand to play at a decent speed.
That's some really good advice there Stephen! Do you have any tips on "short" solos, like 8 bars in a rock song where the band tells you "do something cool" I'm always struggling between trying to build something up and just blasting around the toms.
nice video what was the pattern you did between 6:35 and 6:37?I think you did it three times, back and forth between floor tom and snare.can you break it down for me plz?
In depth lesson on drum soloing here: th-cam.com/video/T8ar8IzVmnU/w-d-xo.html
Here are my top tips for how to play a drum solo. Drum solos can be technical, melodic, soft, loud, fast, slow...a million different things. All too often we only think of them as being fast and flashy. But they're much deeper than that. If we will focus on things other than fast drumming, you'll find that there is a whole other world of expression waiting for you.
Leave a comment and let me know you were here!
Stephen Taylor this is a great lesson, thank you sir 🙏
just getting back into drums. played as a kid, but now I'm 63 and bought a new set and starting back . video really is helpful! thanks
funny i am the same age retired now i played in bands from age 10 to 28, that was it, with arthritis seriously in the hands i sure feel like playing again i know how you feel , its in our blood i think , just saying ,,enjoy
You would be AMAZED at how many people in your age group are picking the sticks back up. You're in good company. Glad to have you back in the fold!!!
Dewey Wise do you still play roblox? I haven’t seen you online in a long time
I’m 9 and I’m getting really good and I hope I become as good as you prolly are you are one who stays in there dreams!
I’m 12 and suck at soloing but my band teacher is making solo in front of the whole class. This is my savior
I appreciate your take on NOT overplaying , so many drummers do this, it's all about 'FEEL'
Not just a great solo, but a musical solo - really tasty stuff. Thanks for sharing.
You're more than welcome
hi steven, i am an 62 jear old german autodidact drummer and i just want to thank you for helping me so much develop my drumming. all your lessons are so clear to understand and useful. you are my favorite (together with mike johnston !!!)
Thanks so much Roland...so glad the lessons help!
I've been guilty of switching on the double kick when it comes to my solo spot and not playing musically. It can be really tough to stay musical when you're playing in a venue where you can get a good crowd response by playing the loud and fast stuff.
Thanks Stephen, that's good to keep in mind. I dig your sense of humor.
Ever notice how a great drummer usually has an equally great sense of humor?
By far the best advice for soloing I've ever heard. Have a framework to improvise off of, simple principle in art, great way to break it down.
man, i always had problems with soloing... even if i knew how others do them i just couldn't get myself together at the right time and do a decent piece of music instead of just banging all around the drumkit.
my god, this was just so simple, effective and fun. your teaching style is so nice and friendly that i just can't help but feel the real inspiration for drumming after your lessons. greetings from Russia, and thanx a tonn, man, you rock
I was a salaried musician at a variety show in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee for a season and we played a two hour show twice daily for 6-7 days a week. It took awhile to get over the nerves of simply playing for the audience and enjoying the experience. Playing the same 64 tunes everyday gets a little old and the singers frown when you mix things up a bit, so you learn to play the same patterns over and over like clock work. The show had an instrumental feature where we all took solos. Fun times.
Stephen,I think this is probably the most informative lesson online about this topic. It's covering so much in such a short segment. I would like very much to see a few more segments on the very same thing. Thanks, Keith
Thanks so much Keith. Glad it helped. I have quite a few on my website on this topic. I'll see what I can do about getting some more free content out on the subject.
