❤ 🐕🐕 ❤ Beautiful puppies. I love them all. Thank you for giving him the surgery so puppy can see again. Murray Spivack taught me to make all beats played perfectly so no beats are lost from being weak and not heard. Another wards say a roll will sound faster when all beats are heard with the same emphasis. And always used a metronome which makes you not able to cheat and not be sloppy.
So, I'm a totally self taught drummer, I've played professionally, done session work, gigged, all that. But for the longest time felt like I hit a wall. I could do some shuffles, and hold down a tight groove. And that's all well and good and important. But, being self taught, no one taught me rudiments, or independence exercises, any of that. I just stuck to playing what I could hear. And that wall I kept hitting had me, quite frankly, feeling depressed. But man, after watching your videos and doing some of your exercises, my comfort behind the kit is exponentially greater, my speed has picked up a ton, and my ability to both be creative or just groove has improved. And that's just over the course of a month or two devoting time to your lessons. Literally, the only thing different I've done is practice rudiments and exercises you've taught. Your lessons are stellar. I appreciate the musicality you bring to the lessons, even with pad exercises like this. I personally don't like thinking about technicality exclusively; there has to be some musicality or melody in order for my brain to click with it. You do that with every lesson. Your videos motivated me to take a step back and learn some of the basics I never knew to learn in the first place, and the inspiring way you teach has helped me unlock an array of skillsets I never thought I could achieve. I've tried doing other lessons from other people over time, and they're all great and informative. But for me, nothing actually stuck, nothing has kept me motivated as your lessons. So thank you for the hard work, knowledge, and inspiration! I actually feel like I'm getting better as a drummer, and that's something I haven't felt in over a decade. Thank you 🙏
TL;DR - your honesty and candor about how you’re still working on this is extremely appreciated and refreshing, and it makes me want to pick up and start playing drums again! Now onto the meat of the why, if you’re interested lol… I’m a guitarist of almost 25 that decided to learn drums in his mid-to-late 30s, and have struggled with it immensely, because I’m not just an old dog learning new tricks, I’m also having to unlearn what I think I know about drumming -stuff like tapping out a kick and snare with my hands when coming up with new ideas, and having to learn to not do kick with my hands, but my feet… Anyways, I haven’t attempted to play drums in over a year because of my current living situation, but will be able to after I move in September. As such I just started watching the drum trainers I’m subbed to here, and I gotta say… this is a great video. Not just for the technique or the training tips, but because of your honesty at the end. I *know* you’re good at what you do, I’ve seen it in all your vids. But the fact that you are honest about this being a challenging exercise, and something you’re working on… yeah, that’s what practice and learning new things is all about! So many TH-camrs will just show you something completely perfect and just be like “there ya go! See how easy that was!?” and I think it frustrates people like me, who do actually struggle with those simple rudiments. I’m so used to just picking up a guitar and knowing all that I already know and also what limitations I have. I know that I can choose to work on a very specific technique or just songwriting or learning a new song or whatever. I get to be good at a thing and not have to worry about training anything. So when I play drums, it frustrates the hell out of me because my body won’t do what I’m trying to do lol. But I also have some pretty solid rudimentary skills because I’ve messed around with drum *ideas* since I was a teenager, and can play pretty solid simple rock beats, I just have no actual finesse or control. So seeing a teacher be like “this is a work in progress, it’s what I’m learning/struggling with rn… like yeah, that’s SO encouraging as a beginner/novice. You’re not talking down to me, you’re not treating me like a kid, you’re being honest, and you’re showing something that truly does take skill and practice to learn, that it ALSO give you a lot of other skills alongside it, such as takes parallel/equal LR strength, dynamics, hand speed, timing, lead-hand-swapping, stick control, and a slew of other useful technique and skills. I literally want to just go unbox my drum pad rn and go try this! But I’m packing everything for a big move and my gf would kill me 😅
Love the sound of this one, and the way the accents fall on the Paradiddle-diddles and the Double Paradiddle! As always the "Shigadaboop" gets that left hand lead working! Great stuff as always Teach!!! 🤘😎🍵
Started 3 months ago playing it at 60 bpm. I am up to 90 bpm and still pressing. It has really helped me in getting more even flow between both hands. When I started, I noticed a hesitancy when going into the Swiss flams on the turnaround. I took the double paradiddle going into the flames and practiced that chunk alone for a few days. I was able to eliminate the gap (hesitancy) and was able to get an even flow at 60 bpm. Then when I returned to the whole exercise, I paid close attention to the motion of my hands and kept my hands relaxed and loose as I increased gradually the speed. After playing with this for a half hour each morning for 2 months straight and then sprinkled throughout my morning practice and incorporated in my jam sessions for the last month, I am finally up to 90bpm and it is feeling great. This exercise has challenged me and rewarded me as I have practiced it. I am glad that I invested time in this exercise as it is yielding many rewards in my playing in general and my confidence on the drums. Thanks, Mike for another tool in my drumming toolbox. :-)
Great lesson. No way that it can be boring with Juno and Han! I remember the fundraiser. So glad to see Han doing well. My Weimaraner, BMO, wholeheartedly endorses your channel! (He, too, struggles with his weak hand.)
