How To Master Playing To The Click 🏆🥁 With One Exercise!
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- This video explains and demonstrates how you can master playing to a click in any situation...with one simple exercise. Check it out! SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL for more great free drum lessons, tips, advice and cool product reviews!
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I remember being very humbled by a click once. I was brought in to play in a studio session for a jazz/funk group. It was a full band live recording with a huge horn section. Really good music. Before this I never really played with a click much other than private practice, but wasn’t very disciplined. When the music started, I started out ok, but as soon as I went for a fill, I was way off time. The band stopped 4 times, and was kind of annoyed with me. Luckily the conductor was really patient and very encouraging. I was beyond embarrassed. After the session, I went home and started practicing with a click and worked to become disciplined. It’s so important to use a click especially if you’re a drummer.
thanks for sharing. i need that reminder
Same here mate.. just got declined from a church band
I got humbled SOOOOO bad too. I had been playing for my childhood church for like 10 years and was killing it without it. Then I moved to a different church that's much bigger and had more professional musicians surrounding you, and they use the playback click, something I wasn't used to or had ever used in my 10 years playing. Well, from day one I was HUMBLED. different ball game
I totally felt that! I was humbled by a click too for a Youth Conference for our chruch organization. Three day conference, only made it one day and then I pulled out. I wasn’t ready or prepared. But since then definitely been getting all the knowledge I can get!
@@calebgatica8285u and me both dude…
BRO!!!😏 if some of these drummers really understood how important this lesson really is. And to all of my drummers out there, everyone had to start from "somewhere" that has gotten good on the drums. They wasn't born knowing how to play with a click etc lol, therefore practice really does makes perfect. This is gold Mr Rob, you're truly awesome in what you do my brother!🙂
Thanks much 🙂✌🏽
@@RobBeatdownBrown You're welcome bro, & thank you!!
This lesson is SUPER, SUPER IMPORTANT!! IT WORKS!! Maybe it just instilled in me the confidence to say "This drum sounds great!" My Gretsch 18" kick sound better than it ever has though, for SURE. I have a hole in it, and it aways sounded great mic'd, but now it sounds perfect, without mic'ing. Tuned low, no more Vic Firth pillow. Toms how have very natural resonance, not flat and dead like two weeks ago, at the last gig.
Bringing the concept of confidence when it comes to playing to the click is EXTREMELY relevant.
I always felt it’s more complicated than a practical issue. There is something deeper about this, the click could somehow be experienced like being deprived of your main role in a band or an orchestra. It’s like an unreachable horizon that will always be better at keeping time than you. It can make you feel that when it appears, it becomes in charge and takes the rhythmic lead above all the instruments including you, one of its subproducts.
The way you consider the metronome plays an essential part. It drove me crazy so many times, at some point I became scared of recording my drums and only anticipated failure, listening back only to catch all the small flaws instead of how it looks like from above.
The point being: the metronome will improve you and make you better on one essential aspect of your art, BUT in itself it’s pointless, it will never make music, and you should see it as a wave that you want to move along with, not as separate dots that individually remind you how not straight you are (and always will be).
Great job!
This comment really changed me, thank you.
Hi Rob,I think this is just what I needed thanks😊 to maybe see the “GRID”one day !🥳
I've only been learning the drums for about 5 months now. I've just been practicing beats and some fills. The other day I thought I'd try to play my first full song. After I learned the song and started playing I quickly realized my timing is terrible. I've hardly been practicing with a metronome. That will change now. I learned my lesson
I am all over TH-cam watching drumming instruction vids.... I keep coming back to yours..... they are simply the best. Great job Rob !!!
Bro, you are a monster!!! 👍👍💪🔥
One thing that help me to play to a click while playing a gig was to find a click pitch that didn't seem to blend into and be absorbed by what the other instruments were playing. Kind of like when you mix multi track and EQ so everything has it's own space. A lower pitch seems to work best for me. Then I just imagine the click is a procession player with really great time that I am interacting with.
