TOP 3 Heel Toe Technique Hacks | Double Bass Drum Lesson

Today we check out 3 different tips to improve your heel toe double bass skills.

These exercises will help you improve your double bass drumming (and it doesn't matter if you are using a chain driven pedal, a belt drive or a direct drive pedal like axis, trick or czarcie kopyto).

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[marthynjovanovic]

Today we check out 3 different tips to improve your heel toe double bass skills.

[failuretolaunchdrums]

Them: “I got in shape over quarantine! What did you do?” Me: “I made my feet go

[ingokolb]

3 months is a pretty dayum good trade off for 260 bpm

[DrumAndStrum]

The full lesson was excellent, John is a great teacher!! I always wished there was a platform such as DTA for extreme drumming after the Derek Roddy and George Kolias forums a long long time ago.Detailed clinics such as this where John deep dives into heel toe are totally more than I imagined . Love that you guys are making this information available to everyone! Cheers!

[BlastBest]

I was never a fan of doublestrokes but this kind of made me wanna learn it.. Good job Mr. Longstreth

[colbycushingdrumjunkie]

He's absolutely correct about repetitive practice for hours. Embracing mistakes and being a specimen

[JeffDesmond]

Great technique for people who tore their calf muscle like myself. I haven't been able to play single strokes for years without cramping up and was surprised at how comfortable this feels.

[florianwroblewski]

how lucky we are to get good drummers sharing exercices, thx a lot guys, take care !

[DrunkWizard]

I love John, I used to hang out and talk to him every day while attending the Collective School of Music. Very funny and down to earth guy, always had some insight.

[sergerasklad]

This was the most helpful explanation on heeltoe doubles. I'm yet to learn it, but at least I think I finally got the idea. My first attempts to get this technique ended up in heeltoe alternate rolls, but not doubles (works great for 4-5 stroke rolls without triggers, but for speed with triggers doubles should work way better, considering they are so popular)

[stevetingley]

Cool lesson. Thank you for the two of yous

[TheSentinel]

Such great lessons, THe Drum-Technique Academy has become the go-to place for extreme drumming knowledge

[xXxEThSfanxXx]

Hi Marthyn ! First of all thank you a lot for your content, very very informative. You receive most of my all time favorites drummers so I've been following you since several months with great interest. Second, it's funny how I woke up this morning with an itch to try again the heel toe technique on my speed cobras. Luckily I was able to make it work this time with the help of some footage from you with Mr Morotti and Mr Longstreth. Got it to work first at 150 and now up to 190ish. Again, thank you a lot for your work sir. Cheers from France !

[I_ROT_WITHIN]

Thank you so much! Feel like my double pedal skills are improving.

[jamesjackson]

John is rightly crowned king when it comes to heel toe but another drummer who I think is underrated in heel toe especially when it comes to control is Heikki Saari, would love to see him or even Kai Hahto (hes an awesome teacher)on DTA

[rickhxc]

hey marthyn ive been following you since forever, youre the greatest teacher youtube, ive been playing heel toe for like 2-3 years now, and recently i joined a band that uses a drum riser, its a freaking pain in the ass to play in those that are shaky, i cant solve that problem and as john said, putting some plate or cardboard i didnt understand much about that, so if you could explain it please, other thing tht helped me a lot is the video with erick morotti, the segment where he said, full tension on pedals, full tension on drum head and stuck a lot of things on the bass drum cheers from mexico

[KamalBensra]

You’re really good!!! Thank you for the video. A quick question. Is the heel toe technique bad for the knees?

[matenorth]

Do you use a bit of hip flexors for the first hit? This is something i need to know because if not, i have to break that habbit early than having to unlearn later. Please reply, thanks

[jamesgoetz]

I don't trigger or use heel-toe; however, that joint between the pedal and hoop is definitely underrated. It's not so much flimsy drum risers - though that happens. It's more common an issue with drum rugs. Use thin drum rugs, don't stack rugs on each other, etc. If the house rug is too thick, I'll roll it up and remove it and lay down my own (which is thin). NEVER stack them on each other. Don't be shy about it either.

[jklasfjkl]

at 7:30 he mentions slamming the heel for the first stroke, and that it‘s not a thing anymore - why? I still see some people that are doing this; is there something wrong with that approach to heel toe?