BEST WORKOUT For DEVELOPING FINGER CONTROL! w/ Beatdown

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

*Never underestimate the strength of the pinky!* You can quote me on that 🤓🥁#LooseHands2018

[@slimjim1104]

I do stuff like this often chillin too. Helps with ghost notes and dynamics.

[@kimcarig714]

What's the bpm Rob? Thanks!

[@stickman5454]

Right on Rob no tea drinkers allowed!

[@davedalessandroDalessandro]

Man I've been playing drums for 30 years by ear only never learned groupings and counting 1 and 2 and 3 or paradiddles so I thank you for your videos I'm trying to break my bad habits and do this the right way so I thank you again you're making me a better drummer

[@riokdenn]

Oh my, this channel is a gold mine.

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

Thanks for discovering it. Welcome to the channel 🙂👊🏽🇨🇦

[@adamschroeder6460]

this exercise went a little better today than I did yesterday and the day before ... but man those fives throw me every time! You make it look and sound easy.. it is not! You rock!

[@raybrun9193]

I so appreciate you, I’m 67 years young and after watching your videos I’m seriously considering starting to play again, I’ve always played with bands but never took it seriously .I really want to thank you for sharing your knowledge .keep up your great work....

[@JBBOULAYDRUMS]

GET BACK ON IT - absolutely!! Best to you

[@mumuz34]

Rob, this exercice totally fixed my grip issues, pure magic. Thanks a lot keep working this well !

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

Wicked👌🏽🤓

[@wikuslombard6373]

I've seen the light!! That lesson improved my technique tenfold. Thank you Rob

[@joetoe9207]

Love it! Exposes left hand weakness...tx!

[@pog7547]

My finger control is complete garbage. Thank you for making this video.

[@12hertford]

Don’t underestimate the power of the pinky! That’s one of THE best drumming quotes rob! Nice exercise 😎

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

Thanks, dude 🙂

[@davidbaak8121]

I think this is one of the most clear and clean exercises I watched yet! Thanks!

[@davee.4594]

My first teacher called it "Captain Pinky". No bs. Loose hands still need to be in control. Pinky is almost the anchor if you will. IMO. And I am now learning how important it is to be able to count and subdivide 1 through 8 in the beat. Which may have been quarters. Not sure... counting and subdividing is crucial. But finger control is the point. Beatdown Brown is a great teacher.

[@jrtrejo495]

Mr. Brown, You are Spectacular! I’m getting back to playing seriously and it’s amazing to doing this as it’s a perishable skill. But your hands and fingers will remember. Thank You.

[@vlastion]

What's a 'perishable skill'? Do you mean it dies off if you don't practise?

[@fernandobertin1125]

Me too I'm getting back to playing drums. My left hand is miles away from having the same skills of my right hand :(

[@brub5174]

@@fernandobertin1125 how's that going 😁

[@castlehilldude]

Thank you sir! In times like these this video almost qualifies as a public service! Thank you again and stay safe!!👍🥁

[@deniseschroeder4096]

Hi Rob. My name is David Schroeder. I Stumbled across your videos. I played drums just myself as a teen. Wish I'd stayed with it all these yrs. I love bluegrass which mostly has no drums. I bought a banjo, & just didn't pick it up. My love for drums got me searching for a kit again at 60-yrs old. Seen a Yamaha Custom Stage kit for sale & started to look for vids on how they sound when I came across you tuning a base drum. Started following your vids and love your exercise ones. Took my 12 yr old grandson to C.A. House of music & got us both practice pads & sticks. Practicing my singles & doubles & hand control. So much info that I never had 40-yrs ago. Thank you for what you do. Gotta sell my banjo b4 I get a kit, but it will happen. Gonna help get my grandson a kit if he shows interest, but I plan on continuing to encouraging him. I've shared your vids to him so he can practice also on his phone. Thanks again for what you do. May GOD bless you!

[@23ograin53]

This is a polymeter exercise as much as a fingers exercise. Excellent!

[@marklucia8852]

Awesome lessons!! I'm 64 and haven't played for 10yrs. I know your videos will help greatly with control and bounce for me. Great teacher! You remind me of Lenny White when you play your kit.

[@ZachBratland]

If you only knew how much that quote changed my life back in November

[@SockerConny80]

I just cant get over how beautiful that kit is!

