Anika Nilles Teaches Push Pull Kick Drum Technique | Sound Advice

[@believeinittobe]

My drum teacher thankfully taught me this technique back in the late 80s and it's still the one that I use most often. A BEGINNER TIP: Start with your heel up and the beater against the head. Drop your heel down slowly to relieve pressure from the ball of your foot to the heel and feel the beater pull back. Imagine your foot as a rocker on an old rocking chair and repeat the motions, rocking your foot back into the starting position with heel up and beater against the head. YOUR FOOT NEVER LOSES CONTACT WITH THE FOOTBOARD.

[@anykmusic]

🙌🏼🙌🏼 great tip!

[@AnKlMa]

This explanation made all the difference! Thanks a lot!

[@j.jonhutson7718]

Thank you!

[@emergentform1188]

Brilliant, love it. I've been working on this exact technique for a few months now (learned from another teacher on youtube) and it's great. Solved so many issues I was having. Doubles or however many strokes you need. Harder than it looks for sure but absolutely killer. Anika is legend and we should all be grateful for her sharing this gem with us 💛

[@ricklord7144]

Because of you, I've changed a lot of my technique. You are an inspiration, without doubt! This heel toe technique on the kick is proving to be a God send! A while back I even reversed my number one and two toms due to you! I'll never go back! Thanks for all you bring to the craft!!! You rock!!!

[@jeoffjungbauer8767]

I love it! I was actually walking this morning and thinking about how I need to work on my bass drum technique. I was even thinking about playing four strokes in a row, and wondering how would be a good way to practice this. How serendipitous that I saw this video just shortly afterward!!! Thank you Anika for the wonderful lesson!!!

[@penny.santiago]

It's like a reversed heel toe and it is super useful! I'm currently working on developing both direction, and after 8 months of practice i can do them at 160 bpm with almost no efforts for a minute straight. It's a long path to gain high velocity but your drumming will have huge benefits from this, especially in balance, power, precision and....of course for great doubles! If you practice both direction after a while try jim chapin section 1 with the feet, you'll be surprised :)

[@writetovagelis1975]

exactly.

[@raymeefolktales8376]

Thank you for showing us this technique much love from South Africa

[@michaelevans9881]

You make a wonderful practice of teaching

[@jessepender5239]

That beat at the end is tight!

[@sonoftherepublic9792]

Nice technique! Thanks much for sharing.

[@icadrums]

Wow! 🔥 Thanks for sharing Anika!! 🤩

[@keegster1882]

Very neat. I accidentally taught myself the "slide" technique when I first started drumming. Found out a couple of years later is was an actual technique drummers used. I've honed it over the years to where it is effective and easy to use. This technique looks really cool, though. I've seen people use one called the "heel-toe" technique. I gave that a try and managed to get the idea how to use it but, it's not mastered at all. I'll definitely work on this "push-pull" technique. Thank you for sharing. I think techniques are great to break down and learn.

[@codersexpo1580]

Thank you for breaking this down for us Anika. Always a joy to watch you at your craft. Loving "For a Colorful Soul" too!!

[@bebobalula]

Nice to see that Anika's right foot has healed and is working fine. It's amazing, that she was able to quickly learn and do all the bass drum work with her left foot in the first couple of weeks during the summer tour with Beck 🎵🌻🎶

[@2visiondigital]

Do you think she used a double bass pedal ? But then what about the hi hat ?

[@Sound-Lord]

She's the miracle.

[@krusher74]

I think more a product of hours of high quality practice.

[@felipebispo642]

Sua técnica é incrível uma execução perfeita

[@bateriaeletronica]

Brilliant this drummer. Thanks for the tip. I'll practice.

[@peraruor]

That was absolutely awesome Anika! Hope one day I could mastered like you!

[@richardstardust2355]

Also nice to see she is using the old Tama imperial Star snaredrum, ( back from the 80's) it still sounds great.

[@jamesgoetz6100]

Definitely gonna work on this!

[@drumdad1242]

Fantastic explanation. Really like her playing.

[@gordie4059]

Inverted ‘heel/toe’ method. Sweet! Amazing what can be done with a single bass pedal 👍🏻

[@KevinZ2269]

WOW ! Very Cool Thank you Anika!

[@aaronsparks9012]

It's like the Sandford Mueller technique for you feet method nice job well explained Anika!!🤗

[@tkorte101]

Some sweet grooves! Nice lesson, thanks!

[@krusher74]

This seem to be toe/heel, heel/toe and heel up in combination. Three techniques to learn and combine. The first 4 stroke at the start seem to be just two toe/heel double combined.

