Man, it sucks that this guy doesn't do videos anymore. Some of the best, most straight forward stuff on RUclips. And he legitimately might have the best sounding drums I've ever heard. Great player too!
Agreed. I would love to hear more of that in contemporary rock and even metal music. Today it's always either that low muddy "thud" sound or that tired old "gunshot" sample -_-
Here's how I was finally able to do this comfortably: After many failure attempts for the first groove, I realized something with my independence is wrong. So I put my pad infront of me and I started doing double strokes. As I was doing so, I accented the second note of each double. Easy peasy still, I know. Then I tried adding a foot on each unaccented note (the first note of each double) and that's when I realized that THAT! is the reason I couldn't do the groove. I COULDN'T PLACE MY FOOT ON AN UNACCENTED NOTE! Took it reeeaal slooow. Just double strokes, second notes accented and a bass drum on the unaccented. You do that and I guarantee you, the first groove will be peace of cake to achieve
Awsome Lesson Austin! Very clear. I love the idea of teaching the strong vs the weak beats on the bass drum without losing the groove of the hi-hat... then trying to make the weak beats feel just as good as the strong beats. Nicely done. Definitely gonna share this with my students.
A few years back I used to struggle with this... until my band wanted to cover Tom Sawyer by Rush. After that I can put the bass drum at any point in the time/space continuum no problem! xD
@@mattmarkus4868 I was making a call back to when he covered the song with some band on some cruise ship when he played eighth notes instead of sixteenths
Every video I've seen Austin publish has been enough above my skillset to push me past my current ability. I thought I had my 1/2 X shuffle solid. I've never put the bass only/all the ah's before, and it humbled me instantly. I still use his practice pad warmup before I begin practicing. I look forward to more videos. Thanks for taking the time to put to put these lessons up!
I've been trying to perfect that ghost note after the backbeat on the uptempo halftime shuffle for a year. I still suck.... yours is super clean! Thanks for the lesson...
Great video 👍 This is definitely much harder than you think when you’re looking at the dynamics of keeping it all uniform and in sync. Especially with the hi-hat. Thanks again!!
Austin, these exercises are a great way of isolating the difficulty in many grooves that I’ve struggled with. Hopefully they will get my 16th note stuff to a level that I’ll be comfortable enough to not concentrate so much and let it flow more. I’ve been watching your videos for a while and I don’t normally comment on stuff, but I gotta acknowledge the value of your video here. Thanks.
This guy is a great teacher. His hands warm up video is my go to warm up. His half time shuffle exercise, as well as the Moller upstroke bass drum exercise isn't as easy as some think.
OMG! This one did it for me. I immediately jumped on my kit and started practicing it. Cause I've struggled with those 16th notes and Bass Drum for years. Now I know how to work it out. For years I've wanted to learn the Purdie Shuffle. Here it starts!
Great lesson. I always enjoy your videos and that's a cool mini-panning effect during your explanations, makes it feel more virtual like you're almost in the room!
Austin, thx for a focused drum lesson. I'm a resurrected drum player after a 50 year hiatus, and now retired playing for pleasure and as a Hobby. This is great tip for coordination of hand and foot. My goal is to be able to equal the caliber of my playing to the level of say, Dino Danelli (Rascals). I play each day, to My Music : Petty, Mellencamp, CCR, Stones, Beatles, Cars, Shaw Blades, Capton, Melissa E., Eagles even Linda Ronstadt( probably the original Diva.....She was damn good and her studio band [some of whom beca e The Eagles], and more....basic Rock. Playing Music is a real pleasure in life. So I try to keep it enjoyable and not let it get to me by frustrating me. Be well all, halpy drumming.
I just bought a kit again after 20 years and am enjoying my drumming more than ever with some good stuff on RUclips but your lesson and style wins hands down. The two songs mentioned by others below (Tom Sawyer by Rush) and Rosanna by Toto).... cool. You just helped me crack these elusive beats. I really enjoyed your lesson. So concise and to the point, exceptionally well executed with great tips (and what a snare sound!!) You just got yourself a new subscriber from this one video. Thank you and looking forward to seeing more. :)
U have some good videos man. Thx for showing ur techniques. I played the snare for 3 yrs in school and I self taught myself on the kit. I'm not a pro or anything and it's always good to study other people's techniques. Carter Beauford was a drummer I looked up to highly. So him and Dave Weckl and Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan r pretty much the type of drumming I love. Thx again and keep'm coming!
