How to figure out and transcribe drum parts in songs [Progressive Metal]
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- [PATREON REQUEST #2] A simple method for quickly and accurately figuring out the drum parts to progressive metal songs with references to Tesseract, Periphery and Animals as Leaders.
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you're so full of knowledge and ability, Idk why your channel is so underrated :c anyway, I always try to share your videos everytime that I have free time to watch them
Wow thanks for going that extra mile and sharing my work :)
I had no idea you could do it this way, great vid!
Thanks Lachlan!! It's just my personal method for working a bit quicker through transcriptions
you are so damn good, helpful, methodical and diligent that its insane. i cant believe that to add to all of that, tesseract, p and aal are the exact 3 prog metal bands i love the most. incredible.
Seems like we hit the jackpot and thank you shucklesors, I love doing this for you guys!
Serious thank you for your breakdowns. I teach at a rock program and I'm primarily a guitar player so I've used some of your videos with some of my drummers. I'm also a Plini fan so I really appropriated the Electric sunrise groove video. You should do "kestrel" by scale the summit. It's a pretty sweet slow burn with a lot of really quick licks at the end. Hardly any drummers have covered it. Anyway amazing stuff!
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I'm thinking of doing a video about Plini's "Inhale" in the near future, I really dig the oddly syncopated middle section to that song. And wow I love it that guitar players like you are finding my videos useful and using them in ways I never imagined would be used. Keep rocking your rock program Spencer, I really appreciate your kind words and your sharing of my videos, I sincerely hope it helps those drummers :)
Best instruction video ever!
Dude this is so good! Been looking for a method like this for so long
Hey Brandon I'm glad I can offer you something helpful! You keep up your sick drumming you've got such a bright future being only 17.
This is absolutely brilliant. I’m totally trying this. Thank you!
Let me know if it helps honestly, or does not. I might need to come up with a better method if so :)
Thank you so much! I have been watching for about a year, and I have to say thank you so much for everything. These videos are made with passion and effort and thats all we need and you go above and beyond! I hope you hit that 5k, 10k, 20k, 50k, and 1m mark for subscribers. Keep doing great and I can't wait to see how far you go which you deserve very far and its been great to learn from you for the last year. I hope you have happy holidays brother! Thank you.
Is your username a reference to Tool? Anyway thanks for following me for the whole year! It's heartening to see people like you stick around, I feel like I owe it to you guys to keep improving my content so every video you see is better than the last. I'm going to hit 5K soon and I'll always remember you were in that 1st 5K, happy holidays brother!
Wei Lung Wong Yes, my name is a reference to tool. Haha and once again you’re doing everything right! Keep going man!
To answer your question: this way. I've never transcribed a song in my life so have no preexisting method. You've made it appear easy enough for me to actually give it a go now. There are some old Saosin tracks I've been meaning to sit down and actually learn.
Let me know how it goes with the Saosin tracks when you get down to them, which one are you thinking of starting on first?
I'm looking at "Seven Years" and "They Perched on Their Stilts....". Both have a lot going on and I've always bluffed my way through. It's time to get them both down note for note.
Nice I love the groove on Seven Years, all the best with the transcribing Nick!
best YT channel ever! and i think i'm not the onlyone thinking this. every video that i watched of you had 0.0000 dislikes. Keep up the amazing work!
I do have dislikes on quite a few videos actually. But it's really nice to get this encouragement and support from you Jesse, thank you so much :)
Thank you for the quality of your videos, I think this is going to help me learn how to transcribe very much!
My pleasure docterblack! let me know once you've tried it
Excellent approach!
Glad you like it!
Thank you! You are Brilliant! Your instruction and playing!
Thank you thank you ej, nice to see you around again!
More a great video. Merry Christmas, dude.
Thank you and Merry Christmas Moises!
Been waiting for anything on UA-cam on Exile! Nice work
Yo Andy! After youtube banned my Tesseract Nocturne video in 244 countries for a copyright issue a few weeks after I uploaded it, I was really skeptical for doing anything on Tesseract. It's like 2 weeks of effort just went down the drain. And funny enough, the existing covers of Nocturne on youtube that I've seen remain, so it's really puzzling as to UA-cam's copyright procedures. And why it affected my video and not others. SIGH I hope this video doesn't get blocked in the future. I'm glad you watched it!
Wei Lung Wong that's a bummer. Your videos for the drumming community are invaluable. Keep doing what you're doing, I'm a big fan.
Great video!!
Wow! Great video. Thanks for the explanation.
Grettigs from Ecuador
Greeting Robiezom! Thank you for watching and commenting :)
Very cool method of transcribing songs. BTW: What software do you use to show us the final tabs below your video? Thanks, and keep up the cool work.
I use Finale for my transcriptions, take a screenshot of it, and use Adobe Premiere Pro as my video editor to put it together with my video. Thanks for your compliments :)
@@ArtOfDrummingHQ Thanks for your input and keep on drumming :)
Thank you for making this!
You are most welcome!
Thank you for your video!!
my pleasure NDPH :)
Thank you! This will be very helpful :)
The pleasure is mine Jonas, let me know if you need any more help!
Sir you just solved many of my problems
Cool, I hope to solve many more of your problems in the future
Fantastic video!
Thanks Brian!