[@vini.colzar]

Thanks for share this!

[@johnrobinson8323]

Thanks for the awesome lesson Anika! 🥁❤️

[@chemaferrer.amateurdrummer3963]

Really good! And very interesting. Thank you.

[@bjs1130]

Great Stuff Anika.!!.....Nice to see your big toe is healed! Godspeed!

[@hieronymus1288]

She's a great player!

[@KazMogi]

Can't wait to try this technique!

[@sammydrumzz319]

Awesome 🔥🔥🙌🏼

[@homchickn]

Saw you with beck this week. You are tight! You flow over your kit with precision.

[@xthek3n038]

very nice! looks a lot like a sort of inverted heel-toe to me

[@TheHouseofKushTV]

My favorite part of this vid was slowing it down to 0.25x and watching the waves of energy ripple thru her pantlegs, up from the cuff to knee after her leg & foot dropped all the way down and stopped. It's beautiful, and hypnotic.

[@zmongi1]

Such a great vid!

[@Kyp031]

I been applying this to single foot blast beats in my metal project. I dont trigger and i ferl this keeps the power of the strokes. great lesson!

[@nickysumigar]

The best👍

[@vewilli]

Very cool! 👍🏻

[@rondeangelis7384]

This is exactly how steve gadd performs he kick motions. 👌nice job Anika 👏👏👍

[@remygaron8311]

Nailed it thanks

[@do8671]

What a great technique from an amazing artist! Question… noticed that Anika is using Powerglide, did anyone hear ever use the Rolling glide, and what do you think of it? Is there really a big difference between the two?

[@odairsouza8938]

Toca muito 👏👏

[@trevbeats77]

Super control....x

[@emiliogarcia5343]

This amazing....I also think Zack Hill has some amazing foot technique...but he doesn't explain how he does it. Thank you Anika for making this video

[@gameplayti2909]

Nice.

[@Ben-tr]

That's where my problem is ,with the base drum pedal ..your foot looks so relaxed while playing it

[@GunnarLoeb]

I'm not a drummer but was impressed by this

[@abdulrozak1495]

i like this

[@claudiabussone5742]

thank you absoutley phenomenol

[@jonthibault5509]

Awesome.

[@nicoladamicodrummer]

Only for information, the name of this technique is "costant release", Freddie Gruber's school. Very cool!

[@Re5M4n]

Great lesson! I keep trying this since 20 years. But it's not really working with shoesize 13.5, maybe because the pedal is not long enough 😢

[@dannypercussionman]

Cool!👍🥁

[@tosinkingfishercheeseburge8901]

She really good drummer

[@dwayneaguiar1148]

Wow I love it thats a bad azz grove.

[@johngrobson4899]

Awesome 💎👏💎🥁💎🥁 6:34

[@2romes945]

Love you. You are a unique drummer as well as a inside and outside beauty.

[@gadymarcus5297]

magnifica.

[@Stixxyyyy]

I have the same shoes!

[@tonipuolanne9999]

Can you do this with heel-toe?

[@sanandrea490]

Why do you have to start the opposite ( flat foot to toe ? ) if you have 3 or 5 strokes in a row ? 😮 it looks one could just do tip - flat foot - tip without any problem though 🤔 Is it when you start them on the 2sd or 4th sixteenth notes ?

[@maeu59]

What about spring tension?

[@markclarke6908]

Lol. I just tried it. 😪 you made it look so easy. Yet here I am, looking like its my first day using my foot. 🙃 not to mention in a bout two minutes my leg started to ache. I'll get to that later. Such an easy looking motion and i still struggle. 😆

[@ZERODIS0]

i use this for up tempo blast beats

[@DrumsVSTheWorld]

what kind of pedal is she using?

[@hendrickroy7481]

Your snare seems to be vintage... what is it?

[@Ranger1216]

Thanks….it seems the Heel, ball of foot and toes work in sequence….just have to get used to the “feel” of the pedal….

[@marjoriecureg6952]

informative..

[@alexmanojmathews]

Hi Anika. I guess the track ' Walk this way ' by Aerosmith is a good example of using 3's or any Hip Hop track

[@BillyGates1721]

sounds great & groovy huh ? why does so less foot-movement create so many fast hits?? very good demonstration and explanation

[@hpgorgner4942]

Hallo Anika, tolles Video (leider in englisch😢) andere Frage gibt es ein Video indem du dein Drumset erklärst so zu sagen ein Drum Rounddown fände ich mal ganz interessant. Ansonsten wünsche ich dir weiterhin viel Erfolg und Gesundheit. Hau rein Liebe Grüße, HP 🥁

[@tkorte101]

I'd like to see a collaboration between yourself and King Glyk. That'd be a great rhythm section.

