Berklee Grad Teaches 6 Foot Speed Exercises for Drum Set!

[@NathanSletner]

Bro, I know why you titled it how you did, but you are SO far beyond a “Berklee Grad”. You’re the shit. All the love, man!

[@jharis.yokley]

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@dmacprod]

This was amazing bro

[@RyanLivesForGodAlways]

Forgive other people when they do mean or bad things to you and if you do not forgive others their sins, you will not be forgiven y God, and if someone insults you, compliment them. Jesus loves yall Have a great day everyone and Jesus loves yall. If you believe in God, read the Bible and pray to strengthen your relationship with God. You know that there is a real Heaven and a real hell, get connected with God. You’re amazing! Matthew 6:15 - But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Amen!

[@RyanLivesForGodAlways]

@@jharis.yokley Forgive other people when they do mean or bad things to you and if you do not forgive others their sins, you will not be forgiven y God, and if someone insults you, compliment them. Jesus loves yall Have a great day everyone and Jesus loves yall. If you believe in God, read the Bible and pray to strengthen your relationship with God. You know that there is a real Heaven and a real hell, get connected with God. You’re amazing! Matthew 6:15 - But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Amen!

[@Francisepdrums]

Loved that you put “real world” examples of every exercise! 🙏🏽🔥

[@elielbuenrostro963]

Exactly!!

[@yogeshlorekar1234]

Great exercise .. thanks for shearing..❤🙏🏻

[@ruoccolv]

Thank you for leaving the frustrating mistakes in your videos! It is very motivating to know that it’s not so much about natural ability, but how much repetition and practice is required. Keep up the good work!

[@dominikn19]

Maestro Yokley. 👑

[@rodneyljones59]

Appreciate you!! 🤝🏾

[@andreasbreitwieser1449]

Enjoy your music 🎶and enjoy your exercises. THANKS a lot for sharing, you're on 🔥The Way 🔥🥁

[@Doc2rjae07]

Awesome Lesson

[@iangubbins]

Well this guy is gonna absolutely pop off soon.

[@luisfernando-mm3jt]

Nice work

[@rubenlopezcastillo8056]

Great lesson

[@warrenh]

These are great! I appreciate the real world examples and that we get to see you pushing yourself past your comfort zones.

[@wilkinsnl]

The finish on that kit is gorgeous.

[@monkeymalletsvideos]

Yay Jharis! Dave Dumitru...Mr. Dumitru to you...here. So great to see you getting so far on your percussive journey!

[@MikeSchertenlieb]

lol i exclaimed when you did the first doubles exercise at tempo. great ideas all around!

[@RalphLeMou]

This was a game changer for me, instanstly flipped my brain upside down and improved my playing by just one session, many thanks for this.

[@iternityhuman1782]

gr8 kit set up Bro, mad skills!!!

[@noaheslinger1867]

bro u are insanely underrated. this is super helpful stuff and you are an incredibly skilled drummer.

[@johnrobinson8323]

Thanks for these awesome exercises! 🥁❤️

[@Original_na_original]

Man, you’re the soul of 21th century drumming. Such a cool blend of modern vocabulary with creativity and overall nice and chill personality! Love ya❤ p.s lessons are absolutely dope, hits right in the spot of technical problems

[@enuffallready]

Fried rice! Saw Jharis with Jose James. Great show. We all left amazed with the drumming. What an awesome drummer.

[@Houzez.]

Excellent as always, it would be great to see a video of double stroke techniques on the bass drum.

[@eddievandongendrums]

Love it Jharis!n Keep this up, Would love to see some more of these concept breakdowns keeping the groove going while exploring singles, doubles, paradiddles into your playing!

[@alexveraza1922]

Amazing exercices wow!

[@julibataca]

Man, you are an amazing musician. Your way to play drums inspire me so much. This content is so good; I love it.

[@thelmabradley7176]

I am loving the triplet doubles too!! 🥰🥰 Thanks so very much, Jharis!!❤❤🥰🥰

[@brohan24]

this is exactly what i needed. working on the 5th exercise right now, and it’s a fun challenge, particularly where you have to switch from 16ths back to triplets cleanly. thanks a lot for sharing your exercises, jharis! btw, you’re hella fast bro lol

[@ZaneStackhouse]

This is good shit bro, I was afraid it might have been a little "clickbaity" with the title but these are some really specific and helpful exercises.

[@thelmabradley7176]

Thanks so very much for displaying the alteration on the left and right foot or vice versa, and using singles with your hands while incorporating both feet , one at a time, Jharis!!❤❤❤❤

[@CommonSenseMusician]

I love how practical and direct these exercises are. Just straight to the point. Keep it coming, man.

[@bryansam5987]

My man! Love the lesson! Now on to the kit I shall go!

[@rodriambrogio6427]

thanks for this content man, I find it really useful

[@braxtonbeatbandit]

Just the stuff I’ve been looking for-thanks Jharis!!