Lippincott has a backbeat, so it'd probably be easier to think of it as 2 measures of 4/4 (with a backbeat), and then one measure of 3/4
Oh yes that's also a very viable way to see it but I just like to base things around the melodic instruments most of the time, thanks for your input Tommy!
This video is fantastic. Like stated before you are a prodigy! I had made mention before getting lessons through Skype with you. You said at the time you were trying to set that up and it wasn't available at that moment. I was still interested and wanted to get get more info, so we can work together still!! Hear from you soon and hope your holiday season is going great.
Oh hey Michael, so sorry for not getting back to you on that, I had a trial skype lesson with someone in Cuba and it went horribly, the skype connection was really unstable, laggy and kept dropping out. In the end I had to cut short the lesson only 25mins in. And after that I never got down to fixing it because I was concentrating on these videos and my teaching day job and gigging and writing with my progressive metal band. Where are you from though?
But really I'm no prodigy, you guys are too kind, I just love doing what I do!
Wei Lung Wong I appreciate your that you're as humble as you are. I understand the connectivity issues though, that can always be rough. I'm from Illinois but I'd be willing to travel if necessary if you were in the states but I have business class internet speeds of 1+GB Download speeds where I'm usually at so maybe my connection would be more established. Either way you're someone who's changed my life and helped me understand things I never could learn from others. There much I don't know but I'm open to the wisdom of knowledge and your wisdom is one of a kind. I appreciate your time and If we can set something up, let's.
How do you figure out the spacing intervals so accurately? I'm new to this and feel like I'd misgauge the spacing somewhat regularly and end up having to shift everything left and right multiple times over while figuring out the correct spacing via trial & error.
Oh that's a great question. I understand that comes with training and transcribing a 100 songs. Well you'll get there if that's what you wanna do. My first song I could only transcribe 1 bar(in 1 hour) and I wasnt even sure it was correct hahaha. Just use this method as a stepping stone to a better ear and better transcriptions. And if you find a better method, ditch this :)
@@ArtOfDrummingHQ Gotcha, sounds like I just gotta work my way up then. Thanks for the tips!
So for me this video shows you how to transcribe the drum beats but it doesn't show you how to figure them out. I have found that when I am trying to figure out drum beats, mainly Blind Guardian songs from Night At the Opera album, I have a hard time hearing what's what. It's hard to transcribe and write down the drum beats when you can't figure them out LOL. Anyone have any helpful advice on the matter?
Hearing what's what meaning you can't figure out if it's snare or kick you're hearing?
@@ArtOfDrummingHQ yes, or splash or hh, and so on
Oh ok, then you need to train your ear to recognize exactly what those instruments sound like. Start with easier or slower songs, Blind Guardian songs are pretty dense in terms of drum parts and it can be very hard to identify everything when there's so much happening at once.
You can do that by watching drummers play because you can visually see them hit the snare or hat or tom or crash. And your ear will get better at it and you'll be able to then tell what instrument they're playing just using your ear. Then you also train for subtle differences in each sound, for example there are so many variations of what a hi hat sounds like from song to song. Kinda like there are so many different shades of blue.
When I was transcribing stuff very early on, 10 years ago. it took me an hour just to work out 1 bar, and I looped it hundreds of times painstakingly trying to guess the instrument and rhythm. But those hundreds of loops, became thousands, became millions after years of transcribing and therefore they were the basis of my ear training.
Hope this helps Jesse, feel free to shoot me any more questions :)
@@ArtOfDrummingHQ thank you for the helpful suggestions. I will utilize them and do my best. Do you have any input on how to make the drums stand out more in recordings, possibly buy adjusting EQ settings to make the process easier? Again thank you so much
Yes you can adjust EQ to target certain things. Like if you want to hear the cymbals more clearly, you can cut everything lower than 600-1000Hz. If you want to hear snare and toms, you can boost the low mids to mids. Kick drum is tricky and has a very broad frequency, but you can target the bass and boom at the low frequency ranges, the thud in the middle, and the punch and click of the beater in the high range. That's a rough gauge, as depending on song, genre and style, those can be quite different. Like Jazz has the bass drum and toms tuned up pretty high, and the kick drum is super obvious in most metal stuff, so it's hard to take it out to hear the rest of the kit.
It's my pleasure to share Jesse, any time :)
Wow, so simple
Try it on a part of a song you love and let me know how it goes
well i already did it on second part of an intro from Twelve Foot Ninja - One Killing Hand now i can just understand it more it not like im trying over and over again beacuse it takes a lot more time
NICE I'm glad it works well for you :)
But how do you find out difficult fast fills ?
Ahh that you have to slow the song down to 50% or less with the App I showed in the video. But it's the same, figure out the smallest subdivision of the fill, is it predominantly 32nds or triplets for example, and use your ears to guide you to each sound bit by bit.
Thanks for taking your time to help love your videos. really helpful. Ahh and whats the slowing down app called?
It's Tempo Slow, my pleasure to help :)
What is the software at 7:27?
Oh that's Tempo Slow Downer
@@ArtOfDrummingHQ thx
What app is that??
TheApostleofRock I too would love to know this
TEMPO SLOW, it's free! on apple and android
Thanks man! Love the vids
Thanks Zak!
Would this work for Tool songs?? It drives me nutts that I can play drums but can't decode that stuff!! 😣😭😔
I still don't get it