Avoid RUSHING by using this hand technique
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02:54 - The most common reason WHY WE RUSH
04:32 - The stick motion that lays back your backbeats for a PRO FEEL
07:23 - How you can practice this exact stick motion at every tempo
13:53 - What about when the tempo’s faster?…
If you want your playing to feel smooth, relaxed, and professional, you need to avoid rushing. But the problem is that our hands tend to want to push ahead, even when we tell ourselves to lay back. What’s cool, though, is that we can use intentional physical MOTION to fill the space between notes. This can actually work wonders for helping your playing relax and your backbeats feel professional. YOU CAN DO THIS!
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We Rush……….BECAUSE NEIL PEART!!!!! 💪🥁🤘
Eliminate your weak hand in 3 steps:
1. Chop it off
2. ???
3. Done
This dude actually seems like he’s a great teacher
This a great lesson that any level of drummer can benefit from. 🥁❤️
Thank you, your tips always help me so much
Great lesson. I notice I rush due to nerves. You're spot on though, thought about all my H.S. time very confident snare and timpani player. Conductors motions kept every one in time.. I relaxed got loose and started doing what I call dancing on the kit. We use our whole body to drum on the kit, I stopped concentrating on the hitting in time, but letting the sticks or foot fall when called for in the dance.. It's like dancing in your seat with a purpose..
So crazy I was actually trying this earlier today on the practice pad and thought I should try playing like this more because it feels smoother. And then I come on here and you're breaking it down. Awesome! Glad to know I wasn't just imagining those results. Thanks for explaining!
V. useful - many thanks!
OUTSTANDING as always! It's the 'little things' that make a big difference. THANKS
Superb explanations!
Thank you 🥁💕
This video came at the perfect time I've been dealing with timing issues for a while now and this video was very informative and helpful
Just subbed. Thanks so much. Ur vids are great help
This is so helpful, wish I found this earlier - many thanks.
love ur lessons dude, im a pretty basic ass dude but ur explanations make sense to me so cheers for taking the time to put things into layman's terms it's a massive help :)
Perfect lesson in fluidity, sometimes drummers need to chill and relax a little more, I'm not an expert, but thanks so much for everything you do
Good technique 👌
Hey Stephen, thanks for your always helpful tips. I think this can help highlight something that I discovered with my weak hand. My wrist tended to tense up. This of course plays havoc with getting my weak hand into shape. I now practice things like groups of 5 beats concentrating on keeping my weak wrist relaxed. I then stop after a bit, rotate and flex my wrist to make sure it is staying relaxed, then start over. This has helped a lot with my weak hand. I think what you are talking about doing will be great to help me facilitate stopping my weak hand from tensing up.
Thanks Steve, love your content, I am 57 and have been drumming since grade school, but never kit. Finally bought one and in a sense am starting again. I like your relaxed approach.
Thank 👍
I love your teaching style. I am definitely a smacker :( Thank you!!!
I need this
Thanks for addressing what I think is the second most common problem that most drummers have (the first being volume control). When I started playing live with a click I learned how and why I would rush fills and I think most of it was corrected just but playing with the click thousands of times. I also noticed that EVERYBODY in the band would tend to rush slow songs and my job was to hold them back. I eventually ended up playing with some good players that knew how to follow.
And, I found a work around for my habit of playing too loud. I converted my acoustic kit to electronic :). It was easier than honing my skills :) Although it seriously compromised dynamics, it was worth the trade off to eliminate the problems with fitting into the mix from the worst seat in the house as I was never in a pro level band with competent sound techs.
Absolutely the best drum lesson. I have been playing for decades and had many great teachers.
I have never heard it explained exactly when the lift takes place. I had the technique down for years but
was lifting a 1/16 or 1/8th note later rather than lifting exactly on the one or the three.
Wow! your lesson was so helpful and worth gold. This lesson can change everything about my playing in a
positive way. A simple shift can make a huge difference. I will burn this into my subconscious mind while
having fun and allowing my body to feel that place called "Home" or "safety" . Yes relaxed in the pocket and trusting
the movement as a dance that is natural and conducive to playing at our highest level. You get an A plus.
Yes! Thank you... "Relaxed in the pocket and TRUSTING the movement..."
After 6 decades of playing and a 3 year hiatus due to a death in the family, this is exactly what I had lost. Your comments were exactly what I needed.
great topic. my suggestion: always practice with a metronome (or equivalent drum machine). it is critical to develop your sense of time against a perfect reference. not to play with perfect time but to be close to it. i've experienced many drummers rush over the years, and i believe a lot of them do because they didn't endure years of academic music instruction that typically includes heavy regular use of a metronome during individual and group rehearsal. i believe technical ability (i.e. weak hand) has nothing to do with sense of time (including rushing or dragging) when performing music.
Thank you. As usual I think I’m the only one who struggles with this motion. I figured it’s something little kids learn right away and I’ve been trying to fix poor mechanics for too long cuz I was hyper focused on motion instead of lining it up with the count. 🤦🏽
Is there any way, you can make a more concentrated version of your videos in addition to the amazing insights this longer way. You talk about what you are going to talk about for a really long time. Love your insight, but if it's ok to ask. Maybe a version where you say what you're gonna talk about once, then show it, right then, while we just heard about it. Not instead this is great content, in addition to, like a cliff notes version. I hope thats ok to ask. thx man!