That halftime shuffle! Thank you Bernard Purty!!! My Man! And this explanation with the bar line , very informative and i enjoy teaching style Thank you
Great lesson Austin. Went upstairs and worked on it right away. No problems with the sixteen note groove but the half time shuffle was a little tricky but I eventually got it using the push pull method on the hats. The dynamics sounded and felt great. Thanks man.
Great content as always Austin. This is something I’ve really been focusing on lately. Not only trying to eliminate flaming between my limbs but trying to sharpen my ears so that I can lock up a band in this way. For years I never realized that I had been neglecting such a crucial aspect of making a band sound good. Once I started getting chewed out by band leaders on paying gigs I realized I had to do some maintenance. I’d love to hear your take on listening intently to the players around you to eliminate flamming within a band mix.
Great idea. thanks for sharing. Always enjoy your posts. Another idea on the first exercise could be to run down say the first page of Stone, playing the BD where the left (or right) hand is notated, to give some more patterns to shed (e.g., what you showed would be the first two exercises of the first page of stone...with the BD playing the RH notes only, and keeping the HH going throughout and snare on 2 and 4). Keep up the great work!
i should've tried this before chiming in on variations. :) This is deceptively hard...to play it with limbs lining up and make it groove and move up the tempo. I played around with the first one a bit today...I've got a lot of work to do to get it up to an 'Africa' like tempo...
Regarding the half time shuffle example: Even trickier is putting the bass drum on the SECOND triplet, essentially mirroring the ghost notes on the snare.
I don’t even play drums but guys who do drums lessons always seem so cool and down to earth usually anyone doing guitar lessons is at least somewhat annoying
I remember a few months ago trying to learn "Inhale" by Plini, and it was really difficult placing the bass drum in all these weird places while keeping that 6/8 shuffle groove going on the hats. I still struggle playing it to speed, but it's a cool thing to work on. Troy Wright is an absolute beast! Too bad he isn't with Plini anymore. :(
I have just got this down. Been practicing drums for ten years and have developed quite a bit. But i starter notice that I changed my hi-hat hand During groves. Incredibly irritating and I couldnt stop me from doing that. But back to basic With practice like this i have now much more control.
Nicely played with good feel. The one thing that raises the value of this clip is the explanation of the role of brain functioning in conceptualising limb synchronisation.😀👍
Hey Austin....can you make a video .to break down a buddy rich fill.......its bugle call rag from drummerworld......the fill is at the 1.40 mark of the video
um 7 days is a 5/8 , the hi-hat plays 8th notes not 16th notes ;) There is a accent on every second quarter note on the hats which makes them toggle from down beat to up beat from bar to bar. It is a tricky groove , the 8th notes are pretty fast as well because the bpm is fast.. but they are not 16th notes , hth
this is awesome Austin, thanks so much! I've done similar exercises using Gary Chafee's permutations, and have seen much improvement in how tight things sound
Man, it sucks that this guy doesn't do videos anymore. Some of the best, most straight forward stuff on RUclips. And he legitimately might have the best sounding drums I've ever heard. Great player too!
Thats a beautiful snare sound! You’re really pulling the tone out of the drum. Great lesson as well, thanks 🙏🏻
seconded. that snare sound.....damn.
Indeed
Third..ed? That snare sounds sweet AF
Because most non millennials get pissed at everything millennials do and it's really fucking funny to watch.
@Jim A It's stupid A.F. for sure.
Maybe this is the most beautiful snare sound I heard on youtube in a long time!
Agreed. I would love to hear more of that in contemporary rock and even metal music. Today it's always either that low muddy "thud" sound or that tired old "gunshot" sample -_-
Maybe cut out a bit of the ring, but yeah, it's a great sound.