Mike, the way you teach is very helpful to me! Where i took 15 years off and have only been back 8 months, I really am rusty most days and find myself spinning my wheels most days! Thanks Mike!!
Yet again, I’m traveling and away from a kit all this week. I have a pad and sticks though (and I brought hands and knees, as well). I’ve been working on “Page 1” over feet grids a lot lately, but this exercise will be a great new addition to break up all that pad duplication. Thanks, as ever, Mike! ❤️
You're right in that this stuff "can" be boring, but in my experience, not on this channel. I absolutely love these exercises Mike, they're always just the right level of challenge to where I'm at, always JUUUUST within reach to begin with (maybe not the advanced stuff!)...but also short enough patterns and enjoyable enough that it's not abject misery trying to remember, improve and master them. I've had some extremely challenging mental health issues recently but hand on heart come back and get on the pad every single day right now because of you and these exercises...and that's the whole point, surely. That's where we want to be as players. You exemplify the art and the love of playing; for me it's inspirational. Please never underestimate the good these videos do. Thank you so much for sharing. 👍👊🥁
This is the first of your videos I've seen and I love how honest you are its so inspiring 🤘 I'm self taught and I'm trying to expand my vocabulary with rudiments which is hard and sometimes boring so thanks for a challenging pad exercise 💪
Great video!! I have to say its very encouraging for me to hear you say "Your technique wasnt all that good". That convinces me that your the teacher a student can learn from. Not only are you good at your skills but you dont let your ego dictate how you teach, basically you bring yourself down to any level of drumming the rest of us can relate to. Case closed, i watch your videos exclusively now. Thanks for being humble and making this fun to learn.
Nice exercise! I played it a few times without the Swiss triplets just to get the paradiddlediddles & double paradiddles down. Then I added the Swiss triplets.
Open , honest, inspiring. Thanks Mike, I’m far more at ease about not knowing or being able to do everything on the drums with my students and peers and that is thanks to you. To the journey 🍻/🍵😉.
Wow Mike just in time with another great lesson. I was just thinking that I need a new go to pad exercise and BAM an excellent little pattern. I also love doing that - putting the TV on and crank something on the pad for an hour or 5. Thanks for the awesome content!
Mike! I stopped playing drums for about ten years and I’m jumping back in the saddle and banging my head against the wall with this, and I love it! When you say “left hand lead Swiss triplet” you make the first hit of the flam with your right hand… does that not make it a right hand lead?
Hey Ryan, glad you’re back at it!!! As for your question, flams and flamed rudiments are considered Right or Left based on the accented note, not the grace note so a right flam is lR and a left flam is rL. Hope that helps :)
Looooove the dog inserts! Welcome Han, and you're every bit as gorgeous as Juno. Bless you guys for that eye surgery. Killer exercise. I might have neglected my swiss triplets these past 20 years.
This feels great and flows so well in the hands! Nicely done! A variation that I’ve been having fun with; add a flam on the first note of every diddle(para-flam-a-diddle-diddles and Double para-flam-a-diddles) Then you have a flam-tap leading into the Swiss. Awesome man! Keep doing what you’re doing!🥁
Great exercise Mike. I love the dogs man. They are beautiful dogs. Started the exercise this morning in my morning routine and it was slow going but we will see how things are after a few days of playing it. :-)
My little girl always comes up to me while I'm practicing, its like there telling us, " I need love, and attention, Master" when I'm bummed or upset, before I practice. My little girl is always there to set my mood right.
