The Practicing Mindset that Will Blow Your Left Foot Coordination Wide Open
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2020
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This approach really will blow your coordination wide open, and this is a specific, concrete method you can apply to EVERYTHING you’re practicing right now. I’ll show you exactly what I’m talking about, how to master this step-by-step, and how learning this will help every area of your playing as well. YOU CAN DO THIS.
The big concept we’re looking at today is this: You can add various left foot patterns to any groove you already know how to play… in order to add a new layer of challenge to the groove. This is a super fun, interesting way to work on left foot independence and all-around limb freedom. Enjoy the lesson, and grab that PDF to take with you to your practice room.
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Growing up and playing music in bars by ear only has left this 65 year old a lot to learn,we certainly didn't have free drum lessons on line,just wanted to say thank you for sharing all the secrets you have gathered. You are a very good teacher, explain things well and you let drummer know what they need to get were they are going,I'm still going at 65 and wish we'd been friends 40 years ago thank you sir.
I played in bands during high school and my early 20's. Metal, punk, grunge. Then I stopped playing. Fast forward 25 years and I picked it up again. Not as easy as riding a bike but not completely lost with it. So I'm youtubing trying to learn myself a few bits and I keep coming back to your channel. Very knowledgeable and done in an easy to pick up manner. Thanks!
Enjoying the “coach” tone trying to pump me up. Rock on!
These videos are super helpful! You are always posting new and interesting ways to improve my drumming. Awesome!
Nice lesson Stephen! Always need to coordinate! 🥁❤
Love the no BS approach to your videos. Always right to the point with practical tips & lessons explained & demonstrated in a completely accessable way. Thank you 🤘
Thank you for your insight, and for the meaningful content. Very much appreciated. Peace.
Thanks Got the pdf and will definitely work on this.
Great video! Thanks for posting this advice.
Thanks for the tip
Absolutely awesome man. Great drumming, great lessons. Those drums sound thiiicc.
Good stuff Stephen. Thanks.
Dude! Thank you. Got my first ekit set up 2 weeks ago. I've always been a drummer at heart and now I have an instrument to realize just how uncoordinated I am with my left foot. Going to add this to my practice routine. Thank you!
Really like your videos, thanks for the tips!
This are great practical excercises!
I have tried some of your methods and it worked great 👍.
Hey Stephen this is Robert thank for the video
Love it !!!
I'm almost 48 years old. I have been a guitarist since I started at 16 years old. I have always had a passion for the drums. I even named my daughter SABIAN. I bought a very expensive Pearl drum kit and I outfitted it with you guessed it! SABIAN cymbals. 22 of them. My kit is 4 times the size of yours. I would like you to address double bass pedals. I bought 2 of them. One stays under my desk for constant practice and the other one is on the kit. Thanks for the content you provide! Every little bit helps us.
Already working on that for a couple of months, and beginning to get there, slowly. What help me at the beginning is not worrying too much about the quality of the sound of the hi hat, just hitting it perfectly on time. So i was hitting my left foot really hard, which was not that musical. And now, im working on refining the level, and play it with control of the volume of the chick, which is hard because that left foot is so undevelopped. But yeah, i think workin in two steps like have help me in the long run. Anyway, thanks stephen
WHY DONT YOU HAVE MORE SUBSCRIBERS?
You are literally a free professional drum teacher
Hey bro,I just wanna say your personality is laid back,and basically,but techniquelly easy learn..thanx
My favourite drummer is Roger Taylor of Queen. I’ve seen comments from people who don’t like the sound of his hi-hat, but it’s one of my favourite things about his playing (all his cymbal work, actually. He’s the best cymbal grabber! 😝). Your open note hi hat reminded me of him. I keep trying, but somehow I always hit the stick too early or late with the foot to get that great sound.
