Rosanna, Toto - Trinity Rock and Pop Drums Grade 8: 70% Speed Practice-Along Video

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Practice-Along starts at 1:16 for returning viewers :)

[@td-12kx53]

I wish I had this 25 years ago when I first learned this groove. It’s the hardest groove I’ve ever studied and it took me years to get it to performance level with at least some of the dynamics!

[@jokerswildio]

Thanks man!! This guy from Toto,RIP, was a very underrated drummer...we can see that the song is almost essentially built around the rhythm.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Jeff Porcaro, yes one of my all-time favourite drummers 👊🏻

[@jokerswildio]

@@MikeBarnesDrums 🥁👆👊

[@ratamacue6276]

Mike, you are an outstanding teacher! I love your enthusiasm and positivity.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Appreciate it Jeffrey!

[@dennisthate5787]

This is the very best masterclass & coaching tutorial Ive seen so far on this difficult groove . Thanks !

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Dennis! 🙏🏻

[@daveseretti8492]

Thank you Mike ~~ Breaking this number down by section and speed really puts things in perspective.. You are an excellent teacher..

[@alhuber144]

I really love his way of teaching!

[@peterfleming3011]

brilliant mike this breakdown of rosanna is the best example of all that i have looked at yet.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Peter!

[@richardwells5779]

Absolutely brilliant learning and Mike. I play in a community orchestra and was seriously disambiguated when the MR said we would be doing this. Having looked at most of the tutorials on the half time shuffle, you're is the one that gets me playing something resembling g it and this video has been just invaluable. Thanks so much!!

[@ALF1E_]

Mike after this and 2 months oolf practise before you have taught me how to do it . THANK YOU AS I WAS STUGGLING WITH THIS

[@MrJPatch1]

Who you gonna call?? Ghost-note busters!! Well done, Mike..

[@iainsutherland1593]

Great stuff mike so helpful!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Great, cheers for watching! :)

[@SDD62]

Mike thanks alot for this lesson. It helps me to play along with someone. I'm just now trying to learn this song so the speed is great!!

[@frankiefarrugia2526]

You have a great way breaking down the finer details Love playing to this one Thanking you

[@davepoulsen-bi9un]

Thank you Mike you are my go-to teacher what a great idea to slow it down that has helped me as well I love all your videos you are down to earth and have the patience of Job thanks again my friend

[@dougfinlay7531]

Thanks. I finally figured out the fill from your efforts! Awesome.

[@JimWoodoo]

Thank you for Rosanna drum lesson.

[@eddiebirkett9602]

Great Stuff Mike ! not a wasted note value !!

[@tasmanedgemusic]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@howiewarhurst1058]

Excellent lesson mate , really can see & feel what's going on .NOT easy to play !

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Hence the number 8 on the front of the grade book! Cheers man, thanks for watching :)

[@LyndaWhite-ju1gj]

Thanks for this one Mike, great tune great drums.

[@bertybertface1914]

Thanks for this. Hoping your channel keeps growing gets the traction it deserves. Cheers.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers 👊🏻

[@harryflavell3083]

Cheers mike. Gonna help me lots now 👍

[@peterbittner8263]

Wonderful. It Comes 100% on Jeff.

[@luigifestante6469]

Little by little I getting there 👍🏻 Great video thank you 🤩

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

That's the best/only way to get there IMO. Cheers!

[@nikcrocker6380]

Refreshing and inspiring.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Nik!

[@peterbittner8263]

Hi, Peter from Germay. Great Stuff Mike. Wonderful.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Ah cheers Peter!

[@pandui]

Just what I needed! Thanks a ton, Mike!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

pandui Sure thing man, thanks for watching 👊🏻

[@HongKongEclectic]

It’s weird for me. I learned in the 90s and find this much easier than many of the grade 4/5/6 level songs. I’ve never played this song but can feel it being comfortable. I think I struggle with anything using faster and more intense bass drum patterns.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

You find this easier but you’ve never played it?! I’m confused. Anyway thank you for watching 🙏🏻

[@HongKongEclectic]

@@MikeBarnesDrums Sorry, I meant that listening to it, it feels very comfortable and in my zone. Much easier than the idea of playing heavy metal and lots of things that come in earlier trinity books. Great video as always, I am going through a lot of your old ones at the moment. 👍🏻

[@Adam-fo3yl]

@@HongKongEclectic I'd say the song sounds deceptively easy to play on video, the snare drum technique is incredibly hard to perfect with all the ghost notes in the main groove

[@steveanderson6180]

I'm struck by an interesting thought while listening to this song at this speed. It's beautiful at this speed. Picture in your mind an orchestra doing this. Or a band with the instrumentation of EW&F doing it as a ballad. Better yet, somebody like Michael Buble. And then you mentioned it just as I finished typing...lol

[@hackercop]

Thanks so much for this.I finally got it!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

👏🏻

[@enventaustralia]

great help!!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers!