Great exercise. Love it, Mike. So for me, this is one of those exercises that I'm having fun employing what I call "The Gadd Displacement" concept where essentially you start the exercise with the last sextuplet, then the last two sextuplets, then the last three sextuplets (or the second swiss triplet) and so on until you get back the beginning as it's written. The sticking never changes so it's interesting to hear how differently the accents land when you do this. It's also hard as shit! It helps if you write each of the displaced "versions" out though. Cheers, and thank you. 🙏
I paused this vid right before he went into why he likes it. I sat and worked it for about 10 min and was like "damn, this thing is difficult." Unpaused and confirmation. Gotta keep this one slow for a bit. Great pattern, thanks for the vid!!
Way back in time, I began to learn snare. And you know they make you get a practice block. Now a pad and a stand. I couldn't stand those. Now that I'm grown and successful meaning an adult I'm back with sticks in my hand. Not so much that dreaded practice pad. But this is another accomplished drummer using one. And saying I'm trying to get better. I'm no where near that fast. So I guess I might start looking into using one 🙄.
Not many know the proper pronunciation for swiss triplets - bluppata bluppata. That's how you know this man is a true professional Killer drill as always good sir
I like the way it sounds, especially slower. I struggle with Swiss Army Triplets - always have. Any recommendations for smoothing those out, other than to continue to muscle through them? FWIW, I've been trying to muscle through them for about 30 years . . .
Gm Mike it’s freaking hot here in Texas 105’. Guarantee it’s kitime. Finally got a student he’s my next door neighbor his name is Raul and he’s doing amazing. Raul has always been interested but he didn’t know how to ask me he’s desiring our craft and he’s 37 and thought he was too old for lesson’s? I told him common give it a shot.
So all about the protein no carbs kidding around but this lesson really helps cuz I do have a problem favoring a 16th notes and transitioning into a triplets smoothly
Man it’s been like “my Swiss army triplets sound like 💩” month for me and this exercise is fun and challenging and makes you wanna NOT look at the tv hahah
Hey Mike, not a drum question but a dog question. My dog is also blind (we rescued him that way). Did yours have cataracts? I didn’t even know surgery was an option to restore their vision. Thanks!
Hey Rob! Same, took him in as a foster while he was blind. Fell in love with him, then adopted him in December. Yes, he had cataracts. The surgery is fairly comon but obviously you have to find a specialist, and it's pricy. Between 6000.00 - 10,000.00 depending on where you live. The Weim Rescue Service already had a good chunk of that raised for whatever family adopted him so that made the decision a no-brainer. Recovery is about 30 days with a cone and LOTS of drops but now he can see great and is loving every minute of it. Hope that helped Rob! Mike J
@@mikeslessons Thank you for that info, Mike! Man, it sounds like you kinda got lucky with all that money they had raised. My dog has none of that and I can’t afford it, so I guess he’s staying blind. Haha. He’s not affected by his blindness, thankfully. If anything, we are more than him. Glad your pup is doing well! Thanks again for the reply. Love your vids!
I'm a pretty new drummer, about a year,and trying to absorb everything i can. I stumbled on your video and really enjoy how challenging the exercise is, but i have a question about the notation. Its written as 4/4 time with 16th notes, but there are 24 notes in the measure. Am i missing something or is the notation not meant to be 100% accurate?
Still using the REFLEXX for most of my stuff but I felt like this exercise needed a little extra click. This is an old prototype that I made with Aquarian years ago. It also is white and everything in the scene was so dark I felt like the shot needed an extra pop of brightness. Hope that helps :)
@@mikeslessons Thanks Mike. I've been considering a new pad. I've been using the Ludwig P4 for 12 years. I was thinking about going to single surface again.
I can’t tell you how inspiring it is to see a professional, a TH-camr actually struggle. Actually showing that you are human. Thank you!
When it comes to drumming I'm PLENTY human!!! When it comes to making matcha, I'm basically a super hero. LOL JK 🙏🍵🙏
I believe we should be more privy to the struggle !
Drums are really hard !
Really love watching your videos with the auto-generated captions on, they really struggle when you're sounding out the rhythms haha
❤ 🐕🐕 ❤ Beautiful puppies. I love them all. Thank you for giving him the surgery so puppy can see again. Murray Spivack taught me to make all beats played perfectly so no beats are lost from being weak and not heard. Another wards say a roll will sound faster when all beats are heard with the same emphasis. And always used a metronome which makes you not able to cheat and not be sloppy.
