How To Master Playing To The Click 🏆🥁 With One Exercise!

This video explains and demonstrates how you can master playing to a click in any situation...with one simple exercise. Check it out! SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL for more great free drum lessons, tips, advice and cool product reviews!

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[starr_]

BRO!!!😏 if some of these drummers really understood how important this lesson really is. And to all of my drummers out there, everyone had to start from "somewhere" that has gotten good on the drums. They wasn't born knowing how to play with a click etc lol, therefore practice really does makes perfect. This is gold Mr Rob, you're truly awesome in what you do my brother!🙂

[louisanthony]

I remember being very humbled by a click once. I was brought in to play in a studio session for a jazz/funk group. It was a full band live recording with a huge horn section. Really good music. Before this I never really played with a click much other than private practice, but wasn’t very disciplined. When the music started, I started out ok, but as soon as I went for a fill, I was way off time. The band stopped 4 times, and was kind of annoyed with me. Luckily the conductor was really patient and very encouraging. I was beyond embarrassed. After the session, I went home and started practicing with a click and worked to become disciplined. It’s so important to use a click especially if you’re a drummer.

[RJWPG]

I absolutely love the way you teach. You instill confidence and break things down into easy to understand pieces - critical to being an excellent teacher and communicator!

[firstnamelastname]

You break things down in such a simple and clear way that it instills confidence before the exercise has even begun!

[DruMusica]

Bringing the concept of confidence when it comes to playing to the click is EXTREMELY relevant.

I always felt it’s more complicated than a practical issue. There is something deeper about this, the click could somehow be experienced like being deprived of your main role in a band or an orchestra. It’s like an unreachable horizon that will always be better at keeping time than you. It can make you feel that when it appears, it becomes in charge and takes the rhythmic lead above all the instruments including you, one of its subproducts.

The way you consider the metronome plays an essential part. It drove me crazy so many times, at some point I became scared of recording my drums and only anticipated failure, listening back only to catch all the small flaws instead of how it looks like from above.

The point being: the metronome will improve you and make you better on one essential aspect of your art, BUT in itself it’s pointless, it will never make music, and you should see it as a wave that you want to move along with, not as separate dots that individually remind you how not straight you are (and always will be).

Great job!

[mppaiges]

What a wonderful and "put your mind at ease" way to show drummers how to use the click track and not be afraid of it. I tip my hat and I give you a hug as a drummer brother. In myh heyday in the 80s I got a lot of gigs by walking into a studio that I was called to and they didn't tell me who the artist was. They would ask me to go into the big room of Electric ladyland or the Record Plant and in the center of the room would be an electronic drum kit. The room is pretty dark I would put on my headphones and it would start begin different time patterns through the cans. Then the guy running the audition would say okay play a straight beat in 2/4. Then I would do that and they would either speed up the click track or they would ask me to go around the kit in time. If I could do it then they would complicate the time. or ask me to switch to a funk groove play some Clydie Stubblefield to The click track. Then we might speed it up really fast to 160 and asked me to play Disco beat or punk beat. On one occasion I did just that and the lights go on and Billy Idol walks out of the control room and he wants me to be his drummer. I got a bunch of gigs like that and when you get a reputation for being able to play to a click, and then learn how to play ahead of it and behind it, then when you're on stage your time is automatically better because those subdivisions are always with you. Wonderful way to introduce drummers to a click track. Using the click and learning how to read will triple or quadruple the number of gigs you will get. what a user-friendly video thank you Rob

[ddhyper]

I am all over YouTube watching drumming instruction vids.... I keep coming back to they are simply the best. Great job Rob !!!

[Kerry_kit_slayer]

Broken down to simple form so even a luddite like me can figure it out. You're the man.

[billshq]

I've been playing drums for 20 years now and been playing with clicks for about 5 years now and I'm still not comfortable even though I have to play with a click track every Sunday lol great video

[lobbyrobby]

I've only been learning the drums for about 5 months now. I've just been practicing beats and some fills. The other day I thought I'd try to play my first full song. After I learned the song and started playing I quickly realized my timing is terrible. I've hardly been practicing with a metronome. That will change now. I learned my lesson

[kdw]

One thing that help me to play to a click while playing a gig was to find a click pitch that didn't seem to blend into and be absorbed by what the other instruments were playing. Kind of like when you mix multi track and EQ so everything has it's own space. A lower pitch seems to work best for me. Then I just imagine the click is a procession player with really great time that I am interacting with.

[azatara]

I’m so intimidated by the click track. I just found this video and will do this exercise for the next couple of weeks.
Thanks so much for breaking it down so easily!

[dannypagan]

Your confidence with the click is inspiring!

[rogergonzalez]

Great lesson helped me alot yesterday on a recording session. I was able to nail it down thanks

[bigpicturesstudio]

thats great man, wish i could play drums, always wanted to play drum past 50 years

[dougpopejoy]

What? You make it seem totally effortless.
This is an ingenious exercise.
I'm a guitar player but will definitely be trying this technique.

[pnsmith]

Great for feet workout as well .. feel the

[bigsquatchsasfoot]

Thanks rob, ive always been a little afraid of the click but it ain’t that tuff if you get locked in and mess it up a bit.
Great playing and some fab chops nice one thanks man 👍🥁

[yusufalao]

Nice! Nice! Nice! Good work. Enjoyable & educational as always.
I have a very similar exercise where I start really slow at say, 60bpm with one hit per click, then two, then three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine & ten hits. Then back down. Then repeat faster. Haven't figured out eleven hits yet but it will come! As an added bonus, it also helps smooth out those singles strokes.

[AndrewWoodley-ym]

very use full, mental thing .get it in your head first .now easy . thanks