What a wonderful and "put your mind at ease" way to show drummers how to use the click track and not be afraid of it. I tip my hat and I give you a hug as a drummer brother. In myh heyday in the 80s I got a lot of gigs by walking into a studio that I was called to and they didn't tell me who the artist was. They would ask me to go into the big room of Electric ladyland or the Record Plant and in the center of the room would be an electronic drum kit. The room is pretty dark I would put on my headphones and it would start begin different time patterns through the cans. Then the guy running the audition would say okay play a straight beat in 2/4. Then I would do that and they would either speed up the click track or they would ask me to go around the kit in time. If I could do it then they would complicate the time. or ask me to switch to a funk groove play some Clydie Stubblefield to The click track. Then we might speed it up really fast to 160 and asked me to play Disco beat or punk beat. On one occasion I did just that and the lights go on and Billy Idol walks out of the control room and he wants me to be his drummer. I got a bunch of gigs like that and when you get a reputation for being able to play to a click, and then learn how to play ahead of it and behind it, then when you're on stage your time is automatically better because those subdivisions are always with you. Wonderful way to introduce drummers to a click track. Using the click and learning how to read will triple or quadruple the number of gigs you will get. what a user-friendly video thank you Rob
Thank you Rob. How did you know I needed this?
"Train the brain." great advice.
Thanks rob , ive always been a little afraid of the click but it ain’t that tuff if you get locked in and mess it up a bit.
Great playing and some fab chops nice one thanks man 👍🥁
Getting ready to audition for a local cover band in about a month, and I'm pretty sure they play to a click track live which is something I'm not comfortable with. Gonna start practicing this!
How did that go
What? You make it seem totally effortless.
This is an ingenious exercise.
I'm a guitar player but will definitely be trying this technique.
You never know how important this lesson is until you play with a group of talented people who don’t understand the click. Love my band mates but I really need to be on my game or tempo is shot to heck.
As a drummer I have one job. Keep time.
2:20 Wait... thats illegal
it's "I'm Tweaked" by Vinnie Colaiuta :-) (basically)
Also wanted to note how good your video's look! The quality, the editing, the visuals, superb!
Thanks! 🙂🎥🎞
Great for feet workout as well .. feel the struggle.......thanks Rob!!!!!!
Good advice. The tempo definitely feels different depending on what you’re playing. When you stop it can seem to be faster. Very interesting.
Nice! Nice! Nice! Good work. Enjoyable & educational as always.
I have a very similar exercise where I start really slow at say, 60bpm with one hit per click, then two, then three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine & ten hits. Then back down. Then repeat faster. Haven't figured out eleven hits yet but it will come! As an added bonus, it also helps smooth out those singles strokes.
This is an excellent exercise I need to re-visit! Thanks for the reminder.
Gosh, I’ve been playing for 24 months; I cannot play WITHOUT a click (metronome) bc my tempo fluctuates too much on my own (6-8 bpm).
The click keeps me steady and within 1-2 bpm of the target click.
"... It's just highlighting one of the subdivisions I already hear...." so insightful... I hear them, but they're a little messy in my head... Getting there though... Thanks man... This is awesome
So simple, but super effective... another great vid Rob...
You are the Real Deal, Bro. Another awesome lesson. Thanks!...
You know I'm usually enraged to get a notification for some video i don't care about - but not for your vids sir.
Have been learning for about a year, your vids have been a big help.
Right on thank you
Once again you’ve helped me check a weakness off the list 🔥🙏🏼
Super awesome bro. Gonna be sending this to the drummers who play at our church!
Just joined your channel about a week ago you are a great teacher keep it going please .thanks
1:10 you see in his face he knows he's about to hit us with something slick 🤩
You break things down in such a simple and clear way that it instills confidence before the exercise has even begun!
Twoof...!
Yeah, like tuning drums! What a revolution that was for me, after 40 some years of trying to tune drums.
@@petevredenburgh8899 right?!
dude you´re a beast
First class video Rob this will help me in my pursuit of accurate time on the kit thank you bro
Great exercise Rob. I'll do it! Thanks
Love those shuffles.
Hey Rob I just love this one man, simply but one can get a lot of mileage out of the exercise! Nice job as always.
Great exercise! As others have mentioned I would also add to the grid the very hip 5 beats per quarter note (after the 16th notes and before 16th note triplets.) Billy Cobham's "Stratus" starts with him doing a roll with 5 to the quarter note, killer! There's also 7 beats to the quarter note as a possibility if you like the challenge. It's good brain food, some players choose to use them or it could happen spontaneously if it's in your vocabulary. It definitely helps one get more comfortable with odd times.
Another great lesson, Rob! Thanks
this is very helpful man. simple yet profound! Thanks man! :)
I have ALWAYS liked headphones when recording to a click track! That way the click is going straight in instead of traveling some 500 and some ft per second from the speakers to your ears!!
Wow!! There's a reason why drummers are called time keepers and Rob has some serious time chops.
Hah! This used to be my warm-up routine, sans the click but with quarter note pulse between feet on kick and hihat. Never thought of using this to practice click-tightness, gotta give it a go!
Hey Rob, I love your videos!! I love the way you explain and the feel when you play on the drums.