So, I'm a totally self taught drummer, I've played professionally, done session work, gigged, all that. But for the longest time felt like I hit a wall. I could do some shuffles, and hold down a tight groove. And that's all well and good and important.
But, being self taught, no one taught me rudiments, or independence exercises, any of that. I just stuck to playing what I could hear. And that wall I kept hitting had me, quite frankly, feeling depressed.
But man, after watching your videos and doing some of your exercises, my comfort behind the kit is exponentially greater, my speed has picked up a ton, and my ability to both be creative or just groove has improved. And that's just over the course of a month or two devoting time to your lessons.
Literally, the only thing different I've done is practice rudiments
and exercises you've taught.
Your lessons are stellar. I appreciate the musicality you bring to the lessons, even with pad exercises like this. I personally don't like thinking about technicality exclusively; there has to be some musicality or melody in order for my brain to click with it.
You do that with every lesson. Your videos motivated me to take a step back and learn some of the basics I never knew to learn in the first place, and the inspiring way you teach has helped me unlock an array of skillsets I never thought I could achieve. I've tried doing other lessons from other people over time, and they're all great and informative. But for me, nothing actually stuck, nothing has kept me motivated as your lessons.
So thank you for the hard work, knowledge, and inspiration! I actually feel like I'm getting better as a drummer, and that's something I haven't felt in over a decade. Thank you 🙏
TL;DR - your honesty and candor about how you’re still working on this is extremely appreciated and refreshing, and it makes me want to pick up and start playing drums again!
Now onto the meat of the why, if you’re interested lol…
I’m a guitarist of almost 25 that decided to learn drums in his mid-to-late 30s, and have struggled with it immensely, because I’m not just an old dog learning new tricks, I’m also having to unlearn what I think I know about drumming -stuff like tapping out a kick and snare with my hands when coming up with new ideas, and having to learn to not do kick with my hands, but my feet…
Anyways, I haven’t attempted to play drums in over a year because of my current living situation, but will be able to after I move in September. As such I just started watching the drum trainers I’m subbed to here, and I gotta say… this is a great video.
Not just for the technique or the training tips, but because of your honesty at the end.
I *know* you’re good at what you do, I’ve seen it in all your vids. But the fact that you are honest about this being a challenging exercise, and something you’re working on… yeah, that’s what practice and learning new things is all about!
So many TH-camrs will just show you something completely perfect and just be like “there ya go! See how easy that was!?” and I think it frustrates people like me, who do actually struggle with those simple rudiments.
I’m so used to just picking up a guitar and knowing all that I already know and also what limitations I have. I know that I can choose to work on a very specific technique or just songwriting or learning a new song or whatever.
I get to be good at a thing and not have to worry about training anything.
So when I play drums, it frustrates the hell out of me because my body won’t do what I’m trying to do lol. But I also have some pretty solid rudimentary skills because I’ve messed around with drum *ideas* since I was a teenager, and can play pretty solid simple rock beats, I just have no actual finesse or control.
So seeing a teacher be like “this is a work in progress, it’s what I’m learning/struggling with rn… like yeah, that’s SO encouraging as a beginner/novice.
You’re not talking down to me, you’re not treating me like a kid, you’re being honest, and you’re showing something that truly does take skill and practice to learn, that it ALSO give you a lot of other skills alongside it, such as takes parallel/equal LR strength, dynamics, hand speed, timing, lead-hand-swapping, stick control, and a slew of other useful technique and skills.
I literally want to just go unbox my drum pad rn and go try this! But I’m packing everything for a big move and my gf would kill me 😅
Not boring at all! Working on hands is my favorite form of practice. It translates to more freedom on the kit!
100% Glad you feel that way my friend!
Love the sound of this one, and the way the accents fall on the Paradiddle-diddles and the Double Paradiddle! As always the "Shigadaboop" gets that left hand lead working! Great stuff as always Teach!!! 🤘😎🍵
Started 3 months ago playing it at 60 bpm. I am up to 90 bpm and still pressing. It has really helped me in getting more even flow between both hands. When I started, I noticed a hesitancy when going into the Swiss flams on the turnaround. I took the double paradiddle going into the flames and practiced that chunk alone for a few days. I was able to eliminate the gap (hesitancy) and was able to get an even flow at 60 bpm. Then when I returned to the whole exercise, I paid close attention to the motion of my hands and kept my hands relaxed and loose as I increased gradually the speed. After playing with this for a half hour each morning for 2 months straight and then sprinkled throughout my morning practice and incorporated in my jam sessions for the last month, I am finally up to 90bpm and it is feeling great. This exercise has challenged me and rewarded me as I have practiced it. I am glad that I invested time in this exercise as it is yielding many rewards in my playing in general and my confidence on the drums. Thanks, Mike for another tool in my drumming toolbox. :-)
Great lesson. No way that it can be boring with Juno and Han!
