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Noah Alexxander
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Добавлен 14 ноя 2023
Denver based artist, songwriter, producer, and educator Noah Alexxander is a multi-instrumentalist who grew up in a music household, playing drums his entire life. He has been a professional drummer and music educator for 10 years, and enjoys helping people push through to the next level.
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www.noahalexxander.com for lessons, merch, and announcements.
Instagram @noah.alexxander
Stream solo music on all platforms under Noah Alexxander
This Bass Drum Technique Will Revolutionize Your Playing
This is the ultimate bass drum technique video. I cover everything from setting up your bass pedal, heel up and heel down technique, playing fast doubles, triples, and quadruples, correct posture, burying vs not burying the beater, and more...WITH EXERCISES. Hopefully this one covers all you need!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Pedal Setup
2:44 Proper Posture
3:19 Burying vs. Not Burying
5:37 Heel Down
7:06 Heel Up
8:05 Heel Up Taps
8:25 The Leg Drop
8:48 Fast Doubles
10...
Sign up for lessons with me!
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Stream my music on all platforms - Noah Alexxander
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Pedal Setup
2:44 Proper Posture
3:19 Burying vs. Not Burying
5:37 Heel Down
7:06 Heel Up
8:05 Heel Up Taps
8:25 The Leg Drop
8:48 Fast Doubles
10...
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Loops Will Make You Better At Everything
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.Месяц назад
Building vocabulary on drums takes time, but building and practicing rhythmic loops will make that process much faster. This exercise will also help with your timing, independence, and rhythms as well. This drum lesson walks you through the three step process of building a loop and using it to its full potential. Its a fun exercise. Download the free PDF From This Lesson! www.noahalexxander.com...
Fix Everything With One Accent Exercise
Просмотров 7612 месяца назад
The four fundamental stroke types are so important, and most people don't know they're bad at them. If you are struggling with speed, fluidity, dynamics, stick control, or anything else, mastering these will push you in the right direction. This drum lesson takes you through the technique, as well as an amazing exercise that will help you get where you need to go. Download the free PDF From Thi...
Creating Better Drum Fills Quick & Easy
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.2 месяца назад
Developing better drum fills doesn’t have to be complicated. The first step is to try new things, then slowly keep changing up your variables. This drum lesson focuses on how different stickings and orchestrations on the set will take your fills to the next level. Sign up for lessons with me! www.noahalexxander.com/lessons Follow me on Instagram! noah.alexxander Stream my music o...
The Gear Shifter | Using Every Fulcrum To Your Advantage
Просмотров 7 тыс.3 месяца назад
Everyone is obsessed with which fulcrum you should use on drums. Middle fulcrum? Front fulcrum? Back fulcrum? Well, you should really know how to use all of them. Stick technique and fulcrum is kind of dependent on what we are trying to achieve, and every fulcrum specializes in something we need. This drum lesson takes you through each fulcrum, as well as shifting between them for our benefit. ...
Develop Your Drum Chops and Dynamics Quick & Easy
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.3 месяца назад
Building drum chops doesn’t have to be complicated, especially when developing twitch muscles. Tap builder is a relaxing exercise that works on your chops, dynamics, technique consistency, and timing all at once. It forces you to pay attention to your groupings, especially the odd groupings, making your timing muscle memory stronger. Its one of my favorite exercises to rep with students. Sign u...
Developing Right Hand Independence On Drums
Просмотров 4493 месяца назад
Developing drum set independence on all four limbs is the most important wall to break through. This lesson takes you through how to master independence with your lead hand, opening up the door to play whatever patterns you can think of on your hats. Download the free PDF From This Lesson! www.noahalexxander.com/youtube-content Sign up for lessons with me! www.noahalexxander.com/lessons Follow ...
Developing Fast & Seamless Paradiddles Quickly
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.3 месяца назад
Every drummer knows what a paradiddle is, but for them to be useful, we have to make them seamless. This drum lesson will teach you how to break down the paradiddle, resulting in the fastest method for getting them up to speed. Download the free PDF From This Lesson! www.noahalexxander.com/youtube-content Sign up for lessons with me! www.noahalexxander.com/lessons Follow me on Instagram! instag...
