FINGERDRUMMING METHOD with hand position techniques *(ft. the Yamaha FGDP)

[@Breakrite]

This comment is not supposed to sound weird, but there’s no other way to say it. You have incredibly talented fingers. Both on the guitar and on the tap drummer.

[@FusionFingerDrum]

That was normal 😅

[@RegularBeico]

It's refreshing to see someone take this instrument at face value (especially when you get results like these), I've found it a bit tiring to see some influencers in the niche dismiss the FGDP due to the non-grid layout. This is a new thing, and I'm personally very excited to see more like it. And amazing playing, of course, you're an inspiration!

[@FusionFingerDrum]

The layout is very well designed, in my opinion, some actual thought went into it rather than it just being a generic grid that you could assign samples to or something... I think a lot of people that do finger drumming or just doing music production, they're not really trying to play the instrument in any other way than using it like a loop to drum machine

[@sogehtdasnicht]

Great demonstration! I ordered an FGDP-50 for my child who is now only able to play the normal drum set to a limited extent due to a chronic illness.

[@FusionFingerDrum]

That sounds like a suitable substitution.... Anyway, get well soon

[@ricopaxton]

Please tell me, Yamaha paid you dearly! And if so, ask for extra! You are the hottest seller of gear, period! And I mean this businesswise, in case anybody starts to choke. Your talent is beyond money or any of the usual. 🤘

[@FusionFingerDrum]

Nope, not sponsored

[@michaelcreel106]

@@FusionFingerDrum Well, I bought a Squier tele, an AKAI drum pad, and a Boss GT-1 as a GP-10 surrogate, all down to you. Gear makers, are you out there?

[@klacustoms]

Thank you in sharing this video! One thing I hated about older drum machines or the pads is that you have to do all the programming of all of the drum notes. If you were to do it manually on the fly, the pads would sometimes miss registering on hitting the beat due to the lack of velocity or sensitivity to the pad. This finger drum machine looks functional and organic naturally with sensitivity on the pads intact. This instrument looks like something I've been missing in all my years of musicianship! The way how I'll approach it will be differently from how your showing on the video. When ever I hear music playing, be it others or my own music, my hand is tapping the closed high hat or ride cymbal and the snare to the beat of the song. That's what I'll do first once I get my hands on one of these. I'll start out and record one track with me playing just the closed high hat or ride cymbal and snare like I naturally do when my hand is tapping to a beat of a song. Then I'll record a second track with just the ghost notes on snare. Third track would be the bass drum. Fourth track would be for toms and finally a fifth track to rerecord high hat and ride cymbals from the first track for a little more finesse. Soon as I get done with my latest project, I'm getting one of these machines. Your video has sold me on this product! Yamaha should be paying you!

[@FusionFingerDrum]

It is pretty good

[@paulauksztulewicz7381]

Better than Superior Drummer, that's for sure!

[@achim709]

Agreed, if you have slender female fingers. But if you have craftsman's shovels like mine, then you don't need to try to play triplets on the small hi-hat pads on the 50. A pair of sticks is worth its weight in gold.

[@FusionFingerDrum]

Shovels. 👋😂... However it gets done, whatever works for the individual, I say... I obviously like listening to acoustic drummers quite a bit....

[@noisebrick9248]

Yes, thank you! I actually ended up getting this after seeing you vouch for it, I fell in love with it the moment I got it. As a guitarist who has no space for a drum kit, and as much as I love my sampler/sequencers/drum machines, it's not the same, this was a proper game changer. I'll go through this lesson now :)

[@picksalot1]

Outstanding finger drumming tutorial and demo. I used to play real drums before moving to guitar. The Yamaha FGDP ergonomic layout looks to have solved the lack of stick bounce feel by mirroring the pads for both hands - Smart design. I've tried pads with a uniform grid layout, and found them totally unintuitive and no fun to play. The Yamaha FGDP-50 looks like it might be worth the extra $100 just to make navigating the menus easier. Your prowess on the guitar is alive and well on the finger drums. Impressive! 😎

[@FusionFingerDrum]

Yeah, I'll probably pick up the fgdp50 at some point too. Although, I like the compact size of the 30....

[@picksalot1]

@@FusionFingerDrum In doing research on the Specs, everything was looking good until I saw this Sample Format: "WAV, AIFF (44.1 kHz, 16-bit, mono/stereo)." Wish it had an option for 48kHz, 24-bit. 😥

[@MrSomchiman]

wowwwwwwww

[@paulauksztulewicz4803]

Subscribed!