Hi man, for sure you are one of the best teacher of youtube ..... the only comment is that you talk very quickly and it is a bit complicate for non-english native speakers to understand everything you say. Best regard from Montevideo Uruguay (south america) and pls continue with your great lessons.
great advice bro ! the guys are always throwing solo spots at me and i'm always like "no no no" lol but just relax and work around something simple and add a few nice tasty licks without trying to blow minds . thanks bro
I try to practice as much as I can so when the time comes to get the show going even though I may be nervous I'm confident my muscles know what they're doing. Another thing I do is try to think of every live show as an experience in an of itself, what I mean by this is I will only learn how to play better live WHEN I'm playing live, so the more I do it the more comfortable it'll get... hope this helps
thank you so much man, I just started meditating after i warm up for a couple minutes before class, and my playing feels alot more in the groove and solid
You're really helping out man, putting your tips out there that help drummers like me who already kind of knew/understood it but making it into words and a video that we can watch and
My friends really help with a nervous situation, we went snowboarding and accidentally went to the top of the mountain. This was my first time snowboarding so it was horrifying but they said the only way coming away from this is going down the mountain haha so i did and it was awesome! Best time of my life
I like to draw faces on my cymbals and name them. So I understand when you talk to your hi hat.
"Hi hat!"
That's awesome. Now I wanna put googley eyes on a cymbal! I've got a few chunks missing on mine due to repairs and it would be perfect
Usually to calm myself down I'll do a sound check. I find that I play a lot better live than by myself. The added nerves make me enjoy playing
Also found this lesson very helpful, particularly the "coming back to the framework"
I do a solo where I always come back to a simple buzz roll. While keeping 1234 on the kick. gives me time to think up my next part. play a bit then back to the buzz lol. it works. then finish with the big finale. but I really dig your pattern you show and I am going to try and use that as my rock to stabilize me instead of the buzz and see how it works. thank you for showing me and everyone else this way to approach drum solos. you're definitely the man. much respect..
Since I play in a church I always try to pray before every service... It helps so much and in the future even i'm not in a church setting I'll still pray before the show.
Always love a good drum teacher
Sir, I just wanna thank you for your videos I have learnt a lot from them. Keep up the good work and never mind haters.
I'll keep it up as long as you guys keep watching. So glad the lessons help.
Love your advice! I'm going to have to use it tonight. Thank you!
Thanks for posting, this has been one of the more useful videos I've seen for composition.
I really and truly love your videos Stephen. They are so easy to learn from and I love the fact that you always incorporate real life scenarios for better understanding. Thumbs up pal
Thanks so much Christopher
Hey man, would you upload a video on how you prepare your nerves and stage-fright before you perform? I would find it extremely helpful.
Thank you your an excellent teacher and drum player love the way you explain things You make everything make sense and you make it fun with the jokes thank you
Glad it helped!
Thanks for your response! In regards to javiers comment, I just don't think it's good for anyone to build their confidence by putting someone else down. Anyways this was a great lesson, I spent a good 20-30 mins playing with this pattern around my kit today and it's definitely something that I'll use! So thanks to you!
Hey Stephen, As always you nailed it with this lesson. You stayed focused except for those damn Hi-Hats. Thank you.
I always speak to my spirit drumming guide uncle jimmi when I get nervous, he sorts things out from the other side :0) ....Another great lesson!
Dat snaresound is amazing dude!
Greets from germany
Informative, simple and effective! Really helped with taking away some of the nerves associated with the spotlight of soloing and delivering a really listenable performance. Would love to see a similar lesson based on triplet/shuffle based soloing!
Interesting take on the solo... i've only been drumming about a year and although i've jumped to metal and double bass pedals, i still need to practice a lot with my "suckier hand" (which happens to be my right since im lefty), and i need to learn a variation of solos since im getting more and more solos with my band as i get better. Thanks for the few simple tips! I'll watch some other videos of yours to see what else you can teach me. (:
while im playing in a crowded place like a concert in my school i just stare at hi hat for a while then THERE YOU GO! i start to force myself only thinking then after some time you start to ignore all people so you play so awsome
A really cool solo is Don Brewer's(from Grand Funk Railroad) train solo, you do triplets on midtom-hightom-kick, lowtom-hightom-kick, midtom-hightom-kick, snare-hightom-kick. if you start slowly and keep pacing it it really sounds like a locomotive XD.
Thanks for the lesson, will take these in consideration.
I love the sound of you snare drum!
