I really have lots of time now im retired and yes i have devoted it to YOUR lessons and practicing by YOUR recomendations now , i love the drums and have always even before you were born ,im 65 and will hope when the time comes ill have my sticks in my hands, Thank you Rob for everythjng you do and will do for the betterment of my drumming
this comment really gives me hope in mankind...I hope i can make it to your age and keep on drumming... is never too late to play and follow your dreams man!!!
You are 100% correct about using Jazz to get better. I can play pretty much every genres of music but totally suck at jazz. And most jazz drummers I've met can really play any genre of music. Maybe you should do an intro to Jazz drumming video because I love your teaching Style. After 25 years of drumming I feel as if my drumming has gotten stale, so I've been trying to reinvent myself and your videos are certainly helping. Thank you mr. Beatdown👍
@@spudmagnum7394 it's easy to see the ride pattern and hear the snare hits, but I always have a hard time understanding what the bass drum is doing since it's played so lightly.
Thank you for sharing your love for drumming. I’m an educator and do for fitness what you do for drumming - make it SIMPLE!! I never played traditional grip and have always envied that nasty left hand of the greats. So - now that I’m 60 - I’m back to learning things I never spend time on - my rudiments! For the first two months of my journey back - nothing but left hand and boy what a difference that’s made already. I always have sticks with me, EVERYWHERE!!! Whether it’s a 5 minute ride in the car, time watching news on TV, or I have one hour to practice, it’s basics EVERYDAY! I’m not even buying my electric set until I have my rudiments down solid - smooth light single and double rolls, funky triplets, paradiddles, etc. My drum kit is my reward for developing HANDS!! My ultimate goal is a left handed, traditional grip, single hand roll! Man - if you could do something on that I would (and think others as well) would appreciate it. Keep up the great work and thank you!
Man thank you so much. I am a veteran musician from 1980. Started in 5th grade band a as Trumpet player. Played in the sky ryder Drum and Bugle corp in 87 and 88 on a 2 valve G bore bugle. Put myself thru college where I started singing as a weekend warrior vocalist. Played in the corp with many great drummers like Chad Sexton, Mickey Hartzog, Jason Sutter. I started taking drum lessons in 2005 for about 6 months and loved it until my instructor suddenly quit and I never went back. Now I find myself behind the kit again. I cant stay away from it. I practice about 4 to 5 hours a day in my recording studio and I absolutely love the kit. I have been struggling as a beginner and it is tough, but videos like these keep me going. Thanks for the inspiration and I absolutely love the channel. I will be buying some swag as soon as I get some coin. Man thanks again today has been a bitch studying some of your exercises and the book stick control, about to play along to some tunes. Thru my sticks a couple times today but saw this video and I feel lots better thanks again and thanks for listening to me vent. Peace
I totally agree with Rob. When I found jazz and fusion, I realized I knew nothing and started all over again. Listening to Harvey Mason, on Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters album, just blew me away.
I have always been a Jazz drummer but lately been (trying to follow ) and play along with Buddy Riches band and woow that is hard his time and the force is uncanny, i met him twice course he died in 87 but what a thrill to meet your idiol, and oddly enough he was very nice and even showed me a couple things in 85.
Great suggestions!!! At 18 yo I spent a summer, 5 hr/day 7 days a week playing the Chic Corea - Return to Forever album! I have used all of those chops for the next 40 years!