[@Ben-tr]

👍

[@jcdrums2798]

cela a l'air tellement facile avec toi!...

[@thealternativevlog]

I once used a pedal that would come back and slap the top of my foot. It caused a huge bruise. :(

[@larrytemp3063]

I BELIEVE LARNELL LEWIS HAS A VERY SIMILAR TECHNIQUE THAT HE DESCRIBES ON A DRUMEO VIDEO CLIP IT'S CALLED "LIGHTNING FAST SINGLE KICK-LARNELL LEWIS".

[@laiftaim]

If she uses a BD lift, the tone of the kick will be better, and the higher the BD, the better for setup.

[@michaelevans9881]

That last groove would sound cool on the tom-tom..advanced drummer tom,bass,snare and hi-hat..da da da da da daaaah...the ride cymbal being the daaaaahhh..so basically it's a drum roll or fill..another example is starting with a bass drum cymbal combo to begin the fill and ending in the same combo..double the fill going from same combo above and doing it twice, forward and backwards..

[@michaelevans9881]

Example Genghis Khan Iron Maiden

[@jonhattanrai]

I accidentally discovered this way of playing. But it doesn't work for me, because I'm a hard hitter and this doesn't provide enough power for me. Probably I need to develop more.

[@jonathamartins5109]

Constant release technique.

[@impulseproman]

that heel and toe

[@badhabits25]

From my foot I guess I would need a longer pedal board

[@theNitefly]

huh. so it's like toe-heal instead of heal-toe.

[@michaelevans9881]

Speed up and slow down by exploring and exercising..

[@marfle1984]

Yeah! Nice shoes! And now I am gonna watch some Fleshgod Apocalypse Drumming....................

[@jimmy2stix]

Wow. In my memory, Anika is a first Famous Drummer/Teacher in KZbin, who not called this technique "heel toe" ( 'cause it's not a "heel toe", you fools! 🤦😃) . Probobly , more correct name of this technique - "Foot Up Down" or "Foot Down Up" ( depends on where the drummer starts first striking motion ) .

[@ronaldluning4010]

Funky bass groove, porcaro would be jealous. Now the other foot? This is an older video, you must be along the way already.

[@SOAD0219]

This is heel-toe technique, isn't it?

[@drumfanatik316]

Heel toe is a little different from this. Hard to explain. But if you check out Drumeos video of the heel toe, you’ll see what I mean. As someone else mentioned, I believe this technique is called constant release? Steve Smith has a pretty good video on here explaining how he does it.

[@peevee605]

Like Jeff Porcaro.

[@codersexpo1580]

Did Jeff do it like this too?

[@peevee605]

@@codersexpo1580 check out 9:10 mark here. He used to slide the pedal. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n36veIN6YtOsipY

[@BlueThunderFan99]

@@codersexpo1580 I think in his instructional video he did a slide technique...but he may have done this too.

[@Infilaindianaperdue]

Good technique... Santa Claus...

[@Tateisadrummachine]

Slide technique gang forever lmao

[@einarabelc5]

Get a round cam

[@millmaxy]

abso(fucking)lutely

[@Jester_jester415]

Four in a row? 17 girls in a row. Anyone? I’m so sorry😆if seriously this is a good technique

[@williammorgan5320]

Thanks Anika. I think any player worth his/her salt would know the double hit and the bouncy/slam foot technique. A double to the double is a challenge for those with weak calf muscles. The sound is great, if you can keep it consistent. Any variation and you sound like a wounded toad. Anika always sounds as if she has three hands anyway. And, she should marry me.

[@WES_5150]

She had me with her voice, but then the Vans...

[@Thomlistentoslayer]

🙄🙄🙄with all due respect Jojo Mayer explained this in the 90's in a more articulate way hahahaha

[@anykmusic]

His technique is a bit different… that’s all I’ll add to your comment.. with all respect

[@seanlevoy9446]

Plenty of other examples. Not going to watch.

[@zoeydee7168]

Notice the beater length is set very long, the large beater also acts as a counter weight with rebound and the spring tension looks some what tight

[@miked5487]

I find adding beater weights helps too

[@eDrumsInANutshell]

That's what I had in mind. So spring tension matters or let's say, beater length, beater weight, drum head tension. I mean there are drummers I ask about spring tension and the answer was: I don't care. But for more advanced foot techniques these are definitely important parameters.