The #1 Problem Drummers Have | How To Fix It
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.4 месяца назад
Many drummers I see in my lessons are struggling with a number of things, and the root cause is bad full strokes. Full strokes are the most fundamental stroke type to really understand, and without using them properly, we sacrifice speed, fluidity, sound quality, and control. This drum lesson takes you deep into the mechanics of full strokes, and shows you what to avoid! Sign up for lessons wit...
5 Bad Habits That Are Holding You Back On Drums
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.4 месяца назад
Bad habits on the drums are hard to break, but the last thing you want is to injure yourself. These habits are also holding you back from getting better. Some of these take time and work to fix, but in the long run, it might be the best thing you do for yourself. Sign up for lessons with me! www.noahalexxander.com/lessons Follow me on Instagram! noah.alexxander Stream my music on...
Level Up Your Fills With Macrorhythms
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Make your drum fills more interesting and less repetitive with the macrorhythm approach! Its easy to get stuck playing the same patterns and fills, especially if they work. But you can easily spice up your playing with these concepts, allowing you to easily switch between simple and complex, all while keeping the same skeleton rhythm. Download the free PDF From This Lesson! www.noahalexxander.c...
Fastest Method For Beginner Independence
Просмотров 8775 месяцев назад
For beginner drummers, independence can be a tough wall to break through. Especially sixteenth note independence. This drum lesson will take you through the methods and grids for syncopation, so that you can start playing whatever you want much faster! I go through things a bit quickly in this video for time. Be sure to sit with any part that is giving you trouble for a while. Muscle memory com...
Add Quintuplets To Your Vocabulary
Просмотров 9925 месяцев назад
Fivelets/Quintuplets are cool. This lesson will develop your fivelet timing, and show you how to use them for beats and fills around the drums. Download the free PDF Exercise Sheet! www.noahalexxander.com/youtube-content Sign up for lessons with me! www.noahalexxander.com/lessons Follow me on Instagram! noah.alexxander Stream my music on all platforms - Noah Alexxander open.spoti...
Odd Time Signatures Made Easy and Useful
Просмотров 7825 месяцев назад
Odd time signatures can be confusing, and a lot of people will simply tell you not to use them. This drum lesson will show you how to easily get through them, make them usable, and make them groove! Knowing how to play in odd times is an important skill. Don't limit your creativity, expand it. Sign up for lessons with me! www.noahalexxander.com/lessons Follow me on Instagram! noah...
Perfect Ghost Notes Techniques and Exercises
Просмотров 3,6 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Proper ghost notes are an important aspect of being a good drummer. Without them, everything sounds flat and bland. This drum lesson will teach you the techniques we need to make them sound musical, as well as the simple exercise to master your independence. Download the free PDF exercise! www.noahalexxander.com/youtube-content Sign up for lessons with me! www.noahalexxander.com/lessons Follow ...