Thanks Stephen! Nice video! I have been playing that identical hand pattern for a while over top of a samba. It has taken me a while to acquire the independence needed!
I really like this man! Good stuff!.... One thing that happens when I get nervous is my mouth gets SUPER dry.. So I always try and have some water next to me on stage
The first snare rudiment was what I was looking for. I hear drummers like Bonham, Peart and others who do fills while keeping the snare active. I always wanted to learn that.
Stephen your point at the end of your video is the most important PUT SPACES IN the point of spaces is to create depth and melodic values but also gives the drummer time to compose himself and his thought processes going into the next part of the solo and if you get stuck you can go back to your starting rhythm, drummers bashing themselves to complete stand still physically and mentally is not a option on most gigs
dude i love your dynamic range!
Hi Stephen, thank you for posting the video. An interesting concept to check out is Billy Ward's concept of "Practice Playing", which I found really helps with being mentally prepared and relaxed, which leads to more fluent.
you're a great teacher
Steven thank you thank you so much you're a great player you have a great attitude you're really got my attention and I love what you said about soloing it's like I said before and I know you've heard it a million times sometimes it's not about what you play it's what you don't play the kids that space and makes it interesting putting the right thing in at the right time is huge
I like to slowly build into a sick groove in my solos I think its pretty effective.Also I try to emersed in the music and then I dont even consider nerves.
Oh my goodness I'm so glad I watched this! Thank you for making it so approachable. I've never played a solo before and I was always terrified of the idea until now! You're right about a lot of solos not being musical. I went to a gig the other night and the drummer played a solo and one of the guys I went with - a non drummer - was saying how good it was afterwards. The drummer played fast stuff that looks cool to most people but it had no flow.
So glad it helped!
You're the coolest drum teacher hahah. Awesome!
Hi, just to thank you for this great and useful lesson :) I am experiencing drum soloing for the first time and for a newbie, the most difficult thing from my point of view is getting some kind of basic pattern to start with and then add some personnal creativity. Most of the lessons dealing with drum solo are not really (or hardly) applicable for solo beginners (again from my opinion). Yours is ! Thanks :)
Very helpful lesson...Thanks for sharing!
hi Stephen! I don't know if i improve my drumming following your lessons (i'm not so bravo")... sure, it's a the best way to learn english!!!
Ciaooooo
This so true Stephen. Thank you for this. Great lesson.
That solo was cool reminded me of soul sacrifice drum solo played the drummer to santana at Woodstock 69
Yes! Great advice Stephen. Thanks!
Stephen! Love your channel man, watch it all the time. Your way of teaching and personality makes it fun and proffessional. Hope to chat sometime. Yo. when my nerves up before a drum solo is to start with a very organic feel. Slow, random and repeating melodic phrases without any time signature, to get the feel of the kit and loosen up. But what helps me the most is to use my voice and drum on my head or whatever, fun body langue and antics to make the audience laugh and feel engaged and entertained. And once I start seeing smiles and laughs it really takes the pressure off so I can slip into a groove, and gradually build it. does that make sense??
awesome lesson really enjoyed it thanks man!
Honestly when I'm live, I use the nerves as motivation or energy, it is a reminder that I care about what I'm about to do. It also helps to have people see your group practice occasionally, just to get used to people being around.
When I get nervous before a gig,I can't do anything about it... I can only wait for the gig to start. And I'm always terrified before a gig (thank God I'm not a professional!)
As for soli, thanks for this video. It's been quite enlightening and will be of great help. I've only played one solo a long time ago, and it was more of a funky groove with a few fills than a chop demonstration. My mastery of rudiments was -and still is- not that good anyway, The crowd seemed to enjoy it though.
Stephen, cool topic and cool solo, simple but cool to listen to. I hate complicated solo, you're right it's just noise. stay cool Stephen. Thank you for your time.
Thanks Henk!
Ive had a few lesson from Marcus Finnie
This so helpful for my rock school drums
Very nice, Stephen. Playing solos against a theme (or form) can be very challenging but well worth the effort if the goal is to play more musically (which of course, it should be!!). Take care.