[@TheZooNinjaS]

Love this man!

[@brianhamlet7666]

Nasty work my man. These will definitely help any drummer. Especially me!!! Thanks I’m subscribing.

[@brak1381]

Man, I can’t thank you enough for the exercise and advice. Top notch work 👏😎☮️

[@Vzyane]

Hey bro! I love your lessons! Could we get a lesson on how you practice your hand control and dynamics? Ive been wanting to know how you control your dynamics in your playing 😭 thnks man!

[@universe7632]

Thank you.

[@tobytoxd]

wow, great video and very inspiring!! thank you very much for sharing your gift and experience!!

[@F.Sarpong]

Could you do some independence exercises

[@kapiltriv]

Great video

[@phillippeharris5557]

Mann this is awesome you have exercises that actually translate when playing! Thanks so much

[@blanknickname]

Top!!tnx man

[@hapadusky]

Great exercises. Thanks for sharing!

[@joshautrydrums]

Preciate this bro!! I’d love to see a video breaking down kick pedal settings/optimizing spring tension and footboard angle + all that stuff

[@jharis.yokley]

I’ll work on that!

[@FabioRiveraSantanadrums]

Yeaaah❤🔥

[@nunnayuhbitness6708]

Kudos for pursuing your own voice.

[@TochSticksMusic]

Man! Thanks for these 🙏🏾 ❤️

[@SimonAvrushenko]

Beyond helpful, appreciate it👊🔥

[@christopheborlee921]

Jharis Yokley = fire chill bro

[@Absolute_Unit]

Great video ! Is there any way you could make a video showing us drills to build limb independence ?

[@jharis.yokley]

@@Absolute_Unit yes, that’s definitely on the horizon! 🙏🏿

[@nicsster1]

I love this lessons. Your amazing. Please can you do a lesson on foot technique. Also on how to play doubles on a single pedal. Thanks.

[@imiss2016]

Can u please do your favorite colorful or creative chops!

[@alexkalogeras9269]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jeduthunadesina]

Amazing. Thank you sharing🙏👍

[@ryandebenedetti]

Bro please keep doing these vids!

[@jeffmalpezzi145]

Great lesson, awesome content as always

[@StuartJrBarrett]

Great content

[@Em-ws2tr]

Super helpful! And I'm a big band drummer.

[@anonpreeya4104]

This is awesome man!

[@sevenfacecomplex]

man this the best foot video of all time dude.. hardddd

[@elijah108]

great vid!

[@CarlHamilton1914]

This video was super helpful and I can’t wait to dig into it! For a video idea, it’d be cool to see your approach on improving your ride cymbal technique? I heard Tony Williams used a “drop catch” technique and I’d be curious to see your take on applying this. Thank you in advance

[@vivienverrecchia7920]

Yess jharis I was waiting for it !

[@monkeymalletsvideos]

So many old 'jazz' guys ( not drummers) always used to tell us to just hit the hat at 2 and 4. you're right. That was just putting us in a cage.

[@leeyatding]

You are super awesome

[@adeniyisuccess3736]

🎉🎉

[@jameeldababneh4757]

Great video! Do you use the slide technique for fast doubles or just 2 ankle hits with 1 knee drop (same as larnell lewis technique)? If you can do another video about foot technique it would awesome 🔥

[@jharis.yokley]

Mainly 2 ankle hits per knee drop 🤘🏿

[@chris4mac]

Excellent stuff dude! Been looking to improve my pocket specifically with my kick hits, def think this is gonna help. Thank you! Any other tips for working on pocket?

[@jharis.yokley]

Maybe I’ll do a video on this but, to me, improving pocket has a lot more to do with playing along to records than a metronome. So I would play along with any music that you think is right in the pocket

[@chris4mac]

@@jharis.yokley Makes a lot of sense! I feel like a lot of time while I'm playing, things feel pretty good but when I listen back to recordings I'm like 🤦🏻‍♂Gonna go put in some time on the kit, thanks for the reply!

[@slimini2015]

Lol how is this not more popular

[@Xolin11]

I appreciate you showing the learning process as well as the application. when you end up in a situation where you're playing a part of one of the exercises in the real world, do you set a boundary saying "don't go there" for the sections that you tend to slip up on? or do you take the risk? I'm guessing you ended up cleaning that section with the 3lets to 16ths after what was shown in the video recording either way.

[@jharis.yokley]

@@Xolin11 in the real world I almost always take the risk. I feel that even if I mess up, it’s not the end of the world. Also, I’ve learned how to cover up mistakes over the years 🙏🏿

[@vanialeedrums]

these are so helpful!! thanks so much. also what meinl hi hats are those?

[@jharis.yokley]

15” byzance extra dry 🙏🏿

[@dcd_cabrera]

V nice JY. How do you find playing different kits backline on tour? Do you travel w your own pedal? Adjust tension/settings of the pedal there? Or just train the foot to do it on anything?