Unlocking Drum Set Creativity With Rudiments
Просмотров 25 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Unlocking Drum Set Creativity With Rudiments
Fastest Methods For Perfect Timing On Drums
Просмотров 3,3 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Fastest Methods For Perfect Timing On Drums
The Fastest Way To Build Hand Speed
Просмотров 15 тыс.6 месяцев назад
The Fastest Way To Build Hand Speed
Drum Mic Setups For Any Budget - 1, 2, 4, and 8 Mic Variations
Просмотров 2617 месяцев назад
Drum Mic Setups For Any Budget - 1, 2, 4, and 8 Mic Variations
How To Play Perfect Doubles And Drum Sweeps
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.7 месяцев назад
How To Play Perfect Doubles And Drum Sweeps
How To Use Stick Control For Drum Set
Просмотров 8957 месяцев назад
How To Use Stick Control For Drum Set
Linear Drumming Patterns and Techniques
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Linear Drumming Patterns and Techniques
What You Need To Know Before Buying Used Drums
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.7 месяцев назад
What You Need To Know Before Buying Used Drums
Triple Double Timing Exercises | Master Rate Changes On Drums
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Triple Double Timing Exercises | Master Rate Changes On Drums
The Greatest Drumming Tool Everyone Has in their Pockets
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.8 месяцев назад
The Greatest Drumming Tool Everyone Has in their Pockets
Using Metric Modulation as a Creative Tool
Просмотров 2 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Using Metric Modulation as a Creative Tool
Three Note Patterns You Need To Master
Просмотров 4,7 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Three Note Patterns You Need To Master
How to sound like a professional on the drums
Просмотров 7 тыс.9 месяцев назад
How to sound like a professional on the drums
Expressive Dynamics Come From Good Technique
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Expressive Dynamics Come From Good Technique
Fix Everything On Drums With Good Strokes
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Fix Everything On Drums With Good Strokes
Man Merlini does finger controlled singles at 220 with ONE HAND 😅
First! :)
Awesome sauce
I understood at least %75 of what you were saying. Still trying to learn the language of music, then I can understand and apply the lessons.🤔
I still consider myself a beginner. I started off burying the beater. Then I tried not to. It's impossible not to bury the beater. You could say I just need to practice it more but I'm being stubborn and I'm not going to lol.
I've been playing for 14 years and started off not burying the beater with high spring tension but recently started burying the beater after noticing many drummers I like also bury the beater. It helped to make some adjustments to my pedal (looser tension and smaller angle to the batter head) and my playing feels way more grounded than it used to. There are probably lots of great drummers who don't bury the beater and maybe for some styles it's good to be able to do both, but imo it just feels way more solid to bury the beater!
@@matticus24yum I messed with my pedal a little bit after I got the feel for it. Then I was afraid to touch it. I had the spring tension fairly tight. Just the other day I started playing around with it again. I loosed up the spring and it feels better to me. I also moved the beater closer to the head. At least now I'm not afraid to change the settings and see what works the best.
@lobbyrobby awsm! At least it didn't take you 14 years to start exploring different pedal settings gahahah! I upgraded to a dw9000 a few years ago and also didn't want to mess with settings, but glad I eventually did, crazy how much of a difference it makes
Great material --as always!
Always thought I was doin slide, when apparently I was really doing this. Never made the distinction, I guess. Cool vid 👍️
great usefull information , you have a very efficent way of teaching , thanks
Great Video! Love all the details included!
Looks like you've got more guitars than drums! Are you sure you're a drummer or just a frustrated guitarist?!?
I am drumer but still have 3 guitars lol. And only one drum (snare)
@@RedToxy-rc7evYou're just a drumer, then, not a drummer. One snare and one m.
I see one guitar and one bass up there lol
@@rayboreham2648 how we need to calling terry bozzio then?
Man, if you think that's a lot of guitars...I'm not telling you how many I have.
the ending remarks are golden
This is great. I'm going to start working on this
Reich it up!
I have a habit of doing this in the bathroom air drumming
Noah. One of the best teachers I've ever had. You have no idea who I am. I've just absorbed your video teachings. Thank you.
This was incredibly helpful. I thought I was only supposed to use the “proper one”, but it didn’t always make sense, or feel comfortable. Know I see that it’s just a loving family of grips to be used as needed. Thank you!
any tips on playing effective doubles on low tuned snares?
If there's no rebound, you just gotta stroke them out. Same approach to low tuned floor tom.
Hey Noah, great video, helped me alot but what about traditional grip...............I'm old school.
Thank you 👍😁
As always, thank you. 👍😁
Found my drum teacher!
Thanks
Thank you!!
Playing with dynamics is hard!