I don't know why but I am addicted to the sound of the practice pad :) and I love it that we could actually play along with you! Very cool
I play drums in a band and sometimes having trouble in keeping time. especially when moving from verse to chorus
I was suggested to play with a click and although I never really practiced with a metronome - I hope this video will encourage me to give it a shot.
Thinking about the reason for losing time (Besides that I need much more practice) - maybe because moving from verse to chorus it (usually) means to change hand position and/or because I hit harder and hitting harder can be interpreted as hitting faster...
I don't know if you mention this in any of your videos but maybe its something worth mentioning...
Keep up the good work.
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks for all your help, my problem is setting the click to different tempos when playing Country music and when counting in the tempo
Great exercise Rob, thank you 🙏
Btw what mixer are you using?
My drumming is so bad I make the click go out of time!🤣
Great subject man, definitely a timely subject for where I'm at.👍🏼
I use a click in practice, at shows and during recording sessions. I love being dead on.
God bless you - love this tutorial . Thanks for sharing . Can i support you in some way for your effort . All the best - Studio man Stiff
Thanks! And you sure can. Either through the donation button on my website or you can just hit the ‘🧡Thanks’ button right underneath the video to drop a tip in the jar 👊🏽🙂
I love your shit man ❤
Wow excellent , your drum sound wonderful :)
I learned those 16th triplets on guitar. Just say meedalee meedalee in between each quarter. I know sounds silly but it works.
I dig it
You da man Rob 🤘
Great video I'm sure almost every drummer has been humbled by a click before
I did the sort of the same as well but I depending on what subdiversion I was practicing I matched the tempo on the metronome so I would hear every click and I would practice playing the click away. It really forced me to be conscious of the 'space' between the executed notes.
Love it!
Is it worth practising quintuplets (groups of five 16th notes) between 16th notes and 16th note triplets?
Hangin’ out on your channel hopin’ some of your cool will rub off on me
Rob, thank you for this brilliant exercise! Do you have any tips on nailing the quarter note triplet? I can't hear it. I find that to be the trickiest one.
I mashed before I bounced, Rob
I play guitar. Glad I stopped here on your page. Triplets really fell into a groove I haven't recognized but heard and never gave it real thought. Now I will recognize triplets when my drummer is playing 'as triplets he's playing. I'm really trying to get the dam click off my recording. I want to use it but automatically being stuck in my recording, recorded destroying the entire song with click sound.
way2workit!
Thanks
and once you get comfortable with a click and the subdivisions you record it, you line up the audio with the DAW whole note and realize what you thought was "burying" the click was actually rushing or dragging...Its an ego check to spend dozens of hours with a click and felt you've nailed it only to find out your time is ever so slightly off. Trying to learn to intentionally press the beat, stay on top of it or get behind it can be very frustrating. I've found ZERO good lessons for the micro time adjustments...
I've sat with players that can play anywhere "on" the beat and its very frustrating to try to master..I think some of these players just have a better feel of time than the average person thats spent "10,000 hours" playing.
Keeping track mentally is probably just as important or most important comes down to listening
tbonez858 I agree with this. I didn’t realize it until I tried to record a full song with myself playing every instrument to a click. Every track was on the click but it still sounded off. I re-recorded playing off a drum then bass foundation by ear and it sounded like an actual song at the end.
@@user-fr3sx5uf6z indeed, I always try to consciously let the click dictate my actions and then it works.
I've been trying to improve using a click track. Last night an entire song I recorded was off by maybe half a second. I think i'm basically flam tapping with the track, any suggestions?
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Forgot to say ....THANK YOU ,
I hope students pick up on the unspoken foundation of your lessons, which is your positive attitude. They way you give permission to accept weaknesses as a learning tool is much like spiritual teachings that encourage embracing failure as a lesson, and the only thing preventing growth from failure is fear. Fearless drumming rules!
7:27
Nice vid. What mixeris that behind you?
Zoom LiveTrak L-12
Were you in an episode of The Office? Goodbye Toby? (Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger)
0:40 - 3:00 that click got beaten ;)
You'd think that playing to a metronome would be easy, especially if youve played drums for a while....but its crazy how frustrating it can be until you get used to it
You do that in a live situation you're going to get booed off the stage 😊
I lose a lot of opportunities because I don’t know how to master the click.🤦🏽♂️
Don't worry about playing at thousand miles an hour...doing this shit..gets u gigs !!!!!..forget how fast your double stroke roll is....play in time..money.. gigs..trust me
Is that really needed unless you're recording for a major label you sound like you could keep time find yourself without the
Something's wrong
I cannot for the life of me hear 1/4 note triplet.