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You are the Justin Guitar of drumming
Stephen, thanks for this, super helpful as ever. I've got to the point where most times my backbeats are pretty much on 2 & 4 of the click/grid.
What I've found though is that my feet - right especially - rush a little. it's the same whether playing heel up or down. Do you have any advice for getting the feet similarly relaxed and rush-free?
Since it doesn't look like Stephen answered this question (or if he did in a separate video then I wouldn't know, apologies for that), I'll try to answer your question. The trick is to practice it with a metronome that cuts through your bass drum attack. This may mean playing quieter with foot down, although for heel up you just need a louder metronome or one that sounds like hi-hats (cuts through). Play 4-on-the-floor a lot to a 4/4 pulse, and just do it *a lot*. Play any hand pattern you want over it, but keep the 4-on-the-floor going. It will improve your general sense of time. And while you're at it, go through Benny Greb's language of drumming exercises, specifically bass drum permutations.
Other than this, you should also try playing behind the beat. Start with just bass drum on beat 1. Experiment with slightly lagging that beat 1 bass drum until you can hear your metronome click just before you land your bass drum. (Of course, do this slow.) The reason I suggest this is most people "think" they're in time because their bass drum hits just before the click but the attack buries the click (since it lands just before the click). So if you want to confirm whether you played in time, just lag it a bit until you hear the click distinctively, then rush it back until you're right on top of it.
As for bass drum technique, I highly recommend Thomas Lang's approach. You can search that video up on UA-cam. Not much else I can say. I hope this helps you.
Btw I don't fully agree with Stephen's approach to be honest. He is basically saying you need to prepare your strokes, but he suggests you lift your wrists almost similar to the Moeller technique. I used to swear by that technique but in recent times I changed to sticking more to basic strokes. However from my experience, using the "whip" doesn't improve your timing. Preparing your strokes in advance does. The Moeller "whip" requires preparation, so it is only coincidental that it helps you improve your timing. But if you rely on it then you fall into a trap where you're using your forearm movement without needing it, and that encourages tension which also leads to rushing.
What really improved my own timing is I learned to prepare my strokes (I have a university professor to thank for this advice) regardless of what technique I used... And after that, I lagged everything I played like I explained above, while listening to a metronome. And then I also played a ton of 4-on-the-floor. And lastly, I permutated bass drum patterns over that pulse played on my left foot (hi-hats). There are other things such as maintaining composure while playing, but it is quite hard as music is emotionally charged. So I sometimes just have to admit I will never play 100% in time, and I never have to because I'm not a machine. I just need to be in time well enough that the general ear can't call me out.
Something else I discovered as I studied Dave Weckl's drumming a lot in my music school days was he emphasized the "flow" (of hands/sticks) when drumming. I have since practiced with that concept in mind... And that helped with my timing a lot. Stephen also suggests this approach here (hence why I "don't fully agree"; not I "fully disagree"). When slowing down a fill for example, one should pay attention to the flow between strokes, which of course requires preparing each stroke in advance. Anyone who skips this process and jumps straight to fast tempi will not have learned how to prepare his/her strokes, which is the primary reason why anyone who doesn't practice slow rushes and plays "jaggedly". I myself am guilty of that in my first 5 years of drumming before I disciplined myself, haha...
And also, professionals don't play 100% in time. They don't even play 100% in time to each other. What they do is they follow each other with a moral responsibility that they will affect the other's timing (which is why they're 99% in time individually), and the collective sounds in time together as a result of that. This means if you put yourself in a band where everyone else plays 80% in time, even if on your best day you're 99%, you're gonna get dragged down to 85%. Don't let that get to you when it happens. I found that on average, drummers have far superior timing than any other musician; but they get blamed the most for any rushing/dragging. It is because when all your notes are staccato, it is easier to tell you're out of time than an instrument that usually plays legato notes. (Adam Neely has a video explaining this, although his video was talking more about something else and he merely brushed on this topic by chance.)
Is this a Gretsch renown? 20" kick? Sounds amazing!
Ted Reed is the best answer.
Nice concept, but what about when your playing hh?
Take my strawnggg hand!
A big problem with my drumming is tempo. Thanks for the lesson
What is that knot on your hand at your left wrist?
Can this work in reverse? I have the opposite issue where I tend to lay the snare back too much and I can't seem to control it
Stephen,what type of practice pad is that on your snare? It appears to be a full 14 inch pad?
Aquarian Super-Pad
Are you rushing or dragging?
It's called Swing Drumming... Swing the groove and you'll se
Swing the beats and even your crashes will be on time... BONHAM was the SWING MASTER!
Turn off that drumming insert when you're speaking please! Most of us old drummers are deaf and it confuses! Great lesson as always.
A life long struggle for many.
So a moeller stroke
The Ringo lingo
Because you win a prize if you get to the end of the music before everyone else. 🤣
Sir, my weak hand is missing a finger 😂
It's simple. Eliminate your weak hand by playing open-handed.
Broooooo, my left hand sucks
whhhhhip
Man. I just opened this video. But this is the fat snare sound I'm looking for
“Snowball effect”
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Google technique. 👍
very,very good,but a little to much blaablaa
Because guitar players are so damn slow.
You could say what you’re saying without being buried in so much verbage.
Lot of talking !
do you have a wardrobe filled with all the exact same clothes?
hablas demasiado tio.
Use the professional, traditional, correct grip. Then you can teach properly.