[@jharis.yokley]

I train the foot to be able to play any pedal 🙏🏿

[@bobmarshall9284]

great video, thank you! do you have any advice for playing the doubles specifically? are you sliding into them or just kind of treating them like two singles in a row? that’s something i struggle w for sure. hope for more vids, these are great

[@jharis.yokley]

Sometimes I slide into the doubles but most times I’m trying to get two ankle strikes for every knee drop. If that makes sense. I haven’t really spent much time on foot technique in general

[@bobmarshall9284]

@@jharis.yokley yeah that makes sense. thx bro!

[@nickrails]

Awesome exercises with real musical applications......man your execution at high tempos is impressive. A future video regarding foot technique for high tempo doubles would be really useful. What technique (s) are you using once uou start hitting 140 plus?

[@jharis.yokley]

@@nickrails thanks 🙏🏿. For sure, I’ll probably do a foot technique video in the future

[@nickrails]

@jharis.yokley Cheers man, loving the channel

[@martinbursztein9354]

This exercises are great I cant wait to start incorporating them in my routine, but can you tell me for how much time should you do each of them, and how you plan your resting periodos in between to avoid injury, cause I m 48 and I feel that my body Isnt the same as before, i got to practice safely and inteligently, i cant aford geting injured

[@jharis.yokley]

@@martinbursztein9354 everything is based on how I’m feeling that day. The exercises that are harder for me probably get more reps than the easier ones. I don’t plan my resting periods, I just take a break whenever I get tired or if something feels weird 🙏🏿

[@martinbursztein9354]

@jharis.yokley ok man I see you, thanks for your reply, great playing and tips for us to learn

[@Playername_Blue]

🔥

[@ninthlyfe6838]

Yo Jharis, I've been following your work and your channel for about a month now. I really hope these videos will be super helpful for me. Do you have any tips for me regarding triple strokes on the single kick (~3 years, self taught)? I can do doubles pretty fast but triples always mess me up and I end up locking up during the 2nd stroke at medium tempos. It just feels like a mental thing since I can do it without thinking sometimes but every other time I try it it just doesn't seem to click.

[@jharis.yokley]

Growing up, I always used to play along to the song “In The End” by Linkin Park. Playing that kick pattern over and over made my foot faster playing three and four strokes 🙏🏿

[@rayboreham2648]

Any chance of a pdf showing the various exercises?

[@jharis.yokley]

Maybe down the line I’ll put everything in a downloadable book

[@monkeymalletsvideos]

Have you tried triplets with the kick against paradiddles with the hands?

[@jharis.yokley]

@@monkeymalletsvideos yup that’s a classic

[@alesh_k]

Awesome! Would you do all of them everyday for a month or something? Or would you split them up somehow?

[@jharis.yokley]

@@alesh_k the first exercise I would do everyday for sure. The others can be split up depending on what you wanna work on at the moment 🙏🏿

Dooope !

[@maximpopov199]

How did you do this Man?

[@jharis.yokley]

@@maximpopov199 lol 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@creative-dotcom]

How many minutes should I practice each exercise?

[@jharis.yokley]

There isn’t really an ideal length of time. Once you get the coordination down, just doing it every day for a few minutes while increasing the speed will get the job done

[@GoodOleDrums]

I have a simple question that I hope you will see and find time to answer: How much difference do you find in the pedal type you use? Single/double chain, direct drive, belt? And also, do you have a favorite type of pedal or a favorite specific go-to pedal and for what simple reason. Your time and experience is valuable so thank you for the lesson! 🙏🏿

[@jharis.yokley]

90% of the time I won’t adjust the pedal that I play on. Over the years I’ve learned ways to be able to play similarly on any pedal 🙏🏿 I don’t think I have a preference when it comes to single/double chain or anything like that

[@GoodOleDrums]

@@jharis.yokley thank you for responding. I try to develop my foot skills to play on whatever is available so I’ll continue it.

[@ashtonmclernonsmith3077]

does it also work if your 5'11????

[@jharis.yokley]

@@ashtonmclernonsmith3077 well, of course!

[@dtegg91]

Are you in the Pfizer Building on Flushing? Looks like Woodhull Hospital behind you.

[@jharis.yokley]

@@dtegg91 nah my spot is close to the Pfizer building though🤘🏿

[@marcopolo4468]

My foot literally just got faster tf

[@RainbowBlondeRecords]

🌈🌈🌈

[@RyanLivesForGodAlways]

Forgive other people when they do mean or bad things to you and if you do not forgive others their sins, you will not be forgiven y God, and if someone insults you, compliment them. Jesus loves yall Have a great day everyone and Jesus loves yall. If you believe in God, read the Bible and pray to strengthen your relationship with God. You know that there is a real Heaven and a real hell, get connected with God. You’re amazing! Matthew 6:15 - But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Amen!