Hi, I saw your post on reddit and tough I know about this technique for quite a while I never gave it a try until now. When I try it slow and seperately it comes relatively natural. When implementing it in grooves and fills I often fall back to my usally used technique which is basically just ankle motion. Especially if I increase the tempo. Any advice on how to condition the brain to switch the technique? And what would you say what amount of time it takes to properly use double strokes 16th notes at 130-140 bpm? Which is my goal right now.
I think it’s important to know what to use each technique for and to know and use multiple techniques. I have a video coming out for this in a few weeks, but basically I find this technique useful for getting a lot of power out of the first stroke in a double (usually starting on down beats), and I only usually use it up until like 180bpm, before I switch to a slide technique (which also has a future video coming). When you increase the tempo past a certain point this technique will cause a lot of ankle strain and not be able to get to certain volumes. I have conditioned my brain to do this at these tempos before, and you really just have to think of the best that you drop the leg and start slow to build up speed - but I don’t recommend this past like 180bpm or so. For what you described with the double strokes, when I do double bass at those tempos I’d either use a swivel technique or continuous stroke heel toe, with alternating singles not doubles. I think the reason bass drum technique is so hard and frustrating is that you need to know multiple techniques for different scenarios. Which is why I think it’ll be helpful to make a technique series on all of them.
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@@spicybagels thanks so much! Glad it was helpful!
Very good - didn't quite get it until I saw your video which was simple and clear and clarified the 'not heel' idea.Many thanks.
@@TheKevinKitchen glad it was helpful!
You are one of the best who explained this technique. Thank you for the video
Glad to hear it! Thanks!
ty for this!! I’m finally trying to improve my technique so I’m excited to come back to this video and practice
@@lizzie3340 No problem! Hope it helps!
Excellent sharing of this very helpful and informative video my Big Brother James!!
Love and respect Kyle!! 😊🥁🇵🇭
Very nice!
Thanks for the video dude I just started teaching myself drums so I'll save this to a Playlist for when I'm at this point in my learning
Awesome!
Thank You!!
Hi, I saw your post on reddit and tough I know about this technique for quite a while I never gave it a try until now. When I try it slow and seperately it comes relatively natural. When implementing it in grooves and fills I often fall back to my usally used technique which is basically just ankle motion. Especially if I increase the tempo. Any advice on how to condition the brain to switch the technique? And what would you say what amount of time it takes to properly use double strokes 16th notes at 130-140 bpm? Which is my goal right now.
I think it’s important to know what to use each technique for and to know and use multiple techniques. I have a video coming out for this in a few weeks, but basically I find this technique useful for getting a lot of power out of the first stroke in a double (usually starting on down beats), and I only usually use it up until like 180bpm, before I switch to a slide technique (which also has a future video coming). When you increase the tempo past a certain point this technique will cause a lot of ankle strain and not be able to get to certain volumes. I have conditioned my brain to do this at these tempos before, and you really just have to think of the best that you drop the leg and start slow to build up speed - but I don’t recommend this past like 180bpm or so.
For what you described with the double strokes, when I do double bass at those tempos I’d either use a swivel technique or continuous stroke heel toe, with alternating singles not doubles.
I think the reason bass drum technique is so hard and frustrating is that you need to know multiple techniques for different scenarios. Which is why I think it’ll be helpful to make a technique series on all of them.
@@jamesmccarthydrum Thx for the reply!
Jesus christ, I didn't know a pedal could be so loose! 😮
I’ve always thought my feet were too big for this… turns out I didn’t need to use my heels to hit the pedal at all…
Yeah the name is definitely misleading! Jared Falk with Drumeo has a good video showing that foot size really doesn’t matter