Now this is what I’m talking about.i struggle with this every day. How to get better faster . Thanks for giving us a solution to this problem. And ways to practice better
Mr Brown you're the best teacher here!! I Hated Jazz during my college days, but got to experience a director who was ALMOST as bad as the Whiplash director!! I thought I was great, but in my adult years I know how wrong I was. Now I actually wish I would have taken the time to get back to basics and slow down!!! in practice. I was into Hard rock and Dance music, still am. also DJ Scratching this all applies. My suggestions from an Ark hick drummer AKA DJJetfuel, 1 METROKNOME!!! hic spelling. In the pocket is a KEY thing. 2SLOW SLOWER AND precision before speed. I'm stuck on the friggin 1st Basic DJ scratch used in herbie handcock "Rockit!" it's so simple but... yea One DJ friend told me, People don't care! just play music. That's not my goal. If I woulda put serious "Perfect practice" into this in 1986! I woulda been hot. but nope... 3 practice does NOT make perfect.. Perfect practice makes perfect. Learn to practice!! Basics. Timing, Sticking. The Pocket. With UA-cam I can do 2 years worth of lessons, 1/2 hr once a week, in a day with help from YouGuys!! I never was prepared for lessons.. 4 Get Smoked!! by someone better... Yep its painful but Humble is good! I'd rather have a pos 4 piece kit and play circles around someone with a big expensive DW etc kit... no offence. haha 5 Record yourself! I still don't have youtube videos up because I still can't quite get outta the suck zone. I have a great resume, I played Madison Square Garden once. Basketball game NIT championship 1986 87' Played live with Aerto Morrera, Jack Dejonette, Bill Clinton, Done DJ scratch battles and drummoffs at guitar center. ^ Enter Contests... Get smoked!! best lessons ever! My goal today is to play breakbeat techno with TTAble as a center instrument ALL electric with percussion ensemble form. I'm not impressed with a DJ turning knobs to pre done tracks, I wanna see y'all Beatin on shit!! Tell me who said that first! on a record! Hint WHAT .... IS IT! My college teachers were super bebop jazz Art Blakey type, Saw him live in NY. in 86. Hated it, But now!!! oh I understand!! My idea of music was Methods of Mayhem and Depesche Mode in those days. I need disciplin, ARk skools and structure to reach my goals. I've been chasing the same idea for 25 years and still not there. Im 53 and want to be known as on Funky MF. I have a hard time working with others and need to work on that. Not many decent players understand the Dancefloor like I do. My ideas are very Visual like STOMP, or Jamaican type beats with a super hard electric edge! Thanks for your service Man I hope to meet ya someday! 1 more tip Play outta your comfort zone! If ya ain't messin up ever, You ain't doin nothin!
Solid advice. I've been playing for 27 years, and this is truly golden. For a number #6, I would say practice playing backwards. At one point when I wasn't in a band and had hit a wall in my abilities, I flipped my kit around completely with my left foot playing bass drum and the hi hat on my right side where I would use my left hand to carry the rhythm on the hi hat or ride. It was super humbling. It was like learning to play when I first got behind the kit. After a few months, I got up to a basic level of playing when I got back into another band, a man did my playing skyrocket when I flipped everything back. Speed and independence through the roof. #7 is to play live. I started playing live way before I had any business getting on a stage, and man did that push me like nothing else to improve.
Thank you man!!! Realy!! My name is Dean and im from Delaware. Its refreshing to hear you speek. Ive been playing drums for 30 +yrs. and feeling like im loseing the passion much like a merrage gone dry. Sad but true. Practice is everything even when she dont wanna. Im 50yrs. and got to keep moveing in music or it tends to die. Thanks again for reinspire!!!
“Play along to difficult music.” YES. I always tell drummers to get into The Mars Volta. The music is physically demanding , its got hard rock, latin, avant garde jazz, funk, eratic and odd time sigs, etc etc. Playing along to that really pushes you as a drummer and just inherently makes you better. P.S. You’re the man, Rob. Keep puttin out great stuff. 🤘🏼
I started learning 1yr ago! And now I find I pick up stuff a lot faster than when I first started! Every time I learn something new it's really exiting! I like your video! They have help me out quite a bit thank you!
Hey, another nurturing and tip laden find, thanks Rob. I am thoroughly enjoying your channel and in particular working on my right hand index and middle fingers in precisely the way you advise for stick control. In particular focusing on quiet relaxed ghost note syncopations is really starting to take out some of the heaviness in my playing. MY TIP would be ultra slow practice. Start with the metronome as slow as you can comfortably play a tricky passage and loop it. When comfortable start to go DOWN in tempo a few bpm and repeat. Things get REAL instructive at about seventeen BPM and an awful lot of confusion disappears and with it difficulty.
Motivation: experiencing this right now. I'm better now than I've ever been and it's really motivating me to put extra private practice time in to push myself further and try new things. Weird how that works. I'm so ready to really step the challenge level right up.