[@KassonAvePod]

This channel is awesome. I just started with drums about a week or so ago. I found you on Day 2 and I already feel more comfortable with sticks in my hand. I’m 31 and the learning curve is gone. Now it’s gotta be all hard work! 💪

[@marzz133]

Love it! Thanks Rob, really enjoy your play-along type vids. Very helpful. Trying to build up that single stroke speed for 2018!

[@michaelbaratto7026]

Thank you very much for sharing !!! - fantastic lessons !!! - I love it !!! Makes me practicing again - !!! Greetings and Blessings from Germany and Austria - Michael

[@williambagent6143]

Thanks so much for the videos. I really like how you keep it fun and interesting.

[@wikuslombard6373]

You are a gifted teacher Rob.

[@ayushbansal7860]

Tried this exercise in Unison. And took me to the new whole world of challenges. Indeed this guy is a maestro. ❤🎉

[@billdeleon316]

Love this guy, his method is so clear and simple,, easy to understand and follow,, your the man Brown....

[@MrRemo71]

We did that exercise back in my drum line days. Very effective. Good video!

[@djrendazz6105]

After long training, finally able to play at full speed. started at 75% very good exercise. Does great things with the hands. GREAT CHANNEL!!!!

[@khamlisenaga4859]

This video deserves more views... Thanks man..👏👏👏

[@kunstprodukt]

I learned that same one as a warm up exercise from Simon Phillips in a workshop back in the nineties...still doing it

[@kellyrains4976]

Just started watching your videos...GREAT INSTRUCTION...KEEP IT UP!!!

[@WESPN92]

Just starting private lessons for drumset and came across your channel. These videos are perfect! Thank you 🙏🏾

[@dav.trinch8643]

you are a phenomenal instructor

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

Thanks man 🙂👊🏽

[@johncostablemd18]

You're the best and the coolest drum teacher. Thanks man....love all your videos!

[@karmickpc]

Love your videos, Rob! Excellent work, mate! Cheers from Australia.

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

Wuddup, Australia 🇦🇺🙂 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@MauricioLJ]

Another great lesson from the Master Beatdown. You're the man Rob.

[@fernandobertin1125]

Thanks a lot Rob! Your lessons are really awesome!!

[@remix2112]

Great exercise, Mr. Beatdown! In doing this exercise, for some reason, I get tripped up when counting 7's. I now sing the keyboard part from the beginning of the solo from Rush's Tom Sawyer. Then I go back to counting 8 or 6, depending on which way I'm going in the exercise.

[@teeoh9192]

HO-LEE SHXT...It NEVER occurred to me to hum the keyboard part to "Tom Sawyer"! I just did it & it FXXKING WORKS! Thanks for that suggestion!

[@thinktank8389]

Thank you, good hard work pays!!

[@DrumSmithRich]

whew that was awesome! Mental and physical challenge I Loved it

[@TheEpiphany325]

11:25 precisely, i'm getting problems playing 5, & 7, 6 is not too perfect but i had to slow the video down to get those 5 and 7 grouping, but great video man, thank you!

[@djbliss7652]

how did you slow down the video?

[@TheEpiphany325]

@@djbliss7652 there's a little gear icon on the video, click it and click speed and select 0.75 or 0.50 or 0.25

[@djbliss7652]

@@TheEpiphany325 Awesome find. Thank you Keston Stewart!

[@redsoxtoni]

Awesome vid. Thanks for sharing your knowledge & skills 🤘

[@nickfili9409]

Hah! did this with you in my office (I keep a pair of stick and a putty pad in my credenza), and I found I have some work to do training my ear to track 5s and 7s over a 4/4 click! Especially 7s. Thank you, brutha!

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

No sweat. Don’t get fired, tho 🥁

[@r2d2punk]

love your videos man, do you have one on how to develop your weak hand

[@alexanderrichardson5929]

Great lessons!

[@rossrinkenbaugh4005]

Great handworkout man. Also the rest of the notes after the accents can be used to help practices ghosting

[@keres993]

You're the best, Rob! These videos are enlightening and the regularity with which you release them challenges me to stay on top of practice!

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

The regularity with which I release them also keeps them bills paid 😉 Thanks for watching, man 🙂👊🏽🇨🇦

[@dmanalang9037]

Thanks Uncle Rob! I love your channel!

[@borgullet3376]

In the words of Vinnie's t-shirt... Spoilt.. Another Banger Rob, Stay Blessed.

[@wikuslombard6373]

Thank you for sharing your skills as always Rob.