[@pepstriebeck1163]

The guys at DRUMEO should invite you Tory 😊 Amazing as always.

[@Raggo12345]

Everybody else do Qwerty, Tory does Steno... Fantastic technique!!!!

[@drorlazar]

Amazing!! thanks this is the thing that Yamaha is missing, a real artist to layout his approach to this layout and showcase how to use it like it should. can you go over you're modification and favorite kits for the FGDP30?

[@lemonhscott7667]

Okay I want to learn how to do this because this is the best I’ve seen on the fgdp layout wow!

[@paulussantosociwidjaja4781]

Well, I used to do it on my keyboard - but, now you are sharing a better idea to play drums using our fingers. Hoping the long pad can be made positional pad sensitive like the Roland R70 by Yamaha. Cheers!

[@JeremyAndersonBoise]

Oh my lord, how are you this good?

[@FusionFingerDrum]

Practice

[@JeremyAndersonBoise]

@@FusionFingerDrum 😎😎😎

[@bobluthier3031]

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[@leagueadmin5018]

Holy shit! Thank you algorithm for recommending this channel. Subbed! 🤣

[@FusionFingerDrum]

👋☺️👍

[@chascoppard]

Been waiting for a tutorial like this! Thanks

[@FusionFingerDrum]

☺️👍

[@trinacria1956]

Thank you so very much. That is very helpful! Now I can get a good start on my Yamaha FDGP- 30.

[@hakanl135]

Fantastic tutorial & amazing playing Tory , i cant believe how good it sounds , i really like the layout on this device its much better than the other drum machines with their linear layouts…

[@FusionFingerDrum]

I agree

[@TheQuestforGroove]

Hey Tory, this super interesting stuff, thanks for sharing! I've been playing the FGDP units since last October and they really influenced my playing style (finger rolls, which were harder to do on other devices which you mention as well I think) as well as my practicing (with the easy access, just turn it on and play). Very curious to see how all of this develops. Rock on! 🙂

[@FusionFingerDrum]

Hey! Thanks for chiming in, love your channel! ... As for the sensitivity, I think I really bang the hell out of the things with my fingers in general, lol, I probably play a bit too hard, to be honest.....

[@fabianfeld6731]

Hi Tory and thanks for all your videos an tutorials, very useful. I found this new device just a few days ago and I´m evaluating if buy it or not. I can't say why, but I feel that this is the first step in the instrument and that if FGDP is commercially successful, surely there will be a second version that incorporates everything that the users are suggesting (feedback)... Maybe it is my intuition, but I have a feeling that this instrument needs to be improved in some functionalities. I would like to know your opinion since you play it every day. Also, I was thinking and wanted to ask you, why did you choose this model and not the FGDP-50? Thank you very much again and greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[@FusionFingerDrum]

Most likely. It's kind of niche TBH

[@jimbeaux4988]

Fantastic! Both this and your guitar stuff. I have followed David for years . You are one of the best finger drummers Ive seen. I use an akai pad, but this looks really interesting.

[@FusionFingerDrum]

Thanks, finger drumming is one of my favorite things to do, especially when I'm just kind of unwinding, maybe after practicing guitar all day or something I'll just play some drums for the next day or two... I like it also kind of gives you a different set of ideas that kind of cross-pollinates your compositional concepts and writing... I'm actually thinking of releasing just a drumming album, something kind of similar to maybe what Nate Smith has done, although I might use different kits and even write some, sort of late 90s drum instructional video type tunes... Not really anything that showcases guitar playing for solos, but you know it's just really kind of interesting piece to drum on, that kind of thing... Definitely going to probably wait until this channel gets bigger before I jump into that though

[@billydeewilliams9104]

I love you Tory! 🥰

[@PublicRadioSimulator]

Incredible!

[@jonnybeck6723]

A couple of things I was wonderin': Is there a provision for an additional foot control Is the device velocity sensitive and Do you ever swing with it (?) (and thanx in advance)

[@FusionFingerDrum]

No foot control. Velocity yes. Swing..... did you watch the video entirely or anything else on my channel?

[@jonnybeck6723]

@@FusionFingerDrum I found you with your tapping guitar which profoundly blew me away... I don't tap and I write my drum stuff on a sample piano roll sequencer... ...but that don't stop me from digging you, girl... most inspiring/entertaining I've seen in a while Thanx Do you ever gig in L.A.?

[@smileystrings6384]

Hi

[@pongmaster123]

its all nothing without DYNAMICS, but unfortunately thats the hardest to get. good luck!!

[@clarkbowler157]

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