Another fantastic video Rob. I come from a family of drummers. Both my father and brother are pro drummers. When I first heard Weckl it really did it for me too. Totally blew me away. First heard him on a Special EFX record. Dennis Chambers was on a couple of tunes too. Met Dave at the British Music Fair 30 years ago.
I think this carried over from when I played guitar (didn't start drums till I was 27). I figure ingest all the music you can and REALLY listen to it. You'll find stuff in pop songs you didn't think had wild parts in it. For example, Journey's song Seperate Ways there's a little hi hat pattern Steve is doing with his left foot while banging that rhythm on the toms and bass drum. In Toto's Goodbye Eleanor, Jeff has this aggressive bass drum pattern going on as that song just rocks along. Not to mention just listen to Spectrum, Yes/King Crimson with Bill Bruford or Phil Collins work on Robert Plant's solo albums where he played some tasty stuff as well as Brand X. Missing Person's with Bozzio has great parts on those new wave pop tunes.
Huh, I seem to have combined point #3 and #4 inadvertently in my own practice; most of the music I’ve been playing to has been extremely challenging. A lot of Hella in particular; very difficult stuff but rewarding as hell when I finally nail it.
wise advice, thanks for sharing. i'm glad i found your channel! i just discover jazz, bossa and african rythms recently and it adds so much how i play drums now.
Hi Rob thanks you are great man.. I have a roland v drums and what I love is connect them with a sound console plus my radio and I play whatever the music station puts.. it's a challenge
Could U make a video about developing 4way independence for intemediate drummers? Not as hard as Big Kid Exercise (Mike Johnson made a video about that), but sth a little bit easier (not to much easier). It will be great if you will make a video about most effective exercises for intermediate drummers as well.
A couple of days ago I put on Zenyatta Mondata and tried to play along but only got right like tiny bits of 3 different songs, so I stood there on my throne listen to the album. Gotta practice a lot more. U ever felt like your drumming's never gonna get to the next level?
Great advice here Rob and great playing as always! Would love to see you do more videos on swung grooves I was checking out one of your older vids on hip hop grooves it was brilliant those swung/go go grooves I love them!
Great video as always 🤘 #6 playing with a click! Also the chick corea part, can't forget about the powerhouse mr. Gary Novak!! Thanks for the videos brother!
Hey rob you once said “their are people who play cymbals and others who just hit them” I try to “ play” them but don’t exactly quite have the idea maybe you should give us a lesson on that it would be interesting?
You mentioned about playing to music, for eg playing to whole of Police album. What if the album is too difficult for me and I could only play straight grooves and simple fills? Is it still useful? Or just being too comfy with what I know in a practice session?
Additional Tip... learn to play another instrument other than the drums. It expands one's musical awareness, which is absolutely applicable to how one plays the drums. Primarily, you should think of yourself not as a drummer but as a musician who expresses themselves through one or more instruments. It's really not about the drums but about you as a human being. That's what comes out in the playing of the great drummers (Rob being one of them) we admire and love. The drums are just a vehicle to express themselves in a particular context. It's okay, of course to play only one instrument but, it will only make you a better musician/drummer if you learn to play some bass or some piano or even guitar or sing or...
Oh my gosh....I’m a beginner drummer and every time I think I’m ready for a sold out Madison Square Garden in front of 80,000....I record myself and realize it’s probably awhile yet! 😳
Awesome vid Rob (as usual). What's the song at the tail end of your vid? The more progressive jazz oriented tune? Is that you playing AND is there a drumless version? 🙂🥁
Been trying to find a couple guys to jam with. Kinda hard. Tell a guy you play drums, and he plays drums, or tell a guy you play drums, and he plays guitar, so you say, "Dude, let's find a garage somewhere and jam!" and they don't bite, as if they don't think you're serious. And finding someone who plays bass? Forget it. Never mind someone who can actually sing. Frustrating. Maybe I need one of them "dope" T-shirts?
It’s just ridiculous how tasteful your playing is. Makes me so frustrated. But at the same time, I haven’t played in 20 years until March. LOL! Any who...