[@gentlegroove2]

Absolutely great this channel man. Thanks a lot!!

[@drumrollplease8046]

Great video and important concept.

[@klebermartins483]

awesome! I really enjoy it!, I am looking for a exercise of fingers, thanks a lot!

[@stevelinabery]

It's also fun to start with a 2-note group, but flam the last stroke of each group into the accent of the next group. Then you get alternating flams, then flam taps, then a flammed triplet, etc as you add strokes to the groupings. So you can develop clean flams in addition to the other benefits of this exercise.

[@ChineseSageSayings]

I love your channel .

[@DiegoDrums-b5f]

5:45

[@jcaristizabald]

Awesome, and beautiful kit!

[@andrewworrall4302]

I love your work

[@jrst7400]

Thanks! 🙏🏼

[@rhythmantic]

Thank you Rob, this is not easy to play those odd groupings against a click. I have long admired your video opening graphics. I wonder if you would be so kind as to give a tutorial on how you create those.

[@MayerEO]

This might be one of the harder exercises for me! Getting those 5's and 7's in will be a challenge. This is gonna be fun.

[@joelenrubick8655]

No did not keep up all. 5,7, off a bit but brain is learning. Your other videos are so helpful.

[@DuffDrum]

I'm a little behind on these great videos. But I'm catching up. Never realized how sloppy and out of shape my technique and playing was until I started using your videos as a practice routine. You also turned me into a KZ In Ear Monitor fan/user. Thanks for the awesome content Rob. You, sir are a monster drummer.

[@kpelt180]

Good way to learn the flying fingers technique. Get those blast beasts going!

[@peacegroove7854]

Great workout Rob! It´s so much more fun to do it with you, so thanks for the upload. Never been a fan of the pad (shame on me), but this feels like you´re my gym buddy lol! Keep it up!

[@waynehughes3639]

Thanks for saying that group of 4s and 8s are easier to do. I have difficulty staying on the 4-4 time with the other groupings.

[@tdrum21]

3s are good classic material for that Moeller action as well. When’s that Beatdown Brown workout video coming out 😜👌🏽🎶🥁

[@mikkokorhonen8335]

Thank you Rob. 👍

[@eastbaymauiboy]

I definitely struggled a little going from 4 and doing the 5's...and the same with the 7's, but I just followed you and kinda got it (with a little fumble here and there). It was all about trying to count off 5 and/or 7 (especially trying to stay inside the click). It was never about the speed though. 4, 6 and 8 we're relatively easy. I'd rather not skip fives and sevens if they're valuable. I'll keep it going and see if they stick. Good exercise though. Thanks!

[@mftc82]

I struggled with this too at 1st, but then I started to count the 5s as "1,2,1,2,3' and the 7s as '1,2,1,2,1,2,3' and found it more manageable than trying to count the whole way up. Its almost as if concentrating on counting the actual numbers throws you off the timing. Try it out, it may work for you too :)

[@eastbaymauiboy]

Matthew Devine That's a really good tip, I'll give it a try when I practice. Thanks a lot!

[@DoubleDowner]

EastBay MauiBoy it’s been forever and it never sticks ! 😭 Only when I play along I get it. On my own the 5s & 7s never stick

[@floydthebarber71]

My brain won't comply. How do you drummers do it and what's the point of having odd counting within an even click?

[@richgame2013]

...THE MAN...THE LEGEND

[@marklucier736]

Awesome and thank you for this !!! What is the practice pad you are using in this demonstration? Thank you in advance.

[@marlynbrando9506]

💚 this video is dope

[@MJTNick]

Love your channel, so much useful and easy to access information! Unfortunately, I’m having difficulties with finger technique. I have been trying to do this exercise for quite some time, but I still can’t get through since my left hand fingers don’t seem to get faster. How did you start learning finger technique? How did you improve your left hand? Btw, I’m playing matched grip.

[@minisurfbanana]

Damn another great lesson...you should start a drum academy!!!

[@willsgotrythm42]

That's a great exercise, I do something similar all the time. Now throw some flams in there!!!

[@danasmith8557]

I can tell the difference in my playing awesome !!!!!

[@coolied2865]

Hi Rob, I hope you will reply. I have arthritis in my 2nd finger on Left hand. It difficult to wrap finger (distal joint) around drum stick. Please tell me that 2nd finger does not have to curl all the way around stick in order to have great control. Thanks for your great listens.

[@markstephenson5247]

Hello Rob. Do you use heavy sticks or light sticks doing this. ??