Great lesson!, at least for me. Poot Tom, Led Zep. Tough enough, but he adds the LF &'s, and it becomes incredibly tough. I need to work on this coordination, it's a whole different feel
Hi hat is an amazing thing 👌
Cool brother cool 😎 timekeeping with your left foot is more prevalent with jazz but excellent with rock as you can see John Bonham used very well ,Thanks for your time 🤘✌
Ha ha love it👏I love my left foot already👍my right is a problem 🤣🤣
I actually started learning left foot coordination by figuring out how to play the groove at 6:26 from a song. It helped me realize i could be practicing my left foot a lot more.
So I ended up just trying to play a bunch of grooves I already know and just playing quarter notes with the hi-hat pedal. Definitely helped me make a lot of progress in keeping time and coordination. I'll have to try out some of these grooves
There you go! That's actually an interesting side note I didn't think to verbally mention - straight up practice disco grooves to work the left foot quarters AND open notes. That's a groove from so many songs out there. 👍
Great stuff man. What kit is that?
You're a great teacher, really good videos, thanks. I'm a teacher IRL and I strongly agree with the sentiment that everyone's more capable than they think. Most students that give up do so because they've set themselves up to fail (or in some cases they just weren't as passionate as they thought they were - maybe they loved the idea of having a skill more than the skill itself). If you're patient and genuinely interested in a subject you can learn pretty much anything. Human brains are pretty great.
IMO It can be kind of damaging the way musicians throw around phrases like "natural talent" and "supernaturally gifted" as if the great players they love didn't work (play?) their asses off to get good. Or in some cases got good at one very focused thing, became famous for it and were never asked to do anything else. There are variances in the rate at which people pick skills up, particularly if it's in a domain that's new to them, but just saying "I'll never get there" is an excuse not to try and it brings me down every time I hear it from students.
if you liked the chicks, splashes, and sizzles of the hi-hat in this video...check out Stephen's Master the Hihat series! I did and with dedication the variety, dynamics, articulation and speed of my grooves improved significantly. Plus now have a couple real showboat grooves!
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I am imaginig that hihats in every "and" wow its really though, maybe timorrow i'll try
It's tough the first time you do it, but if you keep at it you'll have your left foot on autopilot. Just be patient with yourself!
Get STUCK IN!!!
Practice is Magic!!!
(I don't have a left pedal ... so I am jealous)
Try playing to an electronic metronome that uses a robotic voice. Set the time signature to 4/4 and set the interval to 1/8th notes. Then practice your left foot hi hat "chick" sound every time it says "and", as in 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.
Ive been messing with left foot stuff for awhile weather its double bass(which doesnt take to long to get soild) but hihat quarter or eighth notes, i cant do it
first
great video
whats the beat you play on the ride 3 seconds into the video?
So,when you hit the snare,you play the hi hat with your left foot?
Excellent advice, and I add, if you have 4 limbs, why not learn to use all of them?
Might strap a tambourine to my head so i can use 4 limbs without worrying about my dumbass left foot
Anybody wanting to learn hi hat just march on your drums e.g. same as walking but tap as well along with walking .right foot left foot to anything you tap. Just keep walking and until you don't hear your footsteps but then hear them if you know what I mean😁
Hey Stephen,
Very nice video and a good reason to get that left foot going.
From a neuro physiological point of view you do benefit from this training by connecting the hemispheres of the brain and being able to combine the resources of logic and emotion, what can have a huge impact on your play.
As a preparation you can hit your left knee with the right hand, then stomp the left heel on the ground, afterwards left hand to right knee and stomp right heel. Try this nice and slow 20 times each side and afterwards get into left foot hihat training. I bet you'll perform better.
Meant pdf file
1:44 I notice that when you play on 2 and 4 you also seem to be bouncing your leg a little on the 'ands' as if those notes are actually there. Could elaborate on this please? You're my favourite drumming channel btw. Thanks for all the great content
My guess is he's setting his foot up, by kinda pressing the heel down.
Its just a way to help keep time. It also builds up momentum to get a solid note thats not off time
And I’m over here thinking about double bass pedals
Where is off file? See nothing to let me do that.
It's a link in the video description.
My left foot is absolutely my weak spot.
Cultured people know groove 2 plus variations is just the ph intro but slow