I really have lots of time now im retired and yes i have devoted it to YOUR lessons and practicing by YOUR recomendations now , i love the drums and have always even before you were born ,im 65 and will hope when the time comes ill have my sticks in my hands, Thank you Rob for everythjng you do and will do for the betterment of my drumming
this comment really gives me hope in mankind...I hope i can make it to your age and keep on drumming...
is never too late to play and follow your dreams man!!!
Can't wait to see you on Drumeo mr. Beatdown👍
I would love to see RB on Drumeo!
Is that happening?
You are 100% correct about using Jazz to get better. I can play pretty much every genres of music but totally suck at jazz. And most jazz drummers I've met can really play any genre of music. Maybe you should do an intro to Jazz drumming video because I love your teaching Style. After 25 years of drumming I feel as if my drumming has gotten stale, so I've been trying to reinvent myself and your videos are certainly helping. Thank you mr. Beatdown👍
Intro to Jazz; perfect idea man! Its hard to even know where to start with Jazz. Like you can learn the basic ride pattern and stuff but then what?
@@spudmagnum7394 it's easy to see the ride pattern and hear the snare hits, but I always have a hard time understanding what the bass drum is doing since it's played so lightly.
@@ivankaspeadsforquincyjones9273 True that. I struggle woth the ghost notes too since the snare is often pretty busy in jazz
@@spudmagnum7394 good point on the ghost notes.👍
@@spudmagnum7394 Check out Steve Holmes on UA-cam. He has some great beginning Jazz stuff. AND so does Beatdown !!
Thank you for sharing your love for drumming. I’m an educator and do for fitness what you do for drumming - make it SIMPLE!! I never played traditional grip and have always envied that nasty left hand of the greats. So - now that I’m 60 - I’m back to learning things I never spend time on - my rudiments! For the first two months of my journey back - nothing but left hand and boy what a difference that’s made already. I always have sticks with me, EVERYWHERE!!! Whether it’s a 5 minute ride in the car, time watching news on TV, or I have one hour to practice, it’s basics EVERYDAY!
I’m not even buying my electric set until I have my rudiments down solid - smooth light single and double rolls, funky triplets, paradiddles, etc. My drum kit is my reward for developing HANDS!! My ultimate goal is a left handed, traditional grip, single hand roll!
Man - if you could do something on that I would (and think others as well) would appreciate it. Keep up the great work and thank you!
Man thank you so much. I am a veteran musician from 1980. Started in 5th grade band a as Trumpet player. Played in the sky ryder Drum and Bugle corp in 87 and 88 on a 2 valve G bore bugle. Put myself thru college where I started singing as a weekend warrior vocalist. Played in the corp with many great drummers like Chad Sexton, Mickey Hartzog, Jason Sutter. I started taking drum lessons in 2005 for about 6 months and loved it until my instructor suddenly quit and I never went back. Now I find myself behind the kit again. I cant stay away from it. I practice about 4 to 5 hours a day in my recording studio and I absolutely love the kit. I have been struggling as a beginner and it is tough, but videos like these keep me going. Thanks for the inspiration and I absolutely love the channel. I will be buying some swag as soon as I get some coin. Man thanks again today has been a bitch studying some of your exercises and the book stick control, about to play along to some tunes. Thru my sticks a couple times today but saw this video and I feel lots better thanks again and thanks for listening to me vent. Peace
I totally agree with Rob. When I found jazz and fusion, I realized I knew nothing and started all over again. Listening to Harvey Mason, on Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters album, just blew me away.
Jazz music.. I always find it hard.
Thanks for this..I will try harder now.
Thank you :)
Awesome. Weckyl changed me too. I am 62 now and still practising like mad. I may never get there but, getting lots of gigs, so.? Nice vid
I have always been a Jazz drummer but lately been (trying to follow ) and play along with Buddy Riches band and woow that is hard his time and the force is uncanny, i met him twice course he died in 87 but what a thrill to meet your idiol, and oddly enough he was very nice and even showed me a couple things in 85.
Great suggestions!!! At 18 yo I spent a summer, 5 hr/day 7 days a week playing the Chic Corea - Return to Forever album! I have used all of those chops for the next 40 years!
Best drum instructor on UA-cam. Videos are fun, casual, and most of all helpful. Thanks for doing what you do, man.
