3 Big Rock Endings - Drum Lesson

[@pentzzsolt]

Literally nobody teaches this for some reason, yet, you literally need it every single time you go on stage. Thanks Mike, great idea and very usable patterns!

[@jolyoncox]

Exactly! Well said.

[@patrickr.452]

Thanks for this!!! I've been playing for almost 40 years and I gig regularly, but I still find myself falling into the same ruts with these endings. I've never been very comfortable with them. This helped a lot!

[@TheJABS]

Audiences love these endings, and they don't HAVE to be that complicated or showy as some think. These are great examples, loving the new videos.

[@mikeslessons]

I 100% agree. Three to eight notes are more than enough. Thanks so so much for the kind words about the new videos Jose.

[@rosslmccallum]

Awesome! Loving the flow of different shots, locations and edit so far. Lots of great personality / teaching really shining through in the video, Mike!

[@mikeslessons]

Thanks a million Ross, that really means a ton bro!

[@diognardi]

Been watching your videos for years. As a music teacher myself now, you have taught me how to teach! Love your lesson ideas, and execution/personality 🙏🏻🎉

[@mikeslessons]

Awe brother… that means the world! 🙏🍵🙏

[@perosa99]

Man, where were you when I needed you (35 years ago 😆). The thing is you are inspiring me to get back on the kit and practice! Very cool stuff👍🏼

[@jean-paulrichard5133]

I always end up with a smile when watching your videos. Your enthusiasm is infectious.

[@Ashlord]

Great video! I play at church and I love doing these cuz they just bring the energy up. Now I have a few more I can practice. Thanks!

[@DanMehta]

Can't forget that after the big ending crash, we must do DA GA Boom (Floor tom, Floor tom, bass drum) to signal the other musicians to cut off :)

[@CraigShawCraigShaw]

I call it 'having the last word!' 😁

[@carsenpiskko9275]

I’ve experienced nailing a song on stage, only to end with a …meh… kinda trashcan crappy ending and felt like it even ruined the entire song. All three of these are great! Very helpful. Thank you.

[@cristaples]

Love the Mozart comment. Mike, you keep my 30 plus years from becoming jaded. I love your presentation and humour and your general bro’ ness. And all of your lessons are very fresh considering I’ve generally seen it all before. But you spin it a way that’s more fun. Thank you. I hope to meet you again one day. (Southampton was good) maybe a camp visit when time allows. 🙏

[@metalinyourhead3604]

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I hear all of these live and have been dying to learn them. You even unintentionally taught the one where you hit your floor Tom twice and then the bass once at 0:15 and more, so thanks for that! Also 100th comment!

[@spencergsmith]

My old teacher called a floor tom 16th triplet followed by a bass drum hit a “bucket o’ bolts”

[@FredMinville]

Big rock endings! I love doing these live

[@CraigShawCraigShaw]

Trash can endings! Love 'em!! Great video. Harry Miree did a great video on endings too.

[@joelcarrier2088]

Thank you for this lesson. I feel like you were speaking directly to me. lol I love that you address the sillyness of recording yourself alone in the room. People tell me to look "like i'm having fun" in my videos, but I'm literally playing to no one in the room. lol. Ahyhoo, I'm stealing/working on the second exercise. I've heard so many people pull off that lick successfully, and it always sounds "badass". (sorry for the Cobra Kai reference) Love your content.

[@ArgenisAlbaD]

Those are basics but super important. Thanks for the vid!

[@danieljuday9419]

As always the best content Mike Johnston! Signed back up this weekend looking forward to jumping back in to the courses, lessons, homework, and sheds! Also joined the Patreon Group for DRUM with Mike & Eddy love the podcast as well listen every Monday! Thanks for everything you do for us Mike always appreciated. 🥁🍵🙏

[@raymondstanner9401]

Played a gig last night, got the cymbal swells but ty Mike for these simple but soooo usable, versatile and easy licks/fills/endings

[@buckjohnson2836]

The audience typically does not remember the beginning of a song, they remember how it ended. LOL This is must learn stuff for the gigging drummer. I've heard many great songs turn to crap due to a loose ending as well as doing it myself! Great call out on this one Mike!

[@MikeNewland]

If in a hole play occasional slow notes works fine and more artistic than show off athletics trying to upstage the guitarist.

[@502bourboncrew2]

Thanks Mike- I never really put much thought into these, I usually end up doing some sort of descending single strokes on the toms that slow down, but this gives me something to shoot for at the next gig

[@johnrobinson8323]

Awesome lesson Mike! It's great to see you more often. Thanks for these very useful ending suggestions! 🥁❤

[@donaldtelain6741]

Wait... John Robinson?!

[@glennkitchen3820]

THE John Robinson?! Lol

[@barryhall3971]

Wow Mike, super timely video. Gig coming up in about 8 weeks - never practiced such things. Thanks. (plan to re-join MikesLessons soon...)