I remember the fundraiser. So glad to see Han doing well.
My Weimaraner, BMO, wholeheartedly endorses your channel! (He, too, struggles with his weak hand.)
Mike, the way you teach is very helpful to me! Where i took 15 years off and have only been back 8 months, I really am rusty most days and find myself spinning my wheels most days! Thanks Mike!!
Ohne Fleiß kein Preis. Mit einem Mix aus Spaß und Übung sollte es passen. Tolle Stunde hier !!! :-)
Yet again, I’m traveling and away from a kit all this week. I have a pad and sticks though (and I brought hands and knees, as well). I’ve been working on “Page 1” over feet grids a lot lately, but this exercise will be a great new addition to break up all that pad duplication. Thanks, as ever, Mike! ❤️
Johnston you're the flipping best to ever do it mate. No one teaches better than you and looks so damn good while doing it!
It is not boring……..if you see and feel results. Love it ! BTW, I’ve been doing this drum thing since 1964. Love your channel.
You are just amazing, you make difficult things look easy. I would like to have a teacher like you. Hello from Italy.
I’d love to hear you talk about keeping the hands relaxed as you build speed, using fingers, and that gab between your thumb and index
You're right in that this stuff "can" be boring, but in my experience, not on this channel. I absolutely love these exercises Mike, they're always just the right level of challenge to where I'm at, always JUUUUST within reach to begin with (maybe not the advanced stuff!)...but also short enough patterns and enjoyable enough that it's not abject misery trying to remember, improve and master them. I've had some extremely challenging mental health issues recently but hand on heart come back and get on the pad every single day right now because of you and these exercises...and that's the whole point, surely. That's where we want to be as players. You exemplify the art and the love of playing; for me it's inspirational. Please never underestimate the good these videos do. Thank you so much for sharing. 👍👊🥁
Always making exercises so musical, Mike. Thank you for this. Going to be working on this for weeks and weeks 😂
This is the first of your videos I've seen and I love how honest you are its so inspiring 🤘 I'm self taught and I'm trying to expand my vocabulary with rudiments which is hard and sometimes boring so thanks for a challenging pad exercise 💪
As good a teacher as he is a drummer. Love you Mike
Great video!! I have to say its very encouraging for me to hear you say "Your technique wasnt all that good". That convinces me that your the teacher a student can learn from. Not only are you good at your skills but you dont let your ego dictate how you teach, basically you bring yourself down to any level of drumming the rest of us can relate to.
Case closed, i watch your videos exclusively now.
Thanks for being humble and making this fun to learn.
I love this! Been working on the Diddle It Up for a couple of months moving toward 130. This will make a nice addition. Nice Luminor.
You keep inspiring me man thank you. This is so fun I had to start at 50bpm and I'm not ashamed to admit that. I'm up to 80bpm now so I'm pumped!!
Thanks Mike...👍 You just helped me identify a huge weaknesses in the form of THE DREADED LEFT HAND LEAD SWISS TRIPLETS!!! 🥁🤯
Definitely not boring. These lessons are dope.
Really honing in on some multiple layered challenges here!
Nice exercise! I played it a few times without the Swiss triplets just to get the paradiddlediddles & double paradiddles down. Then I added the Swiss triplets.
Thank you Mike for your vulnerability! It means a lot.
Thanks for the video! Could you please tell me what that practice pad is?
Open , honest, inspiring. Thanks Mike, I’m far more at ease about not knowing or being able to do everything on the drums with my students and peers and that is thanks to you. To the journey 🍻/🍵😉.
Wow Mike just in time with another great lesson. I was just thinking that I need a new go to pad exercise and BAM an excellent little pattern. I also love doing that - putting the TV on and crank something on the pad for an hour or 5. Thanks for the awesome content!
Mike! I stopped playing drums for about ten years and I’m jumping back in the saddle and banging my head against the wall with this, and I love it!
