If you are serious about playing drums, it's not just about playing Crue tunes. You can only get so far with bashing the drums. If you want to truly be able to play the way Tommy Lee plays, you must spend time on your technique and the way you actually hit the drum.
This is not fun and it feels boring. You will get tired of playing patterns that you don't understand in relation to Motley Crue or anything that you like to listen to.
I can tell you this.
If you put your mind to learning how to hit the drums the right way, your potential is the sky.
I just came across this video. It's the kind of technique that I am talking about. It's not exciting but... I hope that you will watch it several times until the concepts are drilled into your mind. Also, you will not see an improvement in your drumming skills tomorrow by watching the video today. It will be several months until you are playing drums and BOOM! what was hard to do is easier to do.
It looks like there's many videos by this guy. I would watch it several times before going on to the next video.
Also, reduce the speed of the video so that it is a slower tempo - I did that when I was first trying to play with him. I think he assumes that the viewer is able to keep up with him!
Here it is.
https://youtu.be/QLzbnOEflyg
Showing posts with label Tommy Lee. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
You Need to Refocus
This is the text of a message I sent to my nephew who recently started playing drums. After I sent the message, I realized that it is also a message to myself except that instead of references to Motley Crue and Tommy Lee, I would have wrote about Metallica and Lars Ulrich
Monday, December 3, 2018
Disrespectful
I steal. It's that simple. When I play drums, I am stealing from Joe Morello, Stewart Copeland, Lars Ulrich, John Bonham, and Neil Peart - among others I'm not thinking of at this precise moment. I hear someone's drum beat and I think about how I can use it in something I am playing during Mass.
For example, when I nail anything that this drummer does on the Yamaha electronic kit in the den, I will groove to it in a live setting:
Same with this groove:
which I saw in this video:
That is why when I saw this bullshit Tommy Lee is spouting about how other drummers stole his roller coaster drum riser idea from him, I couldn't stop thinking about how true the first sentence of this post is.
I steal.
Tommy Lee probably would say that listening to "Band A" and "Band B" inspired him to play drums when he was young. That's what drummers do. They listen to music, try to duplicate what they hear and, from there, they likely invent their own variation of what they hear. It's disrespectful to read that Tommy Lee wants to take credit for anything in his drumming. He's not being honest. When he plays 2 and 4 on the snare, that's Ringo Starr, who played drums long before Lee was born. When Lee opens his hi-hat on the off-beat during "Dr. Feelgood," that sounds like The Police's Stewart Copeland's playing on "Every Breath You Take," which came out in 1983 - "Dr. Feelgood" was released in the early 90s.
One other thought. Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
For example, when I nail anything that this drummer does on the Yamaha electronic kit in the den, I will groove to it in a live setting:
Same with this groove:
which I saw in this video:
That is why when I saw this bullshit Tommy Lee is spouting about how other drummers stole his roller coaster drum riser idea from him, I couldn't stop thinking about how true the first sentence of this post is.
I steal.
Tommy Lee probably would say that listening to "Band A" and "Band B" inspired him to play drums when he was young. That's what drummers do. They listen to music, try to duplicate what they hear and, from there, they likely invent their own variation of what they hear. It's disrespectful to read that Tommy Lee wants to take credit for anything in his drumming. He's not being honest. When he plays 2 and 4 on the snare, that's Ringo Starr, who played drums long before Lee was born. When Lee opens his hi-hat on the off-beat during "Dr. Feelgood," that sounds like The Police's Stewart Copeland's playing on "Every Breath You Take," which came out in 1983 - "Dr. Feelgood" was released in the early 90s.
One other thought. Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Overrated!!!....Overrated!!!....Overrated!!!.... C'mon Everybody!
The Top Ten Most Overrated Drummers Of All Time
From the article:
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Lars Ulrich – Metallica is simply the most revered, best loved metal band of all time. And guess what – they’re drummer sucks.
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Question for the author - did you meant to write "And guess what – they are drummer sucks."?
From the article:
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Lars Ulrich – Metallica is simply the most revered, best loved metal band of all time. And guess what – they’re drummer sucks.
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Question for the author - did you meant to write "And guess what – they are drummer sucks."?
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