Here's how I was finally able to do this comfortably:
After many failure attempts for the first groove, I realized something with my independence is wrong. So I put my pad infront of me and I started doing double strokes. As I was doing so, I accented the second note of each double. Easy peasy still, I know. Then I tried adding a foot on each unaccented note (the first note of each double) and that's when I realized that THAT! is the reason I couldn't do the groove. I COULDN'T PLACE MY FOOT ON AN UNACCENTED NOTE!
Took it reeeaal slooow. Just double strokes, second notes accented and a bass drum on the unaccented.
You do that and I guarantee you, the first groove will be peace of cake to achieve
Well done!! Nothing more satisfying than finally being able to play something that you were previously unable to.
Awsome Lesson Austin! Very clear. I love the idea of teaching the strong vs the weak beats on the bass drum without losing the groove of the hi-hat... then trying to make the weak beats feel just as good as the strong beats. Nicely done. Definitely gonna share this with my students.
That snare sound is giving me goosebumps... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A few years back I used to struggle with this... until my band wanted to cover Tom Sawyer by Rush. After that I can put the bass drum at any point in the time/space continuum no problem! xD
I was just about to make a comment about Tom Sawyer. That'll teach you some foot independence for sure, unless you're portnoy!
Or Danny Carey lol
Nathan Worobey stop perpetuating that myth about portnoy. Please. He’s not a great drummer.
@@mattmarkus4868 I was making a call back to when he covered the song with some band on some cruise ship when he played eighth notes instead of sixteenths
@@mattmarkus4868 Also, he is one hell of a drummer. He's better on the drums than you are at anything.
It’s really about solidifying your eternal clock which is the next step
after getting down the dynamics & coordination!
Every video I've seen Austin publish has been enough above my skillset to push me past my current ability. I thought I had my 1/2 X shuffle solid. I've never put the bass only/all the ah's before, and it humbled me instantly. I still use his practice pad warmup before I begin practicing. I look forward to more videos. Thanks for taking the time to put to put these lessons up!
I've been trying to perfect that ghost note after the backbeat on the uptempo halftime shuffle for a year. I still suck.... yours is super clean! Thanks for the lesson...
It's tough man! It still gives me trouble... and traditional grip certainly doesn't make it any easier either haha.
@@abbdrums i think you nailed it for the vid lol, it sounds awesome
Great video 👍 This is definitely much harder than you think when you’re looking at the dynamics of keeping it all uniform and in sync. Especially with the hi-hat. Thanks again!!
Austin, these exercises are a great way of isolating the difficulty in many grooves that I’ve struggled with. Hopefully they will get my 16th note stuff to a level that I’ll be comfortable enough to not concentrate so much and let it flow more. I’ve been watching your videos for a while and I don’t normally comment on stuff, but I gotta acknowledge the value of your video here.
Thanks.
Thanks Andrew, glad you’re finding some value here :)
This guy is a great teacher. His hands warm up video is my go to warm up. His half time shuffle exercise, as well as the Moller upstroke bass drum exercise isn't as easy as some think.
Excellent lesson Austin! You're a great player and instructor. I'm a seasoned player, but you can never stop learning. Thanks for the inspiration.
OMG! This one did it for me. I immediately jumped on my kit and started practicing it. Cause I've struggled with those 16th notes and Bass Drum for years. Now I know how to work it out. For years I've wanted to learn the Purdie Shuffle. Here it starts!
Great lesson. I always enjoy your videos and that's a cool mini-panning effect during your explanations, makes it feel more virtual like you're almost in the room!
Austin, thx for a focused drum lesson. I'm a resurrected drum player after a 50 year hiatus, and now retired playing for pleasure and as a Hobby. This is great tip for coordination of hand and foot. My goal is to be able to equal the caliber of my playing to the level of say, Dino Danelli (Rascals). I play each day, to My Music : Petty, Mellencamp, CCR, Stones, Beatles, Cars, Shaw Blades, Capton, Melissa E., Eagles even Linda Ronstadt( probably the original Diva.....She was damn good and her studio band [some of whom beca e The Eagles], and more....basic Rock. Playing Music is a real pleasure in life. So I try to keep it enjoyable and not let it get to me by frustrating me. Be well all, halpy drumming.
Incredible lesson from one of the greats! Congrats, what you do for the drumming community is really amazing.