Ok man.. look: this is hugely useful information packed in a direct, no nonsense format and I cannot thank you enough for it! BUT the delivery format, man!.. it makes one’s head spin! You have edited-out ALL the natural breaks in speech (as in a commercial) and this makes it really hard to follow, and for the brain to connect, to the point of becoming a little frustrating. I’m no video editor expert, but from the point of view of information delivery, for it to become knowledge, I can tell you this is not working well - the brain needs space to take-in stuff and also for the images to be fluent without so many “hops” in order to be easily digestible. And it doesn’t improve much when pausing the vid either. It is similar to playing too many notes on the drums with the band - space is equally important. If your concern is ending up with a too long video, then why not consider making a short where you summarize and structure the ideas schematically and link it to the long version which needs to be much more “relaxed”, without unnecessary talking either: consider introducing intentional breaks (maybe having a quiet musical soundtrack in background and raising its loudness during 1s or 2s pauses). Again: having short, natural space added and repeating the main ideas summarized once, can go a loooong way in followers experience.
Excellent breakdown of the essential strokes and how to master them.
Great vid!
Love your exercises! So much content in so little time. Thank you 🥁
Very helpful 👍👍👍
Very good explanation of basics 👏👏👏
Showing the angle from the drummer's POV would be more helpful.
Noah, it was one of your early videos that made me deep-dive into my grip. Moving the thumb around, trying different levels of pressure, low contact to high contact. And I’ve found amazing sounds by doing this, snare drums and cymbals sound very different, in a very good way.
This will be the video that helps me transcend my limits. Thanks fam🔥
Regarding the grip: You said to always keep your thumb across from the index finger even when the fulcrum shifts. But then you say you like to use the middle finger fulcrum, and in that case, the thumb is more across from the middle finger. Confusing!
You don't have to have your thumb across from your middle finger for middle fulcrum. A lot of people say you do, and you can, but thats not the approach I use. I keep everything in the same place for every fulcrum. Its a touchy subject for some people, but my video from last week touches on it a bit.
Good stuff. Hear me out on something tho. This is a great video for beginners like myself but you say and show what the beat is. Then 2 minutes later your not playing that simple beat. You're adding a bunch of ghost notes and whatnot. I realize it's not the end of the world but for a true beginners that would be confusing.
Maybe it would be, but hopefully it wouldn't be. The focus is really on two beat fills, and its a concept that should be explored after drummers are comfortable with counting and playing beats in time. I hear you, though!
Awesome content! You really helped me with ideas!
I’ve been playing for almost 1 year-1/2, and although I’ve gotten fairly proficient in other areas, my fills are my main weakness, since most of my focus has been on groove. This is the perfect lesson for someone like me. Thank you and love your content.
Aside from Bill Bachman’s technique series, this is the only other video I’ve watched that covers this topic. Really concise, too! I spent a long time trying to “correct” my grip which felt very unnatural. I think there’s a tendency to oversimplify things like this. I understand that it can become a point of too much focus in place of other things that are arguably more valuable, such as phrasing and vocabulary, but in a bid to develop a well rounded technique I believe this is a fundamental problem that should be addressed early on. At the very least, it saves a lot of time and potentially injury from thinking there’s a good and bad way to hold the sticks. I tried sticking to a rigid first finger fulcrum and frequently experienced thumb pain, then tried exclusively middle finger which eased that but then made it harder to play faster, more nuanced patterns. Great video, thanks!
Bill Bachman is a technique icon. His books opened up my mind and really helped my hands when I was younger.
This video is unreal. Been looking for something like this for a long time!
This topic needs to be adressed by us the drummers. Seriously, it's a fundamental subject when trying to play to the drums and almost no one talks deeply about it. All what you hear is wrist technique or finger technique, hand position on the stick and that's it. But it's a shorten version of the complete explanation. Thanks for the video.
I'm a fairly new drummer. My stick in my right hand is always flying out haha. It seems like it happens a lot when I first sit down at the kit. The good news is apparently my grip is relaxed
Been watching your channel for a while now, very impressed with your teaching and your skill, thanks for the great work !
I was glad to find the middle fulcrum a while ago. I had been just using front and pinching the stick too much, the middle is helping be have a looser grip and keep my fingers on the stick. especially my weak left hand. Great Video, subbed.