Now this is what I’m talking about.i struggle with this every day. How to get better faster . Thanks for giving us a solution to this problem. And ways to practice better
Mr Brown you're the best teacher here!! I Hated Jazz during my college days, but got to experience a director who was ALMOST as bad as the Whiplash director!! I thought I was great, but in my adult years I know how wrong I was. Now I actually wish I would have taken the time to get back to basics and slow down!!! in practice. I was into Hard rock and Dance music, still am. also DJ Scratching this all applies. My suggestions from an Ark hick drummer AKA DJJetfuel, 1 METROKNOME!!! hic spelling. In the pocket is a KEY thing. 2SLOW SLOWER AND precision before speed. I'm stuck on the friggin 1st Basic DJ scratch used in herbie handcock "Rockit!" it's so simple but... yea One DJ friend told me, People don't care! just play music. That's not my goal. If I woulda put serious "Perfect practice" into this in 1986! I woulda been hot. but nope... 3 practice does NOT make perfect.. Perfect practice makes perfect. Learn to practice!! Basics. Timing, Sticking. The Pocket. With UA-cam I can do 2 years worth of lessons, 1/2 hr once a week, in a day with help from YouGuys!! I never was prepared for lessons.. 4 Get Smoked!! by someone better... Yep its painful but Humble is good! I'd rather have a pos 4 piece kit and play circles around someone with a big expensive DW etc kit... no offence. haha 5 Record yourself! I still don't have youtube videos up because I still can't quite get outta the suck zone. I have a great resume, I played Madison Square Garden once. Basketball game NIT championship 1986 87' Played live with Aerto Morrera, Jack Dejonette, Bill Clinton, Done DJ scratch battles and drummoffs at guitar center. ^ Enter Contests... Get smoked!! best lessons ever! My goal today is to play breakbeat techno with TTAble as a center instrument ALL electric with percussion ensemble form. I'm not impressed with a DJ turning knobs to pre done tracks, I wanna see y'all Beatin on shit!! Tell me who said that first! on a record! Hint WHAT .... IS IT! My college teachers were super bebop jazz Art Blakey type, Saw him live in NY. in 86. Hated it, But now!!! oh I understand!! My idea of music was Methods of Mayhem and Depesche Mode in those days. I need disciplin, ARk skools and structure to reach my goals. I've been chasing the same idea for 25 years and still not there. Im 53 and want to be known as on Funky MF. I have a hard time working with others and need to work on that. Not many decent players understand the Dancefloor like I do. My ideas are very Visual like STOMP, or Jamaican type beats with a super hard electric edge! Thanks for your service Man I hope to meet ya someday! 1 more tip Play outta your comfort zone! If ya ain't messin up ever, You ain't doin nothin!
Solid advice. I've been playing for 27 years, and this is truly golden. For a number #6, I would say practice playing backwards. At one point when I wasn't in a band and had hit a wall in my abilities, I flipped my kit around completely with my left foot playing bass drum and the hi hat on my right side where I would use my left hand to carry the rhythm on the hi hat or ride. It was super humbling. It was like learning to play when I first got behind the kit. After a few months, I got up to a basic level of playing when I got back into another band, a man did my playing skyrocket when I flipped everything back. Speed and independence through the roof. #7 is to play live. I started playing live way before I had any business getting on a stage, and man did that push me like nothing else to improve.
Thank you man!!! Realy!! My name is Dean and im from Delaware. Its refreshing to hear you speek. Ive been playing drums for 30 +yrs. and feeling like im loseing the passion much like a merrage gone dry. Sad but true. Practice is everything even when she dont wanna. Im 50yrs. and got to keep moveing in music or it tends to die. Thanks again for reinspire!!!
Point about motivation's so true, particularly if your time poor.... and that's the key!!
Cheers for your insights .. great!! 👍
“Play along to difficult music.” YES.
I always tell drummers to get into The Mars Volta.
The music is physically demanding , its got hard rock, latin, avant garde jazz, funk, eratic and odd time sigs, etc etc. Playing along to that really pushes you as a drummer and just inherently makes you better.
P.S. You’re the man, Rob. Keep puttin out great stuff. 🤘🏼
Thanks Rob. Your videos are always helpful. God bless you!