Hey Stephen! I really like your TH-cam videos and this was particularly interesting. Could you disect/review some of your favourites solos? It could be also a recurring thing for your channel and it would be really educational.
Hi stephen I appreciate the lessons you've posted on here they've helped me figure a few things out with my playing as well as made practicing simpler and more relaxed. I was wandering what the quicker paradiddle sounding cross over rudiment you played in this video was and what is the sticking for that.
-Thanks mike
Sure, got a lot of questions about that pattern. Here's a lesson on it. DRUM LESSON - The Crossover
Hope that helps!
Another good and understandable video. Thanks for the help.
Nice I really liked it. I am still trying to drum to song but sometimes its hard and I want to be a drummer like my dad when i am older
Wow thxxxx soooo muchhh, I feel less nervous now after watching this, and I also think I got the solo technique under control, u the real VIP MAN👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾💯💯💯
This was really helpful. Keep the good things coming
Glad it helped Joel!
Brilliant lesson many Thanks
You bet jeremy!
Great Stephen you inspire me
Seconds 18 -22 was cool fills between HH, snare, floor tom. Could you slow that down or explain it. Awesome.
Thanks for the lesson!
congratulation, the message within video is very important and that's more instructive than 10 technical videos of "great drummer of all time" and bullshits like that
dude u r alot better than i thought, after watching this
i love this soooooo much!!!!! thank you
I like ur style.. Just subscribed for more tips, thanks!
Agreed. In a jazz history course my professor goes up to the piano and bangs on a bunch of notes to demonstrate "Improv" , = sounds horrible right?
Just like scales for piano, drummers need to tell a story, its an art form as mentioned above!
Love the solo dude :)
im a pretty advanced drummer and this really helped. thanks man
+Hans Sennik So glad it helped man
Good tips man!!!
Thanks SDS, great tip
You bet!
Lol the hi-hat part was funny and it's hard to make me laugh but that did.
Q: what do you do when you get nervous?
A: Pray! And remember the holy spirit is in me. :-)
What kind of hi hats are you using dude, awesome
Crabtrees stuff on solos is great!
this just gave me a total lightbulb moment, thank you
Goal accomplished then ;^)
So glad it helped
For me - its all about being prepared. When I was in the Air Force, we had a motto. Train like you fight, fight like you train. In other words - be so prepared that when the going gets tough, you are almost on auto-pilot. Muscle memory takes over. You know what to do almost by instinct. Relax and know you are going to be great, because you have BEEN great.
Sickk. What would you recommended for someone who is still developing hand speed/double rolls?
THANK YOU!!! xD awesome video!
A former teacher of mine advised eating a ton of potassium to calm nerves. I don't know the science behind it, but I've tried it many times and in my experience it really works. Eating one or two bananas a half hour or so before a gig, audition, etc. works great, and drinking a high-potassium beverage (like some fruit juices) works even better because it will get into your system faster than solid food will. It won't eliminate nerves completely, but it may take the edge off.
If you don't look at the video it sounds like Dane Cook teaching drum lessons:) lol
Excellent videos and thank you for putting all this great stuff out there!
Subscribed:)
Hey, can you give some tips or drills for improving my left hand speed?
I'd like to use this when I play solos but I can't figure out how to get my left hand to play at a decent speed.
Thanks a bunch. Solos seem easier now.
That's some really good advice there Stephen!
Do you have any tips on "short" solos, like 8 bars in a rock song where the band tells you "do something cool"
I'm always struggling between trying to build something up and just blasting around the toms.
I've found people react super strongly to Triplets every time!
This is unbelievably useful! I feel like you're reading my mind haha!!
nice video
what was the pattern you did between 6:35 and 6:37?I think you did it three times, back and forth between floor tom and snare.can you break it down for me plz?
Thank you so much for this :D
AWESOME
For a test. I just think of something else lol. I also tell myself I can do it and I will do it. Also great video :D