[@Southpaw532]

Love this video. I’ve always done right hand following the kick on the 1st and 3rd kicks, with the left and foot doing KLKKLL 16th triplets on the floor Tom. Combing the two with the last one would be super tasty. Love your lessons and the big rock ending is an essential!

[@jongallardo8006]

I’ve been following you since the old grainy quality video days of KZbin and your “fake double bass” lesson using the floor Tom and kick drum. Glad to see you sharing your passion after all these years 👍🥁

[@scottiejohnson9801]

This made me smile thanks brotha- great stuff

[@mikeevangelista1177]

Always a crowd pleaser lol 🥁🔥 a few here n there then a nice big set ended

[@Paulswindellsdrummer]

Loving those handheld shots mate!

[@eugenemak2624]

Life saver! You're the man Mike Johnston!

[@jolyoncox]

This was an excellent lesson, Mike! Very much appreciated.

[@ManleyReviews]

du PAT DU PAT DU DU DU plat BBRRSSHSHHh

[@mikeslessons]

SKADUSH!!!!!!

[@ManleyReviews]

@@mikeslessons BRDLAbum.

[@jonieevangelista]

yaaa shaka dum haa!!!

[@drumsrlife71418]

Gonna practice these right now, thank you

[@chrisfreeman4957]

The second one is my favorite. Been working on it but... it takes "care" to get it right!

[@rayfabbri3759]

Don’t hold out Oboe’s! Classic Mike. Great.

[@stufromsaturday3957]

Brilliant!! This is the one thing I've never been able to do at all, and hate the "play the whole kit" part of soundcheck with a passion 😂. Thank you so much for sharing. 👊👊👊

[@gusrafael9471]

Very nice,,awesome,,Thank you Mike, God bless you

[@Juandrumx]

Not boring at all. I have always ended songs by add living the ending around the drums and completing the ending with two quarter note flams on the snare and a final crash. These examples that you made are great to practice and add knowingly at the end including the facial lol

[@zulumagoo1]

"Uuum every single rock ending!" I almost fell off my chair. rofl. Im simple. Got me again with stick point in 2nd close. Heck. I might just be in a good mood. Drumming changes a man.

[@robsco1249]

Try Deep Purple Hey Cisco...that Is a fantastic ending...so Is the Battle rages on and lady double dealer...or Hurricane live with Gary Moore, Just awesome... listen them... Ian Paice Is on fire on those.

[@TylerHNothing]

6:12 you could always do the 16th notes as singles on the floor tom with both hands instead of the double stroke in Paradiddle-diddle. Or just one 8th note

[@rickyvillalobos4508]

My two favorites are a six stroke roll with crashes on the accents or a paradiddlediddle between hands and kick. It usually goes HKHHKK but with every repeat my hands go from snare+crash to hats+floor tom.

[@esvarlinparedes2811]

Desde RD activo ..eres un muy duro ✌

[@MrPeter924]

Awesome great music song rock. Drummer. 🤘🤘

[@jeffreytourville6319]

Hilarious, someone says give me some and all u got is a buzz roll 🤣

[@trentmannina8342]

Nearly half the songs I play live need some type of ending like this. Thank you!

[@ddrummer1821]

The OG right here!

[@marceloled3597]

Thanks Mike... very useful... I'm going to practice it to test it little by little. Salute you..

[@davidwilcox9944]

Awesome lesson Mike!

[@tootallforbaseball]

Great lesson from a great teacher!

[@tanmay.tiwari]

Sorry Mike I have maths exam I cannot see it now I will come back here later. ;-;

[@takeshmode]

Ive been there kinda like a deer in headlights when i got invited to a jazz jam session got on the drums (after not playing for a year) then as the song started to end and other guys started to look at me. I realized holy moly i need to end the song with something and made some wacky stuff up because i had no idea what to do especially with jazz. But next time ill make sure to be more prepared lol

[@caarmstro3]

Your just too good brother

[@jzzdrm]

Luv those endings,great teaching

[@MikeNewland]

Love KK paradiddlediddle nicely fits into bar lines too maybe mix with something that only lines up after a year or two. Practising it on my knees several times a day. Kit is at the pawnbrokers. .

[@ER-yq1lc]

Rad! I would add, on top of practicing these things by yourself, don't be afraid to work out orchestrated rave-up endings with your whole band. Especially on a set ender in a high energy band. Yes it's cheesy, but it's also fun as hell, not just for you but your audence too!

[@MonzonMedia]

LMAO! Mozart saying " Gimme some!"

[@Nezopontkerdese]

Thanks Mike!

[@JamesWarrenWatts]

Exactly what I needed.

[@TylerHNothing]

a lot of these are really fast ones too. I like to do big drum fills sometimes at first and speed them up, and move my hands around to different cymbals during the cymbal swells. also bonham fills are good and portnoy fills

[@jimandstacey]

Yes! This is great. I feel like I am constantly letting down the band when I just hit a single crash at the end of a song. I need to make a little more noise at the end of songs. Thanks Mike!