Great lesson!
Really good descriptions & explanations. Good job man! Seriously. 👍
took some time to discover back fulcrum. Tony´s favorite! :D
Thats where I first learned about it! If its good for Tony, its good for everyone.
"The wood of the stick resonating is a big part of a good, open sound." Yes, but keeping all fingers on the sticks at all times inhibits the sticks' ability to resonate. I can understand wanting to keep all fingers on the sticks if it gives you a better sense of control, but it's a bit of a strange editing choice to bring up two somewhat contradictory pieces of advice/info back-to-back. If you want to maximize stick resonance, there should only be three fingers (thumb, index, middle) on the sticks (not counting rear fulcrum, of course). Develop all the fundmaentals this way, and use the rear fingers only when necessary for the sake of control. Watch any of Murray Spivack's students - Louie Bellson, David Garibaldi, Chuck Silverman, the Wackerman family, etc. - to see it in action. That said, control is more important, and if you feel you don't have enough control with a three-finger grip, use all your fingers.
The stick can resonate with all of your fingers on it as long as they're relaxed and you're not squeezing whatsoever. Having 5 vs 3 fingers on the stick shouldn't change anything, otherwise the stick would never resonate while in contact with our hands. Spivack is an icon, though. I do agree with that.
oh shit need to detail watch this, but if this is what I think he might be onto something very important that I've been too lazy to make a video about 🤣
I'm working on the material to further expand on this concept, its something I haven't seen many people talk about. Uncharted territory so I want to get my words right!
@@NoahAlexxander nice! My only question after watching most of the video, and this is something I go back and forth with in my own teaching is "is practicing each of these techniques as its own thing 'over-fitting'? i.e. would it be most efficient to just simulate the playing situation where they're applicable and let them develop emergently, spot-fixing any inefficiencies that come up." it's an ongoing debate in my own head, soooo
@@8020drummer I think its overfitting to put too much focus on it for sure. I rarely cover these topics so deeply in my lessons unless I think I have to (especially with younger students). I usually like to explain how the mechanics work, then just let it happen naturally. But I think having an understanding of what it feels like to use these techniques is valuable.
@@NoahAlexxander 🔥🔥
Clauss Hessler talks about this a lot too.
Awesome video! Emphasizing something that is so important and unnoticed by many people. A question I always had is if using pure middle fulcrum allows you to make a clear close roll? or is it indispensable to use the index pressure to make it possible?
If you work on keeping your hands relaxed and using the right motion, you can get a closed roll from middle fulcrum just as well as front fulcrum. It should give you a fuller sound, too.
Two nit-picky disagreements: 1) That there's a difference with how much each grip lets you "open up." If anything, I've had the opposite experience: more facility with powerful and large, upstrokes via the rear fulcrum. Have you practiced "snapping" the stick up with the last two fingers? 2) I question whether there's much point explicitly developing a middle finger fulcrum when you develop the front and rear. First because it's a bit "jack of all trades master of none" and for most things where it works better than front, rear works even better (and vice-versa). And second because, if you develop the front and the rear you tend to develop the middle anyway even when you aren't really trying to. At least, that's what happened for me.
Yeah honestly I didn't spend much time "developing" these fulcrums, rather over time understanding how to use them. This video is about understanding what they are and where they come from.
On the contrary, because middle fulcrum is less specialized, more general-use, it should be learned first. It's faster to get the fundamental strokes down without also worrying about different fulcrums. Work on front and rear fulcrums later, when you want to go further, if you want - they're great, but not necessary for everyone. You'll always have middle fulcrum to fall back on.
@@jc3drums916 It's faster to get the fundamental strokes down with the front fulcrum than with the middle. So you learn that first and then the rear fulcrum. In the process you get the middle fulcrum for free. It's obviously the most efficient pathway for learning.
This video feels like a godsend, I've been struggling the past 2 weeks because I didn't understand how to integrate technique into playing fast doubles, and the crab claws tip you gave just opened my eyes, THANK YOU