I love playing with music. Sometimes learning new songs real time (ear read?) Is frustrating, but when you nail it...dude.
I started learning 1yr ago! And now I find I pick up stuff a lot faster than when I first started! Every time I learn something new it's really exiting! I like your video! They have help me out quite a bit thank you!
#6 When you're feeling a little down and unmotivated-watch a "Rob Brown Beatdown" video! SERIOUSLY! Thanks, Rob, you're the best man!
Thanks man 🙂✌🏽
I met Ulysses Owens Jr and he told me “focus on the grooves”. Great drummer
Excellent advice Rob, will try really hard to follow it, keep the good work going Many Thanks
That jazz! Wow, had no idea a DM fan could like you could do that. Have no clue what you're doing, but it's beautiful!
Hey, another nurturing and tip laden find, thanks Rob. I am thoroughly enjoying your channel and in particular working on my right hand index and middle fingers in precisely the way you advise for stick control. In particular focusing on quiet relaxed ghost note syncopations is really starting to take out some of the heaviness in my playing. MY TIP would be ultra slow practice. Start with the metronome as slow as you can comfortably play a tricky passage and loop it. When comfortable start to go DOWN in tempo a few bpm and repeat. Things get REAL instructive at about seventeen BPM and an awful lot of confusion disappears and with it difficulty.
Motivation: experiencing this right now. I'm better now than I've ever been and it's really motivating me to put extra private practice time in to push myself further and try new things. Weird how that works. I'm so ready to really step the challenge level right up.
Pen & Notebook ready to write and take notes!
👊😝👊
Growth. Your growth.
Another fantastic video Rob. I come from a family of drummers. Both my father and brother are pro drummers. When I first heard Weckl it really did it for me too. Totally blew me away. First heard him on a Special EFX record. Dennis Chambers was on a couple of tunes too. Met Dave at the British Music Fair 30 years ago.
I think this carried over from when I played guitar (didn't start drums till I was 27). I figure ingest all the music you can and REALLY listen to it. You'll find stuff in pop songs you didn't think had wild parts in it. For example, Journey's song Seperate Ways there's a little hi hat pattern Steve is doing with his left foot while banging that rhythm on the toms and bass drum. In Toto's Goodbye Eleanor, Jeff has this aggressive bass drum pattern going on as that song just rocks along. Not to mention just listen to Spectrum, Yes/King Crimson with Bill Bruford or Phil Collins work on Robert Plant's solo albums where he played some tasty stuff as well as Brand X. Missing Person's with Bozzio has great parts on those new wave pop tunes.
Huh, I seem to have combined point #3 and #4 inadvertently in my own practice; most of the music I’ve been playing to has been extremely challenging. A lot of Hella in particular; very difficult stuff but rewarding as hell when I finally nail it.
practice 5 hours cause it was to late to practice for 6...you are funny...🙌🏾💯thanks for the lesson
Great video man, love it as always
you amaze me...........................nice drum set by the way.
Thanks, man. Them Yamaha Stage Custom Birch drums are 🏆
I appreciate this man 💯
Well said my friend! You are dead on with this advice. Keep up the good work! One of the best educators online for sure!
wise advice, thanks for sharing. i'm glad i found your channel! i just discover jazz, bossa and african rythms recently and it adds so much how i play drums now.
I like to switch my kit around to force me into new patterns and movements. Definitely not a top 5 list sort of idea, but I've found it useful.
Awesome stuff! Countdown Beatdown to 100k!
😬 Pretty excited, man 📈
Hi Rob thanks you are great man.. I have a roland v drums and what I love is connect them with a sound console plus my radio and I play whatever the music station puts.. it's a challenge
Just started watching. I'm intimidated already.
Solid advice!
Awesome info on your vids
Could U make a video about developing 4way independence for intemediate drummers?
Not as hard as Big Kid Exercise (Mike Johnson made a video about that), but sth a little bit easier (not to much easier).
It will be great if you will make a video about most effective exercises for intermediate drummers as well.
Excellent tips. You were on point. Thanks for posting.
A couple of days ago I put on Zenyatta Mondata and tried to play along but only got right like tiny bits of 3 different songs, so I stood there on my throne listen to the album. Gotta practice a lot more. U ever felt like your drumming's never gonna get to the next level?