[@henningsvensson3495]

Nice

[@adamn.5672]

New to your channel this year. I’m at the 2 week point doing Rosanna & Lido Shuffle. Can only seem to do the kick on beat 1. Can you show me a way to start working in the kick

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5LJlZeciJyshdU

[@toptrump1499]

Hi Mike, I was meant to be taking my grade 8 exam in around 3 weeks. Any chance you can upload a video on ‘Seven Days’ breaking down the chorus and bell of the ryde cymbal groove. Thanks.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Yeah will do man. Cheers for watching! :)

[@timdaniel8436]

Very helpful Mike. Do you mind if I ask about your hi hat technique? Here I think you are using a french grip push pull technique like you would use for double strokes. In a previous video you demonstrate the moeller technique to help speed up the hi hat tempo which seems to be an american grip moeller technique in a straight groove. Is there a rule of thumb as to when you should be using one technique or the other? Thenks Mate.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Hi Tim, thanks for watching! I’d say I'm using a combination of Moeller-style whip and finger control/push-pull on the hi-hat here. My feeling on it is that when I’m in technique/practice pad mode I drill them as two separate techniques, but then when playing music I’ll use whatever combination feels and sounds right. “Head” when practicing technique, “heart” when playing music :) I take about my perspective on choosing which technique to use (or combination of) in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6S9epKgi6ubhsU, especially from the 13 minute mark. In terms of hand position, I feel they all work for both techniques, as I discuss in the video I mentioned above. I personally tend to default to French position for finger control/push-pull and to more of a German position for Moeller-style whip. Whip would probably explain why I'm somewhere between the two, American-ish, leaning towards French here. Here’s a reply I wrote a while back to a similar question on my full speed video of this tune (kzbin.info/www/bejne/maimdJKLetForKs): "Mostly I feel it’s all about working hard on your technique, speed etc in practice so you have that stuff ready to go, but then when you perform just enjoy it and play from your heart. I feel it’s easy with something like this to end up thinking in terms of technique as you’re performing it and it can really kill your flow. Of course you need all the technique in place, but then you’ve got to get out of your own head and just let it groove when you perform! That’s what I aim for anyway." Cheers Tim! Hope you’re well man.

[@timdaniel8436]

@@MikeBarnesDrums Brilliant! Thanks Mike. I missed your 8th April video so sorry to make you repeat yourself again! I only asked because there are many videos on the Rosanna Shuffle and once you have the ghost notes and kick more or less down you think to yourself 'Why do I still sound awful?'. And for me it's that lazy hi hat feel that Jeff has which is so beautiful but so difficult to get. I'll have to come and see you in Wilburton once this Covid stuff blows over. Cheers Mate.

[@BobTheStickMan5]

Been working on this shuffle all night, I’m exhausted but it was worth it. I can play the intro up to around 85% speed. I really didn’t think I would be able to play songs of grade 8 level but thanks to your teaching it’s been made a lot easier! Any tips on keeping consistency while playing this? I tend to slow down after a while or get cramped up. Thanks.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Yes, keep going! Consistently building up your physical skills over time with rudiments, drills, repetition of grooves to music etc. We have to craft those skills out of stone IMO. Cheers! Glad of you found it useful.

[@luigifestante6469]

New generation of musicians with KZbin supports like this are much more advantaged. I am a bit upset about that 😂😂

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

The founding premise of this channel was that I'll make the resource that the 14/15 year old version of me in 1994/5 wanted but didn't have! Cheers.

[@luigifestante6469]

@@MikeBarnesDrumsthanks Mike I am enjoying now that I am a bit older 😂

[@calvinnewcastle5899]

What program do you use to have the song playing in the back and play along

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Just runs from my laptop into the "mix-in" socket on the drum module via a 3.5 mm audio cable.

[@thomasallan2471]

Please could you do at slowed down version of Sweet Child O’ Mine? ( working on it )

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZu3aXZrZZd9gcU kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5e6dmBjpZqDl8U

[@a_guycalledjames]

What drum module you What module are you using here it sounds amazing !?!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Roland TD-11 Full run-down of the sound settings I'm using here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2elZ4VmfNR2qLc Full Kit tour here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWqwaWh8eq2lmJI

[@chrisnaiello]

What kind of electric kit do you use? It sounds awesome

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Thanks for watching man - kit details in the video description. Kit tour vid here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWqwaWh8eq2lmJI

[@chrisnaiello]

Mike Barnes Drums Cool! Thanks.

[@lolm8290]

I started grade 4 and I’ve already chosen to do come together but I can’t decide on the other two to learn so do you recommend any others

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

I recommend learning them all dude! Some great skills/vocabualry to assimilate from each. Thanks for watching :)

[@lorisf3882]

Hi Mike , do you know if the Anytune app allows you to edit and remove the drums from a song so you can play along to a drum less track ? Cheers mate

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Hi, no - it's an app for slowing down/speeding up music.

[@lorisf3882]

👍😎

[@lorisf3882]

Good that you can’t hear any of the original drumming underneath you’re drumming - how do you do that man ?

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

@@lorisf3882 It's the backing track from Trinity Rock and Pop Grade 8 - it comes as a free download when you buy the book!

[@Si-mh2kn]

It's the fill into the choruses I'm struggling with!

[@Peopleofthenation8776]

How do you even play it 😮😮😮😊

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

You do Grades 1-7 first! :) Thanks for watching.

[@SurviveTheDay]

Are you playing with my mind or are speaking at 130% speed?

[@josephdonnelly3169]

Like the page turns with the stick without missing a note…

[@thomasallan2471]

I actually prefer this one to full speed.( don’t worry if this is controversial.)

[@Peopleofthenation8776]

I’m 8 years

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Thanks for watching!