How to play Djent Drums!

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🎶 Happy djenting!!
#djent #progressivemetal #drumlessons

[@drumbastic6sic6]

The ability to boil down such complex concepts into something this easily digestible is the sign of a master of their craft. Great work Mike 🖤

[@NunSuperior]

Finally those Calculus classes will pay off.

[@LoganCovers91]

"You can put a polymeter inside a polymeter so you can djent while you djent"

[@perpetualgrimace]

Djent without polymeter is icing without the cake. Thanks for breaking the cool part down for people. ✌

[@samerkamal3328]

the djent legend himself

[@agentape8591]

Stand back, I'm about to djent!

[@maxalaintwo3578]

I'm gonna djeeeeent. I'm djeeeentiiiing aaaaah

[@oshikiri999]

Dude I'm honestly super hyped for this. You've been my favorite drummer since Gnosis and to catch some lessons from you is reason enough for me to buy a kit and give a it a go!

[@drewbairdummel]

I am so glad that KZbin recommended this video. Nice work!

[@procrasti-nation9517]

yup, same here

[@oshikiri999]

You gave off straight Guthrie Goven energy bro. Like you know what tf you're talking about

[@sterlingpratt4901]

Compound polymeter as pimp my ride is pure genius.

[@spiralweaver7740]

This is a great lesson! I have often wondered how to program these types of rhythms as I don't play drums myself, and now they make a lot more sense

[@ParthGChannel]

Each of those examples were played with such groove Mike! Great to see you're doing well :D

[@AustinJSchaeffer]

I'm not a drummer but I do write music and as a result have to write/program the drums and this was a very helpful video! I had already known somewhat about the counting and just letting that run over a 4/4 bar but it always felt like that was cheating (compared to I guess just, "feeling" it) and so it's reassuring to know that it is entirely okay to construct rhythm patterns in that way.

[@Spearced]

Fantastic video Mike. Clearly explained and inspiring even for a non-drummer, plus the editing is on point! Great stuff.

[@demarcussumter636]

Holy shit I actually found your KZbin. I JUST found Monuments 2 months ago and you guys ARE AMAZING!!!

[@drumminfuckedup]

This is brilliant!

[@BruceBalensiefer]

Yo dawg, I heard you like polymeters in your polymeters.

[@Hadiplaysmusic]

Great video, man!

[@user-tt7tg4nq7p]

Almost all of Periphery riffs build upon this principle 😅

[@st00bz]

What a great introduction to djent drums!! Can highly recommend the Malyan Drum Academy as well!!

[@banks4343]

Enjoyed talking about this concept with you in Lincoln, NE! Really enjoyed your excitement and passion for drumming!

[@backwardclocksound]

I f**king love you dude. Brilliant.

[@gSWG3R]

Such a djentleman for sharing your wisdom.

[@neerazsharma6]

I've been asked to produce djent by a client..... so Im here

[@rammstein1985234]

Thank you for this. I really enjoy watching you play. One of my favorites is your videos with playing The Algorithm songs.

[@eliezergunoroca4862]

thank you sir ❤️

[@trolling2701]

AWESOME

[@dromerboi]

I am signing in! ❤

[@goindiebro]

Aces, this makes so much sense! Thanks for doing this, would love to see more video lessons in this vein.

[@MalyanDrum]

Thanks so much Seth! For a comprehensive development on this, please check out my lesson on the subject here: malyandrum.academy/p/developing-polymetric-confidence-1 The beginning of the lesson is a free preview, and there's a 7 day free trial available to see if it's a good fit! I hope you enjoy :)

[@nixneato]

Got to level 3 --> subscribed :)

[@erickomight6417]

Finally! 🤘💫

[@KeshavDhar]

Love you Mikeyy ♥️🤘🏾

[@amateurpanda92]

Mind = blown.

[@massivelegend9172]

Lost me in the first minute 😂 but you left me feeling inspired to eventually make sense of it all! As a new student to drumming and someone with primary school level music theory knowledge, would you have any recommendations for virtual lessons or a teach yourself style of lessons? And any recommendations on electronic drum kits for a beginner? Thanks in advance, huge fan, keep making those dope fills!