Me too
Play 8th note triplets ("1-and-ah" or "Trip-eh-let"). Accent every other one. So if you are playing rlr lrl, then accent the R's: RlR lRl. Those accents are quarter not triplets. Hang out there. Get to where you can sing a melody and do it. Whenever you're listening to music, clap the quarter note triplet. You'll become friends with it.
Playing live to click track boring an useless you'll never push ur inner abilities if I'm playing to enegentic crowd I'm goin to push song a bit get in dancing if it's laid back crowd you'll stay in pocket had keyboard player once who wanted click track he's gone lol trust ur abilities an grow an you'll appreciate I can do it on it own
Personally, i DO NOT understand how you guys can play gigs without click
That intro was a clinic. I want to live in 16 th triplet
I absolutely love the way you teach. You instill confidence and break things down into easy to understand pieces - critical to being an excellent teacher and communicator!
My problem is that I can play to a click in my own practice time. But when I get in a band setting for some reason my brain won't lock on to it! I think it loses focus with everything else happening around me. I've only played to a click successfully one time. But I had to turn everything down and the noise was so piercing. It's very frustrating. I get off beat, try to adjust but then end up turning the click off cuz it's so distracting.
Been there 😑
State dependent learning. You practice in a chill state, but play in a hyped state, hence your body chemistry and psychology is different. Start doing something while you practice that you can do while playing live, like chewing gum. Or practice after exercising/drinking 5 cups of coffee.
Billsama Bin Clinten ...That sounds very plausible great idea
@@almostskater3210 that makes sense! Thx!
It can be a struggle, It’s also probably the band. Good feel is the entire band’s responsibility in the end. You can just suggest the good feel but they have to follow on the same page and not play anything before you.
I've been playing drums for 20 years now and been playing with clicks for about 5 years now and I'm still not comfortable even though I have to play with a click track every Sunday lol great video
You and me both bro
Your confidence with the click is inspiring!
Ideally, the whole band should be practicing to the same click, that everyone can hear, every time, until everyone's nice and tight on every song you're going to play.
Do you see value in also going in reverse order - from the 32s down to 1/4s?
jerry tanenbaum I believe there is. Anything is ok I guess as long as you’re working on your subdivisions with the click
Sure can if you wanna
There is a lot of value. IMHO reverse order is slightly more difficult, not unlike breakdowns. That's how I was taught this exercise - go up and then down without stopping, four measures of each rate. I also had to play the exercise with doubles and paradiddles. (At the quarter note rate, one double is two quarter notes,, and one paradiddle is four quarter notes.)
It’s fun to get up to 32nd notes then drop back down the subdivisions to quarters again.
I've always played my subdivisions up then down with the metronome.
Took me a WHILE to figure out what you did at 0:44 but I got it on tab. 😏
That one will take LONG before it sinks in 😆!! Triplets played as if they were 8th notes, ARE YOU MAD?
Thanks for making me want to pick up my sticks as always!! :D
I think Playing with a click is easy if you know the material. Have that click loud in your ears.
Thanks, Rob!
My favorite lesson yet! A lot of ground covered here. Thanks, Rob!
Been using a Tama Rhythm watch for a number of years now in the live environment. It made me an Ok drummer to a drummer people want to hire. :)
Broken down to simple form so even a luddite like me can figure it out. You're the man.
More great exercises, thanks!
I kinda got hooked on playing with a click while touring around with a hip-hop/electronic band. It just made more sense, and some of the keyboardist's delay effects were much nicer if I was at a precise tempo, for obvious reasons. Honestly I now have trouble feeling comfortable without it with a kinda theatrical comedy rock thing I'm doing now- a pretty analog situation. I'm working on it, counting and practicing more without one so hopefully I can get cozy soon.
I have a really tough time figuring out what to hit on which click or beep sound. Like do I hit my snare on the 1st click sound and the bass drum on the 3rd like the basic 4 count with every click having a hi hat hit going with the click? It's definitely a mental workout and I am absolutely determined to get this down confidently and perfectly consistent. I understand the part about playing beats around the clicks? I'm wondering what to hit on the clicks at the same time for the foundation and then laying the other beats (fills ect) between the clicks to fill up the metronome completely.? I'm going to be practicing your exercise as much as possible to get this down asap. My band and I need this asap. Thank you so much Rob BeatDown Brown!!! Your channel rocks!!!!
thats great man, wish i could play drums, always wanted to play drum past 50 years
Great lesson helped me alot yesterday on a recording session. I was able to nail it down thanks