Worked on this a lot today, I noticed as soon as my grip was not correct it became impossible! thank you again that moller trick is cool!
I have my students practice so fresh & so clean for this. Great exercise & points/sounds here. Quality of execution is key 🔑 👌🏽🥁
You can also try the middle triplet on the shuffle. Bit more tricky but great for coordination & bd accuracy
Excellent lesson AND a great sound! Thank you.
i would kill for that snare sound
This helped me ruclips.net/video/ht2JgVdHQdw/видео.html
I just bought a kit again after 20 years and am enjoying my drumming more than ever with some good stuff on RUclips but your lesson and style wins hands down.
The two songs mentioned by others below (Tom Sawyer by Rush) and Rosanna by Toto).... cool. You just helped me crack these elusive beats.
I really enjoyed your lesson. So concise and to the point, exceptionally well executed with great tips (and what a snare sound!!) You just got yourself a new subscriber from this one video.
Thank you and looking forward to seeing more. :)
So your divorced now and can play drums when ever the fuk you like ?
U have some good videos man. Thx for showing ur techniques. I played the snare for 3 yrs in school and I self taught myself on the kit. I'm not a pro or anything and it's always good to study other people's techniques. Carter Beauford was a drummer I looked up to highly. So him and Dave Weckl and Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan r pretty much the type of drumming I love. Thx again and keep'm coming!
That halftime shuffle!
Thank you Bernard Purty!!!
My Man!
And this explanation with the bar line , very informative and i enjoy teaching style
Thank you
Great lesson Austin. Went upstairs and worked on it right away. No problems with the sixteen note groove but the half time shuffle was a little tricky but I eventually got it using the push pull method on the hats. The dynamics sounded and felt great. Thanks man.
Drums sounding so nice! Cool exercise, too. Simple but effective.
Great content as always Austin. This is something I’ve really been focusing on lately. Not only trying to eliminate flaming between my limbs but trying to sharpen my ears so that I can lock up a band in this way. For years I never realized that I had been neglecting such a crucial aspect of making a band sound good. Once I started getting chewed out by band leaders on paying gigs I realized I had to do some maintenance. I’d love to hear your take on listening intently to the players around you to eliminate flamming within a band mix.
Excellent demonstration Austin on just how simplistic exercises can improve the quality of your playing ay all levels.
Such a good exercise! Definitely going to be shedding this. Thanks man!
It’s feel so cool when I find videos that push me to go on the drums to practice more. Thanks!!! 🖤
Great idea. thanks for sharing. Always enjoy your posts. Another idea on the first exercise could be to run down say the first page of Stone, playing the BD where the left (or right) hand is notated, to give some more patterns to shed (e.g., what you showed would be the first two exercises of the first page of stone...with the BD playing the RH notes only, and keeping the HH going throughout and snare on 2 and 4). Keep up the great work!
i should've tried this before chiming in on variations. :) This is deceptively hard...to play it with limbs lining up and make it groove and move up the tempo. I played around with the first one a bit today...I've got a lot of work to do to get it up to an 'Africa' like tempo...
This video was very refreshing to watch, very clear explanation and practical exercise
Right on, man. I dig your videos. Thank you for the inspiration.
Regarding the half time shuffle example: Even trickier is putting the bass drum on the SECOND triplet, essentially mirroring the ghost notes on the snare.
Great approach, we need a series with precision lessons for every element! GO! :D
I don’t even play drums but guys who do drums lessons always seem so cool and down to earth usually anyone doing guitar lessons is at least somewhat annoying
That Snare sounds beautiful
It’s not simple at all to play that groove accurately as you did. Thank you Austin.
Great lesson as always, Austin. Thank you!
This is the type of beat that would have completely baffled in a song. Great video dude, extremely helpful.
It's cool seeing a drummer who also uses traditional grip! Cool exercise grooves
Man I wish I had these resources 30 years ago. Back then I listened to Steely Dan records to figure out feel, dynamics, time and precision.
This was a great idea. Your lessons are the awesome. Also the drums sound so nice.
Great lesson,thanks for sharing with us 👏👏
Looks easy cause you make it look easy!! Great job!!
As always, good playing, good instruction, and good sound production. Thanks.
