The analogy you made was brilliant! I’ve been working on playing with intent both in my drum and guitar practice, you’ve really opened my mind here, thanks 🙏
When you reach the stage in your playing where you're no longer dropping or breaking sticks you have reached a pinnacle in your technique to playing the drum kit 🥁
No, that's a ducker we have on the system that mutes my vocal mic when I play. When I'm playing, you are hearing the kit, overheads, and room with no vocal. That vocal mic is not a good way to listen to drums lol
@@ChessmasterHex No, the settings are not off. The settings are there for teaching lessons, which is what I do 99.9% of the time. If a cymbal is played with no drums underneath it, it's not enough to trigger the ducking. So when playing that groove, the kick is missing at the top. Therefore the ducking starts to come back up. For teaching, we try to make it a gradual up and down and not an abrupt in and out. Tried it both ways and gradual is much better. You will notice all of my teaching videos are like this. If it were a song, a final mix, etc. I obviously wouldn't use this setting. It's just there for streaming and being able to record quickly. I've been doing this for 15 years and have tried it a billion ways...this one enables me to get the most content out. Not a perfect system, but most of the time it works great. Hope that helps!
The analogy you made was brilliant! I’ve been working on playing with intent both in my drum and guitar practice, you’ve really opened my mind here, thanks 🙏
Beautiful drum kit color/Great lesson, Stephen !
Thanks!
Amazing Nice Fantastic lesson. I totally agree. 😍🔥
Thank you my friend...so glad it helped
LOVE that thin 'Constantinople' Ride Cymbal ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤I like all of my cymbals, thin and crispy ❤❤❤
I think this is the main reason Bonzo was so good.
100%
Very helpful video,i play only on center of a snare drum,rimshots is very hard for me but very loud.
Yea, they're a great way to get volume. Good tool to have in your toolbox
When you reach the stage in your playing where you're no longer dropping or breaking sticks you have reached a pinnacle in your technique to playing the drum kit 🥁
Hitting with intension.. “If you don’t feel it don’t play it.” James Jamerson
😂😂😂😂😂😂The stiff-armed-monkey-mode playing 😂😂😂Love it !
Sounds like your compression settings are completely choking out the ride cymbal at low volume when you also play the kick.
No, that's a ducker we have on the system that mutes my vocal mic when I play. When I'm playing, you are hearing the kit, overheads, and room with no vocal. That vocal mic is not a good way to listen to drums lol
@StephenTaylorDrums So the ducker settings are off then aren't they, just listen to the ride pulsing at 3:33, that does not sound good.
@@ChessmasterHex No, the settings are not off. The settings are there for teaching lessons, which is what I do 99.9% of the time. If a cymbal is played with no drums underneath it, it's not enough to trigger the ducking. So when playing that groove, the kick is missing at the top. Therefore the ducking starts to come back up. For teaching, we try to make it a gradual up and down and not an abrupt in and out. Tried it both ways and gradual is much better. You will notice all of my teaching videos are like this. If it were a song, a final mix, etc. I obviously wouldn't use this setting. It's just there for streaming and being able to record quickly. I've been doing this for 15 years and have tried it a billion ways...this one enables me to get the most content out. Not a perfect system, but most of the time it works great. Hope that helps!
@StephenTaylorDrums Quantity over quality, now that I can respect! Lol
Lol, not in everything, but it works here
Difference between music & just noise