[@MrDigimonas1]

Don't get the use of metronome for awkward groupings. For example on 5. It changes the position of accent. But what is the logic. Meaning it moves 16th notes and sometimes not on click signal. When you change the grouping? To land on 1 or what? What is the logic?

[@isaacroberts7752]

Any suggestions for drummers with short pinky fingers? It's hard to keep them on the stick.

[@rmrSpacemanRecords1490]

Hell yeah !!!

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

Yuuuuup 🤓👊🏽

[@gregorydolan247]

Hi Rob! Great stuff, but I noticed that your snare/practice pad height is way way way above your knees. Mine was always lower, barely above the knees. Whaddya think? I mean, you seem perfectly comfortable like that, but...what do you recommend? Thanks, -Greg

[@Mrjazzzery]

This one the next one DIBS!!!

[@stefancounts1391]

What kind of practice pad did you use in this vide?

[@meepmeep3874]

before: "They call them fingers, but I never see them fing" after: "Oh there they go"

[@mirumir775]

💜tnx

[@milanmaksimovic7495]

Another interesting way to do this is to do it only with your weak hand, accenting only the first stroke of every grouping... try it :))

[@spudmint]

Does your wrist still move a bit when you do this? I'm a total beginner with drums and I think I'm using my fingers but the wrist still moves a bit so not sure if I just think I'm using my fingers when I'm actually using my wrist.

[@williamsass9434]

I tend to use the word "sev" in place of seven when counting that particular grouping or 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 and also count the 8's as two groups of 4 (ie. 1 e & a 2 e & a or 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ) just to help with accuracy. What are your thoughts on this?

[@boblobgobstopper13214]

I’m not Rob and I’m nowhere near as good as Rob is but I see no problem with that. If it works for you, it doesn’t matter what others think about it

[@alphanumeric1529]

Beginner drummer here. Just started playing yesterday, was practicing with a metronome, but when I'd play the metronome would totally disappear, but if my timing fell out, I could hear the metronome again. Is it okay to practice like this, or should I totally blast the metronome so I always hear it? Thanks, drummers.

[@bear226cobalt]

Hey Rob, thanks again for another inspired workout. What drum machine metronome are you using?

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

I use an iOS app called Tempo

[@bear226cobalt]

Rob Brown Thanks for the reply! I had the tempo free app but just upgraded to this version. Your KZbin channel has been a big inspiration for me. You're not only a great teacher but you seem like an incredible person as well thank you very much.

[@kbaeve]

Really great exercise again man! I totally get your point about not dropping below 150-160bpm, but do you think that dropping a bit below could be useful if your not used to the odd groupings and want to learn those? Or do you suggest another exercise for that particular scenario?

[@mgd9151]

should i do this with heavy sticks? I am new to drumming and have a set of 2's and 4's(sticks). i also have pretty long fingers. I'm not looking for easy, i want to do what is best. Thanks in advance. Great video as always!

[@RobBeatdownBrown]

As long as your form is tight, you can go a size or two heavier if you want. Otherwise the extra weight would be pointless and counterproductive. Much like loading up a barbell to squat heavy without making sure you can perform a proper squat first.

[@mattguzda1427]

Shinobi-gun Kinobe don't do heavy sticks. Play with the sticks you play with. Heavy sticks are a good idea once you've mastered the exercises but until then just play with whatever size stick you're comfortable with. Cheers and domo ari gato. The exercise is enough to practice without heavy sticks .

[@TheCommonSenseExpert]

What the bpms of the metronome

[@jgorhan]

Old comment I know, but he says later in the video that it was at 180 bpm for anyone else who may be looking.

[@wagnerswaggn3r661]

Is it a good thing for your wrists to get sore After excessive practicing?

[@andrewjones9417]

More pinky for the people!

[@mapquest681]

Rob! Please Help! My right hand I can do this all day. My left hand fingers cant seem to find the fulcrum like my right hand. Any suggestions?

[@michalhak2342]

I have had the same problem. I've started playing every day and practise every day. It takes a lot of time, but my left is much better now ;-)

[@quatzu]

I do not understand when and why to use the middle-finger fulcrum, rather than the first.

[@pharcydebug]

damn this is hard!

[@josteinv.jordet257]

How big is that kick?

[@CooperDrums]

Probably a 22”. I think he has a video doing a tour of his kit.

[@gothic8]

Ron my left hand won't keep up help!!!!!!!