Awesome exercise Austin! I'm going to try the 16th hand pattern and half-time hand pattern with bass drum doubles too.
Definitely adding this to my Practicing!
Exactly what I needed for the kick, you rule.
Can you provide with the sheet music for these
THE SHUFFLE VERSION WILL DEFINITELY HELP ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO PLAY TOTOS' ROSANNA BY LATE GREAT JEFF POCARO
why are you yelling
Mark White Well simply my dear IT IS ALL RIGHT
Varmando Varuso ASS
Excellent video Austin! Thanks for keeping doing it
Great training exercises! Especially like how you covered every aspect of hand and foot coordination.
Excellent exercise and great job teaching. I will certainly incorporate this into my practice.
So usefull and nice exercise . Thank you from Italy
Love that snare !!
2:45 is very Steward Copeland-esque :)
Great stuff! Your feel is really really nice, and that snare is SMACKING!
really cool thnks dude, youre the perfect combination of technique and groove/feeling
good one. Time functioning patterns is a great book to check out!
I was gonna say that too - this is similar to the fat back exercises from that book.
@@jc3drums916 Indeed!
That snare sounds amazing
Thank you for this lesson, great grooves
I enjoy playing the smooth criminal synth riff rhythm over basic beats.
Thanks Austin, i found your lesson quite useful
I remember a few months ago trying to learn "Inhale" by Plini, and it was really difficult placing the bass drum in all these weird places while keeping that 6/8 shuffle groove going on the hats. I still struggle playing it to speed, but it's a cool thing to work on. Troy Wright is an absolute beast! Too bad he isn't with Plini anymore. :(
Very useful lesson, thank you.
I have just got this down. Been practicing drums for ten years and have developed quite a bit. But i starter notice that I changed my hi-hat hand During groves. Incredibly irritating and I couldnt stop me from doing that. But back to basic With practice like this i have now much more control.
Nicely played with good feel. The one thing that raises the value of this clip is the explanation of the role of brain functioning in conceptualising limb synchronisation.😀👍
That snare drum sounds killer.
I like the notation for the ghost notes. Much better than using so many parentheses cluttering up the sheet music.
Thank you I'm going to start working on that with a metronome
Great snare sound!
Hey Austin....can you make a video .to break down a buddy rich fill.......its bugle call rag from drummerworld......the fill is at the 1.40 mark of the video
Great lesson thank you!
Great practice exercise!
A good song that incorporates a fast 16th hi hat pattern with variations of those kick pattern's is "Seven days" by sting
um 7 days is a 5/8 , the hi-hat plays 8th notes not 16th notes ;) There is a accent on every second quarter note on the hats which makes them toggle from down beat to up beat from bar to bar. It is a tricky groove , the 8th notes are pretty fast as well because the bpm is fast.. but they are not 16th notes , hth
Thanks Austin
That last groove is almost "Fool in the Rain." A classic that all drummers should know and develop!
Damn, this snare drum sound! How is this even possible?
Beautifull class!! Thanks a lot!!!
this is awesome Austin, thanks so much! I've done similar exercises using Gary Chafee's permutations, and have seen much improvement in how tight things sound
very cool exercises! best regards from germany!
THAT parallax shot!! Looks epic Austin. Always love your stuff. Do you mind me asking which slider you're using?
Thanks! It’s an Edelkrone SliderOne V2 with a HeadOne. Pretty nifty little system.👌🏼
@@abbdrums Thanks so much!
Muchas gracias muy buen video !
Great lesson! Thanks
That snare sound !!!
Excelente dica☺👍👏👏👏👏
Deus te abençoe🙌🙏
Extremely well done and very informative.
I was going to say your snare sounds incredible, but seems about 75 people beat me to it (the playing is a given) Always great
Thank you, Master
Super helpful! Thank you!
Very useful information.. Thank u sir
holy sheet dude, that triplets beat is awesome
Thanks man! Very helpful lesson
Hi There, would it be possible to place the transcriptions with your video's so l can print the page out to practice?
Great video! Is your camera on a robotic slider or something? Or is that an effect in post?
Yea it's a little slider system... Edelkrone SliderOne V2 + HeadOne.
Grateful.
I love the sound of yer snare. What one is it?