6:40 *mentions living colour*
You earned yourself a sub
Jokes aside, great content man
I ordered a stickman tee shirt and I love it! Thanks Rob!😁👍🇨🇱🇨🇱🥁🥁
Great advice here Rob and great playing as always! Would love to see you do more videos on swung grooves I was checking out one of your older vids on hip hop grooves it was brilliant those swung/go go grooves I love them!
Oh man! I tried out for a fusion band back in 2006.... What a disaster! I definitely was not ready but I did learn some things for sure.
"to the cottage." LOL love your vids homie. you're always on point
Great video as always 🤘 #6 playing with a click! Also the chick corea part, can't forget about the powerhouse mr. Gary Novak!! Thanks for the videos brother!
Rob! I’m having an issue with traditional grip where the groove in my thumb is hurting when I hit the drums hard or do rimshots. What’s the deal?
Great advice as always!!!
Super inspiring, Rob!
Great advice and thanks!
Do you have any videos on how to start learning Jazz music? It's something I want to learn, but just don't know where to start.
Zappa, ELP, Blood sweat n tears, chicago, Yes... I play alot of prog.
Nice playing, Beatdown!
Very good man, thankou!
Hey rob you once said “their are people who play cymbals and others who just hit them” I try to “ play” them but don’t exactly quite have the idea maybe you should give us a lesson on that it would be interesting?
You mentioned about playing to music, for eg playing to whole of Police album. What if the album is too difficult for me and I could only play straight grooves and simple fills? Is it still useful? Or just being too comfy with what I know in a practice session?
Additional Tip... learn to play another instrument other than the drums. It expands one's musical awareness, which is absolutely applicable to how one plays the drums. Primarily, you should think of yourself not as a drummer but as a musician who expresses themselves through one or more instruments. It's really not about the drums but about you as a human being. That's what comes out in the playing of the great drummers (Rob being one of them) we admire and love. The drums are just a vehicle to express themselves in a particular context. It's okay, of course to play only one instrument but, it will only make you a better musician/drummer if you learn to play some bass or some piano or even guitar or sing or...
thank you rob
charlie b
6. Record video of yourself. What you need to work on will become obvious.
Oh my gosh....I’m a beginner drummer and every time I think I’m ready for a sold out Madison Square Garden in front of 80,000....I record myself and realize it’s probably awhile yet! 😳
Awesome vid Rob (as usual). What's the song at the tail end of your vid? The more progressive jazz oriented tune? Is that you playing AND is there a drumless version? 🙂🥁
rob what city are u n? do u teach 1 on 1?
Good One..!!
Hey Bob, thanks so much. I'd like to get into Jazz/Fusion drumming. Where should I start? Do you have any recommendations or advice?
Great tips Rob...thank you...!
Have you moved up the stick with your traditional grip?
What’s the song at the very end of this video? 👌🎶
Number 6 : Follow this Channel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
something i like to do is to improvise until i come out with something that i like but cant do and i practice that until i get it.
But - are there really beginners who dont play along to their fave music?
Unthinkable to me - that IS drumming to me!
all the time
How to get harder, better, faster and stronger
Me:*clicks on video* I wonder how good he is
*video starts*
Me: This guy is the black superman of drumming
5:27 "5-way independence"?....... what other limbs are you playing drums with? lol 😏
voice
What is that large crash to your left (Viewers right)?
Been trying to find a couple guys to jam with. Kinda hard. Tell a guy you play drums, and he plays drums, or tell a guy you play drums, and he plays guitar, so you say, "Dude, let's find a garage somewhere and jam!" and they don't bite, as if they don't think you're serious. And finding someone who plays bass? Forget it. Never mind someone who can actually sing. Frustrating. Maybe I need one of them "dope" T-shirts?
6. play with everybody because of you can play with everybody, you can play with anybody.
Always step outside your comfort zone and do different things = Jazz it up
My tee shirt is due any day now.
NICE 🙂👊🏾
It’s just ridiculous how tasteful your playing is. Makes me so frustrated. But at the same time, I haven’t played in 20 years until March. LOL! Any who...