Even Out Your Hands - Drum Lesson

If you want to even out your hands (speed, power, clarity, dynamics), then this simple practice pad exercise will absolutely help. It also sounds great over different foot ostinatos like the samba, tumbao, and baiao. Practice, be patient with yourself, and above all else... HAVE FUN! - Mike Johnston
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[@joldent5333]

Love your energy Mike. Hasn’t changed one bit over the years mate.

[@greenenoiseaudio]

Mike I want the pad. No, I need the pad! Release it brother hahaha

[@PalashBackup]

That hand motion is soooo clean. Even at 120 bpm, it was clean like it was sanitized. Gonna go and try this on my inferior, single-sided, one surface practice pad :P

[@ignacioperezdelcastillo3182]

Gracias

[@billykohler9153]

TY Mr. Mike 😎

[@mikeslessons]

You are very welcome my friend!

[@theberealbewellproject3732]

Love this. You make it look so easy.

[@danytalksmusic]

it's so refreshing to see you get challenged by one of these exercises! good to know there's always something to work on

[@cleire6127]

Great content man 🎉 luv ya ❤

[@fedrickarmanto1040]

Very Nice Vocabulary ❤

[@santiagoberrio5620]

thanks mr Johnston 😊

[@simonnathan2065]

Awesome! Definitely gonna give this one a try.

[@carlarena7951]

Hey Mike. Another great exercise!! I also tried doing the second measure as... 3-3-3-3-4 to alternate hands. Thanks!

[@SafeInstinct]

As always, you contribute so much value - hope that one day you will hold a Drumcamp in Denmark

[@tillgerke9481]

Going through all of these videos, as I fight the jet lag ;) Awesome video, bro!

[@AaronHunter]

Excellent exercise, thanks! (And the Gadson beat advice is great as well!)

[@mikeslessons]

Happy to help!

[@drumsrlife71418]

Awesome mike thank you.

[@thelostdog]

Sick little trick, gonna build some dope fills

[@samgierasimczuk8663]

I love the 332323 feel! I always defaulted to 332332. Thank you so much for all your efforts to share and help all of us grow ❤

[@DerekSoDrumming]

then can practice 3-2-3 > 3-3-2 / 3-3-2 > 2-3-3 / 2-3-3 > 3-3-2 etc.

[@TakoNekko]

Thank you so much Mike! I am left handed playing open handed and I run into situations trying to lead with my right. I'm going to practice this lesson! Oh, and I live just down the freeway from you in Elk Grove. Cheers! ;)

[@ZachBratland]

Yes❗️🥁🔥

[@bugman3164]

Looking forward to working on this sticking... especially when I can buy a certain new practice pad... ;-)

[@jimdrummer816]

You flipped that pad so fast I didn't even see it!! 😅 Great teaching, as usual.

[@seanpeel2194]

I in fact shall be shedding this, as I could not play it up to speed!

[@BatManWayneCorp]

How does this channel have

[@mikeslessons]

More like... how fortunate am I that almost 250 thousand people care to watch and listen to me teach drums? Freaking AMAZING!

[@FredericMaraval]

Bonjour from France ! Your exercise is really really cool ! I am in holidays and i am doing pad everyday with pleasure ! Thapnk you ! Could you tell me why you do not follow the metronome on the 3 flam and the 2 flam, as you do it on each 4 flam , please ? Thank you so much for your work, and all your videos.

[@chudyy96]

Need to try this exercise💪🏻 when the pad is coming out?🔥

[@ch33ze0g]

Hey Mike! Love the videos! Could you let me know what practice pad that is?

[@sabahoudini]

That pad looks awesome, where can I get it?

[@mikeslessons]

So glad you like it. We just finished the prototyping phase. I'll post like a madman on here once it's officially available :)

[@sabahoudini]

@@mikeslessons Makes me want to practice :D

[@탈룰라-i5m]

땡큐

[@emilde12]

When is your new pad going to be available?

[@mikeslessons]

The goal is to have it to market in time for Christmas :)

[@emilde12]

@@mikeslessonsok I’ll be looking for it. Thanks

[@ben_curry]

Hey Mike, I love your channel! I've heard different answers to this question but I figured I'd ask you. Do thin cymbals crack easier, or do heavier cymbals crack easier?

[@mikeslessons]

Hey Ben, that's a great question. The answer isn't in the cymbal as much as it's in the drummer. If a heavy drummer with great technique is playing then the thin cymbals will last longer as far as cracks go because the flex a bit more. That being said, they might tend to bend/warp. So they don't crack as easy, but they can get a tad disfiquerd. The thick cymbals rarely get bent, but they just give into the abuse and crack. If the drummer plays super hand and has poor technique, then my advice is to get a sh*t ton of used Sabian B8's because your gonna be going through them like tinfoil anyway, lol. The lesson here is swipe the cymbal and it will last MUCH longer! Hope that helps.

[@ben_curry]

@@mikeslessons Thanks Mike for the help. I've been working on swiping the cymbals instead of chopping at them because I know I am a heavy drummer.

[@GoofballDyl]

awesome man, what pad is that???

[@danalnajes]

Its called the Balance pad

[@JoshPainterDrums]

❤ Edit: Five+ words for the algorithm! 😊

[@mikeslessons]

Unfortunately the algorhythm doesn't count comment under 4 words, but I appreciate the effort since boring pad videos like this never do well, LOL. That being said, all good in your world old friend?

[@JoshPainterDrums]

@@mikeslessons All good man! Still drumming away! And now I know to do at least five words moving forward 😆

[@jjb1149]

What practice pad is that?

[@mikeslessons]

It's called the Balance Pad by Aquarian. It comes out towards the end of the year :)

[@krusher74]

@@mikeslessons I cant belive its taken so long for a pad like that to come out, I have an eveans and a zildjian reflex to get that. Pads are so over priced is a cnc piece of MDF with ruber on one side and neoprene rubber on the other, super easy to make in a factory, should be $50 max.

[@chendachim8117]

Start brushing your teeth with your left hand, allow it to take the lead on every day things you do. And of course start with slow song and so on...

[@c3N3q]

Have you tried doing pushups on your fingers? 👍👍👍

[@ИванЧекмарев-й7й]

Thanks a lot! The only thing that disappoints me there is no “shugadaboop”(

[@mikeslessons]

@@ИванЧекмарев-й7й I definitely owe you a shigadaboop in the next video :)

[@BatManWayneCorp]

Shugadawhatnow?

[@stephanmarcouxdrums4877]

Well I should have keep my first account from 2008, it seem that your most popular video with 1.7 millions views goes back to 17 years ago, but the 247k subscribers is something almost impossible to reach for any drummer out there. Even legendary drummer like Weckl doesn't have that number, he is at 120k subscribers. Which is very hard to understand in my perspective.