[@JoeyRam.]

Great to have under the sleeve in case one run out of ideas in an unexpected cutted gig.

[@petersejer3343]

Man its not silly. I want to learn it because I love those Big endings

[@philatkinson3955]

Smashbox sick baby! Yes, gimme some, shiggadabiggada!!! 🥁🤘😎

[@chasegabbard2540]

"Well how will I ever use that 😒" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@adarsha9698]

That is very very usefull 🥺❤️

[@Summervibes12-t5z]

Yeah, Shakadoom, Haaaa. Love it!

[@rockytoprecordingreviews4167]

Great content? Check Killer shots? Check Incredible audio? Check Informative and entertaining? Check ✔ and ✅ Of course it's all these! It's Mike Johnston! Am I basically interviewing myself with this style of comment? Yes, yes I am... But let me be perfectly clear about this.... I mean every word! 😁 OK, I had my fun - great video Mike. I'm definitely going to have to add the changed angle on the cymbals to what I already do 😅🤣😂 Such a simple but effective thing.

[@charlessmith263]

Rock endings sometimes means "trash can endings", but trash can endings do not have to be so flashy. One simple "trash canner" in rock is to do this is the cross-stick cymbal trill using 2 cymbals on the L and R sides (leaving the bass drum alone)----and to do the "stinger"--on cue---aka "crash out", you do a flam on the low tom-tom and do the bass drum hit at the same time--and the rock outro (and the song) ends like that. Exclamation point.

[@jameslyons1661]

Awesome video

[@mitchellstaffen5701]

This is great!

[@AsadovElmir]

Thank you, sir!

[@miker5233]

I'll just get up and dance oh I forgot I Can't Dance I'm going to have to practice this man

[@yasserseguradrums]

Is not silly, attitude is 85% of the job 😎👍🏼

[@johnhickman106]

When I think of a big rock ending, I think about “The Grudge” from Tool. It’s over 30 seconds of frenzy.

[@jaakkot9661]

"I bet back in the day Mozart was like "come on french horns!"" 😆😆😆😆

[@aaronbarrdrums6106]

Trashcan endings!! Love it!

[@msparks85]

Drummer speak: "Yeah-shaka-doom-ha" 😂

[@dand9789]

This has happened to me on gigs and I never really know what to do. (I think I've actually done a buzz role, embarrassingly.) Is the little lick you do on the floor tom at the very end a 4-stroke ruff with the primary note on the kick? Pretty sure that's what I'm hearing.

[@jpsncds]

I love trash can endings. Is this the drummer from the band Simon Says?

[@jsspears]

Even Tommy Lee’s taking notes!

[@mikeslessons]

LOL!!! His video could be entitled “286 Thousand Big Rock Endings”. He’s an absolute master of those things.

[@SICRoosterKido]

Thanks! love it

[@terrus75]

It's so easy! But it's so hard 🤣

[@callummasters5189]

Hey Mike what’s the Sticking you do on the floor Tom at the end of a shred?

[@alanpowell24]

GREAT instructor…………

[@drumsrlife71418]

Just wondering but are you giving away a drum kit?

[@jonathanfazio6290]

Mikes so right about the stank face!! Hahaha that made me laugh! It’s true though adding attitude to what you play goes quite far!

[@La_sagne]

ive noticed that im 5 times more proficient playing a song than ending it.. i can do chaotic punk endings, but normal rock i struggle with

[@Bxu021]

Man I'm trying to do this with Midi and man is it hard to make it sound natural XD

[@ToriGirlytar]

Thanks!

[@nixneato]

It is absolutely not silly. Anything that doesn't let you stuck thinking "huh wait...". This falls under the same category as "Hey, play something on the drums for me". Nothing more paralyzing, the old "too many options = no options" syndrome.

[@chasegabbard2540]

My usual go-to is KKRL keeping the right on the floor and letting the left go around acting a fool 🤷‍♂️

[@ignacioperezdelcastillo3182]

Gracias

[@Peterb200295]

2:15 damn I've never gotten a submariner from a band

[@feodordrummer]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@alldog222]

ty man

[@danalnajes]

Can it be called Trash can endings Uncle Mike?

[@mikeslessons]

It can be called anything you want. Call is Cindy for all I care, just be prepared for it! lol 🍵🙏🍵

[@PrattDirkLerxst-qv1ix]

A good example of this is Rock and Roll by Zep. Bonham plays a really cool slow to fast to slow "rock ending" and it is hard to imagine the song without it. But these examples are more general and broadly applicable across many songs. Thanks.

[@jameslyons1661]

❤😂 Shaq I do ha ha

[@vincentzito3933]

The face is the most important part...

[@ignacioperezdelcastillo3182]

💪💪

[@Aa_tisshh]

😁😁😁😁😁