Rob Brown - Drum Clinic - Using A Metronome To Develop Feel

[@mjm5081]

Great ideas! Thanks for sharing and Happy Drumming!!!

[@holygroove2]

I so appreciate the attitude conveyed here about NOT hearing the metronome on the down beats. Thanks so much for this!

[@onaed1979]

Where have you been all my life? Thank you 🙏

[@BlacRayne00]

Your my new hero....15 years of drum playing and i realized i've been sleepin. Thank you for all your videos man. Time to get serious.

[@garye4678]

What an excellent lesson that was Rob, thanks very much for sharing. I’ve been doing some research lately, into ways to sharpen my timing & inner clock, this lesson is definitely going to the top of the list. I’ve been using moving clicks or displaced clicks. You set a drum machine to play on quarter notes for 4 bars, the 2nd partial 16th note (E) for 4 bars, the 3rd partial 16th note (&) for 4 bars & finally the 4th partial 16th note (A) for 4 bars & loop them as a 16 bar cycle. It’s a great exercise & I’ve been using it lately with the first 3 pages of Stick Control. It’s also a great exercise for feeling 4 bar sections pass by, instead of just going on autopilot and just going through the motions. I also do it for 8th note triplets, setting the 1st, 2nd & 3rd partials on a loop as a 12 bar cycle. I have watched Mark Shulman’s KZbin video called “How to Play Tight to a Metronome” by 180 Drums. Mark say’s to turn the metronomes volume down low & clap your hands to the click & try to drown out the sound of the click, if you can hear the metronome, your out of time, if you can’t hear it, you’re in time. If you can bury the click for one whole minute, he says to move to a different tempo +/- 2 bpm at a time. This is a very difficult exercise I find, but I’m getting better at it :-)

[@gazevo63]

What an excellent concept! I've started practicing to it & already I feel my timing tightening up a little. I started using the Quater Note click as the E's & A's of the 16 th Note subdivisions & applying it to a salsa groove. Playing Son 2:3 Clave in the left hand & doing 16th exercises over the top with my right hand, it really helps to make it groove. I had difficulty when I first started so I slowed it down & got it straight away. This is such a cool concept, thanks for showing us Rob.

[@nukeevry1]

This blew my mind... gonna try it as soon as I can.

[@Underdog_Drums]

Very nice way you had this planned out. You have that gift of gab too. I could never give a clinic, no matter how "good" I got

[@macsantiago2809]

Want to learn HOW to be able to do this? Check out the book Beyond the Metronome:becoming an Inchronous Musician.Thanks Rob,for propagating these concepts.Well done!

[@StuartJrBarrett]

Excellent lesson man!!!

[@callyjohnwell]

I used this concept many a time while songwriting. One of the best things you can do is have your guitarist follow along to a metronome and do this. Let the guitarist play 4 bars and when you come in it's like "HELLO".

[@andytaravella8124]

i got my butt handed to me in the studio yesterday it was a slow tempo tune and the click was messing with my feel and some of my chops not that i was getting crazy but it seemed like i was back to when i started playing not coming in on the one.this video gives me hope that i can try different ways to work with a click thank you i'm gonna get to the shed and work it out

[@duayneveer8229]

hey rob this is very helpful a couple months ago i decided to try recording to the click track im close but the trouble i have is falling behind or getting too fast we always set the click track on one, im gonna try this

[@aristin62]

It is cool. It's really cool, thank you.

[@poormanscowisdone]

The realness. Very Cool!

[@buhkatski]

I find it helpful to isolate the middle triplet also...Ever try that Rob?

[@THEREALCGHOST]

this is one of those things that as soon as you hear it, it clicks. I bet this will help alot

[@workout74]

this guy can learn you right about the drums.

[@SKragseth]

Thanks for this!

[@wakingupfrom]

love this guy

[@scentline]

How Nice Way Is! Thanks A lot!! ^^*

[@colourfulwithaU]

Great ideas, Rob! I have a question, what was the idea behind the last shuffle? What are you doing with your left hand? Which drummers is this associated with, and why? Can you recommend any recordings in particular?

[@frankburn6312]

Forgot "putting " the click on the last 16th (the "a") which is similar to the shuffle one he has and then putting the click on the 2nd 16th (the "e"). This one is really really hard.

[@AdrumaVictoria16]

Dope, thanks!

[@Jwgrafmi]

so cool!!

[@mravanteguarde]

the last shuffle belongs to jeff porcaro(rip) from the song rosanna - toto, don't know the idea also, i'm a guitarist getting rhythmic idea from a drum lesson.. ^_^

[@duayneveer8229]

mravanteguarde jeff got that from bernard purdie he did alot of work for steely dan and jeff played on black friday a good example is home at last from aja or babalon sisters from goucho called the purdte shuffle

[@johannespaavali]

Thanks Dude!!!!!

[@djabthrash]

awesome !

[@PenelopeWeiss]

amazing

[@sirpuppy1]

i have a korg metronome ma-30 and i don't know how to use it. do i do it when it goes beep or do i do it after it goes beep?

[@drummercouk]

excellent

[@bubnjarovski]

i can't find this on your website :(

[@jimmyjazz95]

very helpful

[@Stavros_Meggos]

What about half time? half time 4/4 ... I'm trying to forget :D 00:01

[@TheFoxFeelsNothing]

@THEREALCGHOST Pun intented?!

[@THEREALCGHOST]

@TheFoxFeelsNothing maybe lol