The drum pattern that changed my life

Special thanks to:
Paiste Cymbals
Vater Drumsticks
Gretsch Drums
Revolution Drum Co.
Red Bridge Studios

Recorded at Red Bridge Studios

[AndrewMiller-tcxx]

I have been struggling with limb independence heavily after stopping drumming for a few years. Needed an exercise like this to relearn it the right way. I have a gig in a few weeks that I was stressing about, but after running through this a few times, I feel a lot better. Thank you for your generosity!

[WuzzleTime]

Brand new self taught drummer here! This video is leaving me sitting in my computer chair with my mouth open. Definitely a challenge I'm looking forward to practicing! Thank you for putting yourself out there with these drumming videos.

[mikemccormick]

Thank you so much for taking the time to put this lesson together. You explained everything so clearly and enthusiastically! In this day and age of immense greed, you freely shared this wisdom, with your only compensation being the hope that it helps the drumming community to get past a difficult milestone. Thank you!

[emontzka]

I was on a double bill with Danilo Perez’s trio in the 90’s with a then unknown Antonio Sanchez on drums. I asked him how he became so fluent playing left foot clave (which he is ridiculously good at). He started with a similar approach with bass drum on “a” of one and “and” of two, but then it moves to incorporating hand/bass drum combinations as well while keeping left foot clave going.

[Pelipcahh]

Challenge accepted! This looks VERY challenging, but as a self-taught drummer, limb independence has been VERY difficult.

[Thregh]

This is all you need to get better at drumming in the beginner/intermediate level. I'm self learned, and have had some drumming lessons. I got the exercise to do the 4 singles variation accents, I was told to start with them, and then that will improve my skills. Many times you want it to be much more cool and advanced, just do the basics.

Fantastic great film editing! Thumbs up! 👍

[enzof.]

Brazilians really loved that ❤ Thanks for the lesson

[AdrumaVictoria]

You are a generous man, your dreams will come true.

[OliveAbyss]

I did a lesson with Tim Alexander from Primus and this was one of the things he recommended doing for practice too!

[aurelio]

This is fantastic, congratulations and thank you!

[mickw]

Super exercises. You are the Groove Master!

[TheJennivision]

Quite a talent to put together a great lesson but then present it so well too. Really well done

[mikemolaro]

This is awesome. Thanks. Clear and well demonstrated. Super simple, but not easy! Time to work on it.

[A.Man..]

Woah! been watching all sorts of teachers, you are amazing, you break everything down and make it so manageable. ive been playing for years, paid gigs too, but only cos i could keep time and groove, i have no chops...but your channel is the best, you break it down so simply and youre a phenomenal player. you deserve 1m subs

[sobrehombre]

I saw the video. Thanks !

One way I reach to practice with that was with independency, this mean: all three limbs keep one group and the free limb play though all the 16 variations. For example, right hand, right feet and left feet keep doing the variation 1, meanwhile the right hand play all the 16 variations. When you finish that only one limb change to the second variation (left hand for example), left feet and right feet keeps doing the 1 variation. Now, right hand play again the 16 variations. And so son. This is a nested loop. You can have more than 72000 combinations only with that.

With that, you will have a very very very solid vocabulary (only for existence), you can multiply all those practices with accents, flam and doubles and you will get ~72.000 x 3 (at least).

That's only if you count the binary subdivision. You can do the same with the triplets, quintuplets and 7-tuplets.

Thanks for this!

[filipebraganca]

Really really great exercices. I've being drumming for over 20 years and never practice this way, really good. Thanks for sharing.

[MrAngryTwinkie]

Fantastic lesson, and a great way to get a ton of miles out of a simple broad concept.

[ConnorBailey-il]

This exercise has really forced me to imporve my counting and accuracy. This is great, thank you.

[performershealth]

Love it. I do this exact same thing with my students. Great stuff. Following now.