Though I’m not sure if something can be called a “rant” when you spend >50% of it in dumbfounded silence. Edited from a Twitch stream, here’s little video of me talking about those drumming YouTubers […]
Category: drumming videos
Double strokes… again
This came up on REDDIT. That site. It’s a mixed bag over there, some decent, informed conversation, some very not. With the added game-like element of “upvoting” and “downvoting” things people like, or not. On […]
SITE NEWS: Video activities, Germany
NEWS: You may have noticed the rumblings, some stuff is afoot: CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER! on TwitchThis week I’ve been doing some video streams on Twitch— nothing serious, just getting myself on camera playing some of […]
YouTube solo analyzed
Elaborating on a question I answered on a forum— someone was asking about the playing in the video below. Here is a little bit of analysis of it, and some suggestions about how you should […]
Messing with the EAD 10
I got a Yamaha EAD 10 recently— a popular interface/recording device for making drum cover videos. It’s suddenly clear why there has been such a proliferation of those videos— there’s infrastructure for it now. You […]
Something strange
This person is making a lot of videos composing accompaniment for drum solo videos by some well known players, “adding music”, as he says. The first few minutes explain this was done, then there’s an […]
On the massive overabundance of things to practice
A nagging question with every single thing I post: Am I putting up too much, am I part of the problem— the problem being: there’s way too much stuff to practice on the drums now, […]
Beware of formulas
Making that Shadow Wilson transcription, I was reminded of this video fellow blogger Jon McCaslin shared with me (and Ted Warren of Trap’d), in which drummer Bernie Dresel shares his formula for comping with the […]
It’s about records, it’s about records, it’s about records
I’m noticing— online, and to a lesser degree with some students— a lot of people approaching the drums mainly in terms of drumming media. Books and videos, and the drumming concerns they promote, are the […]
My objections to drumming videos
Posting this instead of the bilious, totally unproductive anti-YouTube drumming video rant I was working on, entitled Satan’s Vomitorium. Don’t worry, it wasn’t any good, or even finished— you’re not missing anything. See this post […]
“Worst drummer ever”
Bookending Sunday’s false prodigies rant, I suppose. Worst drummer ever is title of this video shared by Paul Mason (@tempusdrums) on Twitter. I watched the whole thing, which is more than I can say for […]
False prodigies
My apologies for the many wordy posts lately. I don’t want to be a words/opinions guy. I’m working on a lot of outside stuff, so I have to post what I have, and that happens […]