[@MalyanDrum]

Hey! Thanks so much for the comment I'm so glad you felt inspired from it! It's my goal to create lessons for entry level up to advanced skills with this particular style in mind, but for now it's a work in progress! For now, many of these skills can be learned really efficiently through online learning! Have you checked out Drumeo or Mikeslessons.com before?? All the best!

[@MemoROFL]

Loved this vid Mike, been jamming out to your GGD pack the past week!

[@MalyanDrum]

Thanks so much for getting it! Which grooves are you digging the most??

[@MemoROFL]

@@MalyanDrum Tonight Song 08's the jam, but loving pretty much all of them. 06, 11, 13 and 15 have been favorites. Saw you guys when you came through NYC in August, great show 🥳

[@Prog4Prog]

Gent while you djent 🎩

[@procrasti-nation9517]

Wow, that was super helpfull!!! So basicly the trick is some kind of "shuffled" 16th triplets on the base drum? 😅 Thx, I was desperatly looking for this specific micro-division, though trying to use polyrythms while programming, I could never get the kick to sound right... I am going to program this patterns for further studies 😁

[@WforWrath]

he says "this is where you tend ot get lost" halfway through the video. not knowing ive been lost this whole time,

[@MalyanDrum]

It's always challenging making content that's interesting for a broad range of skill levelled musicians. I'm always working on developing new methods and pathways to help people get this kind of process going! I have a theory booster course in the works for MalyanDrum Academy which should help people out a bit, although there's already lots of resources out there! Let me know what does & doesn't make sense and I'll try and help :)

[@WforWrath]

@@MalyanDrum hey its cool i just bought beat scholar and thats how i came across your content. I do really want to know this stuff and not rely on beat scholar so I'm going out of my way to learn the theory as i learn the plug in. I will be watching your videos multiple times until i get it. great stuff and thank you!

[@MalyanDrum]

@@WforWrath that's really cool! I'm using it as a fast writing and committing tool on the road, I'm really enjoying building presets for Beat Scholar and making lots of fun note grouping experiments. Have you seen my full preset tutorial video for Beat Scholar?

[@WforWrath]

@@MalyanDrum not yet! i'll watch! i watched Composing Prog Metal & Djent with Beat Scholar | Mike Malyan (Monuments) and then this video we're commenting on, then i started jamming xD

[@therileyobrien]

🤯

[@nenashevyours8900]

такой контент определенно заслуживает продвижения)

[@catsandwhich7493]

if it would only be this simple🥲

[@michaeljudedrums]

Extremely well made & informative! Mike, is that a thin sand crash on your right?

[@MalyanDrum]

It's a 20" byzance vintage crash :D The sand crashes are variants on the vintage series. From left to right the crashes are 16" vintage, 18" sand crash, 20" vintage

[@Apricotick]

hi wuja nice video

[@MalyanDrum]

Dzieki

[@maxalaintwo3578]

All fun and games until Tesseract throws the backbeat and the 4/4 enclosure away. Then we get into überdjent

[@AngelEncarmine]

No idea what's going on but it's cool, so comments for the god of comments!

[@HronisArva]

👀👀👀

[@Daruma_Studio]

Video starts at 1:30

[@ReductioAdAbsurdum1]

That was helpful. I'm trying to sequence this in a synth and that 3-3-4-3-4 was helpful. Thanks!

[@adrianvelante8014]

Does this still work when you're programming drums instead of playing them?

[@MalyanDrum]

Yes, it’s no different to understand the mechanisms here for performance or programming. You can also use tools like Beat Scholar to handle the displacements for you, check out my preset pack tutorial video on mine or their channel to see more about that!

[@adrianvelante8014]

@@MalyanDrum thanks. I'll go do that.

[@coldmoonlight6361]

Not the type of video I expected to see from you, but boy am I here for it. To any veterans who happen to stop by here, thank you for your service.

[@MalyanDrum]

Thanks for your comment! I'm really focusing on educating those who love this style but may not yet know how to play it :)

[@thecasiorobinson]

You lost me at level 0!!!! i love how simple you make this mike you are awesome (please collab with matt gartska or matt halpern)

[@MannyMo_]

How to play DJENT drums: Listen To Mike and Matt ✅

[@abstractang5374]

Malyan! This is super cool thank you for sharing the secrets! I have no idea what's going on yet but something at like 2:45 clicked! Hahahah Mega brain stretch.. Seems there is a lot to do with visualization and thinking.