Drumming - WHAT to practice and HOW to improve

[@akimbo.1887]

+1 for Tomas Haake being a huge inspiration for getting into drumming

[@rafaelchavarria9647]

Man, that first 1:30 hit me hard...Im 47 and that is exactly how I feel...which is why, even though I started playing like 25 years ago but just for fun, not professionally, I recently started lessons again locally with a great drummer here, but also watching all these videos just to practice different stuff and learn something, anything, from beasts like Jay...

[@lobbyrobby]

I'm not at that "decent drummer stage" yet. I've been learning for about a year and I'm losing motivation. I've been trying to learn a couple new songs and I realize my timing is absolutely terrible. That's the most important thing a drummer should do, right? Then when I go to work on my timing I get bored as hell.

[@c0dypeng]

I'm not a drummer but this could apply to all the musicians out there. Thanks man, really love your advice

[@JFBscustomshop]

I love that you are promoting the use of performance improvement science for drumming. Measuring your interventions over time is a tried and true method to understand your performance and progress.

[@robertmajor611]

Inspiring, felt like a therapy session in the best way possible. Appreciated.

[@jude73528]

Thank you so much for this. Felt so stuck with my drumming, this video really helped.

[@Boxerharvey1]

Soooo needed this video, I’ve been stuck in a rut for a while with my playing and I’m forever comparing myself to every drummer I see and feel like I will never be as good as them. Thanks for this, keep up the awesome work on this channel and I’m looking forward to the new Tesseract album dropping.

[@eatower2]

This and your other vids are refining my training and practice more than anything else so far, much appreciated. Can't wait to finally see you and the boys live on Friday. Keep killing it man.

[@Nwachukwu-zh6op]

Exactly what I needed sir, thanks a lot 🙏🏿

[@map1978.]

I start my drumming journey today. Thanks Jay! 😊

[@kevinfromdevon]

You were one of the drummers that have inspired me to buy a kit and seeing you behind an e kit inspired me to look at e kits. I bought an Alesis command and it is a good starting point. It took me a week to start getting to grips with things. But now I am 4 weeks in and I am doing ok. Here is a funny story. I ate a huge amount of shrooms and started playing to Altered state. I wasn't focused on your drum parts or paying much attention to what I was doing, but I appeared to just feel the vibe of the different tracks and flow pretty well. Just autopilot doing my own thing. I hope one day I can be in that flow state without psychedelics 😆

[@Jacko1010]

I've been doing this for a couple years now, and it does help. Just be patience and you can learn difficult passages of music.

[@techwithdebrah]

Just what I was looking for, thanks soo much man really appreciate it.

[@roloduarte3100]

Thank you for this great and wise advice.

[@evejoy_eve]

So encouraged💪💪thank you

[@dave-d]

Yo Jay. Good vibes. Thanks for re-aligning the focus. Ya beaut.

[@Dreonthedrums]

That's how I feel right now. I'm a church drummer bur I don't plan on giving up

[@ls.vinicius]

You are amazing, Jay

[@progperljungman8218]

Wonderful and contributing video❤

[@BENJAMINGYADU]

Very true

[@Thisguyloves2fish]

Wow... 0:00 - 1:11 is EXACTLY where I am at and how I feel lol

[@LightsOfSkadi]

I am looking for some good examples of fills to use in my own music. Do you have any tutorial of sheet for fills?

[@boomerwithatumor4624]

please cover pineal gland optics brother! i gotta at least try and ask

[@RichardRed]

Excelente consejo que das Jay, estoy muy de acuerdo contigo, por mas estancado que pueda parecer que estas, siempre hay mas para desarrollar, es un mundo literal, infinito.. siempre hay para sacar provecho bien sea, practicando canciones o ejercicios, pero eso solo depende de la persona que quiera seguir por mas y es el que realmente va a tener un resultado positivo, sino queda solo en la queja y en la frustración, pero para los resultados hay que tomar acción si o si... Saludos!

[@xTheTrommeL]

I had this phase and this (and other reasons) made me stop playing for about 4 years. Last year I started playing again and since then I have improved so much already I am excited to see where I can get. However, I can´t stop wondering where I could be if I didn´t take that 4 year pause

[@JayTesseracT]

I wouldn’t dwell on that - you’ll never know the answer. What’s in your control though is where you’re headed and how much effort you put into it 🤘🏻❤️

[@ashwinmogral3596]

Do you have any recommendations of fills, grooves and rudiments to practice, like the basics for prog drumming? I used to take online classes but kinda got bored during the 2 month mark, mainly because I never ended up learning any songs through the course and they had different instructors for different genres, which was kinda a lot to take in. My aim is to start playing on tracks, so right now I’m taking a song breaking it down and trying to play it out. While also improving my rudiments.

[@cookedrums1044]

For me Schism by TOOL (the double bass part of the song is optional, if you're sticking to single pedal) was a great start for prog. Maybe Nocturne by Tesseract as well but halfway through the song it goes nuts and I still haven't gotten around to figuring it out / working on it (I should do..)

[@ashwinmogral3596]

Yeah Nocturne goes from I think I got this to hold up a minute 😂. I think I’ll first work on my single pedal. I’ve recently also gotten into Sleep Token, maybe will try to learn Hypnosis.