When you say “left hand lead Swiss triplet” you make the first hit of the flam with your right hand… does that not make it a right hand lead?
Hey Ryan, glad you’re back at it!!! As for your question, flams and flamed rudiments are considered Right or Left based on the accented note, not the grace note so a right flam is lR and a left flam is rL. Hope that helps :)
@@mikeslessons Thanks, Mike! Massive respect 🤘🤘🤘
That clears up the flow issue I was having!
It’s like you know exactly what I need lol. I’ll throw down on this. Thanks mike.
Nice, I can't wait to jump on this.
"Tweak it a little bit to be your own" 🥰🥰💯
Hi, Mike! Thanks for this lesson! Useful as usual. Wish you best!
This is my favorite new TH-cam channel
Much appreciated Matt 🍵🙏🍵🙏
Very NOT boring! I love doing things like this. I also find them very meditative.
Your an incredible teacher and I Have the upmost Respect for you, Your delivery of tuition on Drums is Awesome 🥁🔥🥁💎👏💎👏💎
Great video as always. Love the "realness" and overall quality. Thank you sir!
Looooove the dog inserts! Welcome Han, and you're every bit as gorgeous as Juno. Bless you guys for that eye surgery.
Killer exercise. I might have neglected my swiss triplets these past 20 years.
This feels great and flows so well in the hands! Nicely done! A variation that I’ve been having fun with; add a flam on the first note of every diddle(para-flam-a-diddle-diddles and Double para-flam-a-diddles) Then you have a flam-tap leading into the Swiss. Awesome man! Keep doing what you’re doing!🥁
Technique and Humbleness. Very inspirational, Mike. Thanks!.
In no way is it boring.Just Amazing as ALWAYS. THANK YOU
He's an amazing instructor. Working on it now, thanks Mike
"We're in this together." With our doggos. Cheers, sir! You are an inspiration. =)
I love pad lessons! Keep em coming!
This is huge , thx . Working on it the last 3 days and beside the fun, it improves my technique. Cheers from germany.🥁✌️☮️🥁
Thanks Mike. I like a challenge and exercises that utilize both hands with a turnaround.
I'm with you Carl, these are my favorites!
Love it Mike! Thank You!
Thank you I will give it a try later. Have a fantastic night
Amazing. Just that puzzle piece I was looking for!
Great! Thank you for that! The pad sounds also great 🙂
Incredible exercise Mike! So glad to hear you struggle with this, as I am. Thanks for my new challenge!
Great exercise Mike. I love the dogs man. They are beautiful dogs. Started the exercise this morning in my morning routine and it was slow going but we will see how things are after a few days of playing it. :-)
My little girl always comes up to me while I'm practicing, its like there telling us, " I need love, and attention, Master" when I'm bummed or upset, before I practice. My little girl is always there to set my mood right.
Great exercise. Love it, Mike. So for me, this is one of those exercises that I'm having fun employing what I call "The Gadd Displacement" concept where essentially you start the exercise with the last sextuplet, then the last two sextuplets, then the last three sextuplets (or the second swiss triplet) and so on until you get back the beginning as it's written. The sticking never changes so it's interesting to hear how differently the accents land when you do this. It's also hard as shit! It helps if you write each of the displaced "versions" out though. Cheers, and thank you. 🙏
I paused this vid right before he went into why he likes it. I sat and worked it for about 10 min and was like "damn, this thing is difficult." Unpaused and confirmation. Gotta keep this one slow for a bit. Great pattern, thanks for the vid!!
Way back in time, I began to learn snare. And you know they make you get a practice block. Now a pad and a stand. I couldn't stand those. Now that I'm grown and successful meaning an adult I'm back with sticks in my hand. Not so much that dreaded practice pad. But this is another accomplished drummer using one. And saying I'm trying to get better. I'm no where near that fast. So I guess I might start looking into using one 🙄.
Not boring AT ALL!! Please keep em coming🤘🏼. Also, is that a new conditioning pad?
Thanks for the lesson :)
Love the Groove Scribe link. Can’t wait to try it out 🥁🔥
Not many know the proper pronunciation for swiss triplets - bluppata bluppata. That's how you know this man is a true professional
Killer drill as always good sir
Can’t wait to try this out! I have been living in paradiddlediddles lately
Wow! This is great! Thanks, MJ
I like the way it sounds, especially slower. I struggle with Swiss Army Triplets - always have. Any recommendations for smoothing those out, other than to continue to muscle through them? FWIW, I've been trying to muscle through them for about 30 years . . .
such a nice and cool video!!
Dogs? Drums? Shiggidaboop? All right, got me a nice exercise to try. Thanks!
Gm Mike it’s freaking hot here in Texas 105’. Guarantee it’s kitime. Finally got a student he’s my next door neighbor his name is Raul and he’s doing amazing. Raul has always been interested but he didn’t know how to ask me he’s desiring our craft and he’s 37 and thought he was too old for lesson’s? I told him common give it a shot.
Loving this
So all about the protein no carbs kidding around but this lesson really helps cuz I do have a problem favoring a 16th notes and transitioning into a triplets smoothly
Awesome video
Looking forward to working in this this week, thanks Mike! That’s a nice pad too 👀
You'll smash it, and I have no idea what you're talking about, LOL! :)
Another great lesson !!
What kind of pad are you using ? Love the sound 😊
Hey Jeffery. It's a prototype that I made a couple years back with Aquarian.
Never done switch swiss trips, so that's the challenge for me. This'll fit right into the routine.
Loving all the content! What metronome app are you using
The link for it is in the description of all of my videos :)
Man it’s been like “my Swiss army triplets sound like 💩” month for me and this exercise is fun and challenging and makes you wanna NOT look at the tv hahah
👍‼️Excellent Mike!!
I really love to see people doing stuff with their dogs
Great exercise, thanks Mike!
Great!
MJ: "Can daddy work?"
DOGS: "NO :o)"
Hi there ya’ll. Does anyone know what practice pad Mike is using here. I am looking to buy one and there seems to be so many out there. Thanks
Friendly to the pups 🐶❤️
Love this!
Awesome, What practice pad is that?
Hey Mike, not a drum question but a dog question. My dog is also blind (we rescued him that way). Did yours have cataracts? I didn’t even know surgery was an option to restore their vision. Thanks!
Hey Rob! Same, took him in as a foster while he was blind. Fell in love with him, then adopted him in December. Yes, he had cataracts. The surgery is fairly comon but obviously you have to find a specialist, and it's pricy. Between 6000.00 - 10,000.00 depending on where you live. The Weim Rescue Service already had a good chunk of that raised for whatever family adopted him so that made the decision a no-brainer. Recovery is about 30 days with a cone and LOTS of drops but now he can see great and is loving every minute of it.
Hope that helped Rob!
Mike J
@@mikeslessons Thank you for that info, Mike! Man, it sounds like you kinda got lucky with all that money they had raised. My dog has none of that and I can’t afford it, so I guess he’s staying blind. Haha. He’s not affected by his blindness, thankfully. If anything, we are more than him. Glad your pup is doing well! Thanks again for the reply. Love your vids!
Hey Mike, where can I get that practice pad?
LOVE this one 🫡
I'm a pretty new drummer, about a year,and trying to absorb everything i can. I stumbled on your video and really enjoy how challenging the exercise is, but i have a question about the notation. Its written as 4/4 time with 16th notes, but there are 24 notes in the measure. Am i missing something or is the notation not meant to be 100% accurate?
Mike I was trying to play it with you! I just can't yet! haha give me some time
I love shighidaboop exercises!
Love it!!!
This is a nice combo of rudiments! I tried changing the second paradiddlediddle with a six stroke roll and it was pretty cool too.
What is the pad you're playing on. I remember in past videos you were using the Reflex pad.
Still using the REFLEXX for most of my stuff but I felt like this exercise needed a little extra click. This is an old prototype that I made with Aquarian years ago. It also is white and everything in the scene was so dark I felt like the shot needed an extra pop of brightness. Hope that helps :)
@@mikeslessons Thanks Mike. I've been considering a new pad. I've been using the Ludwig P4 for 12 years. I was thinking about going to single surface again.
Boring??? This is gold, thank you!
THANK YOU!!!
Are the dogs weimaraner breed? Cool animals. If I was to get a dog, I think that's what I'd pick.
They are indeed! AMAZING breed.
you should name your dogs Neil and Peart with as much as they are all over those drum beats
Please , some words about this Super Practice Pad.
I WOULD LIKE TO BY THIS PAD, BUT WHERE?
I like these exercises! It sounds pretty musical, isn't it? 😊🥁