Thomas Lang - Expand Your Dynamic Range

Ask Thomas Anything: www.drumchannel.com/askthomas Practicing your dynamic range is essential to be a musical drummer. We are excited to host Thomas Lang’s “Drum Universe” on the Drum Channel website- here is a sample lesson of what you can learn from his amazing courses!
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Known for his incredible musical skills, Thomas Lang is one of today’s most popular and influential drummers- constantly touring the world as a solo artist, clinician, and drum ambassador.
On Thomas Lang’s Drum Universe the dynamic drummer explains and demonstrates the educational system he created and still uses to develop his legendary technique, speed, power, control, and 4-way independence.
The open-ended website has hundreds of short, engaging, easy to understand lessons and exercises with more content added regularly, that range from technique, independence, reading, playing, and more.
The world-renowned drummer/educator has recently joined forces with Drum Channel to host “The Thomas Lang Drum Universe” drum school in the Drum Channel Academy. And, as an extra reward for players who make this commitment to improving their drumming, an annual Drum Universe membership now includes a full membership to DrumChannel.com at no additional cost.
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[@drumchannel]

Share one tip you have on improving your dynamic range in the comments!

[@brandonlee9791]

Can't really think of anything Versatile on Drums🤔.But that's just me🤷🏻‍♂️,U know me Since 1993 from The Crow.If my name's🐲Brandon & I only Carry a Guitar🎸.Cheers✌🏻 Though.

[@stephenharman3987]

Using a brush in one hand and a stick in the other.

[@brandonlee9791]

@@stephenharman3987 👍🏻.

[@AlexLeys]

Play 8th notes at a very low volume with all four limbs in four different sound sources at the same time (hh w/foot, Bd, snare and ride for instance). try to avoid flaming and increase up and down one limb at time while keeping the other at low volume. Great exercise for Dynamic Independence.

[@drumsavvy8224]

Been watching you for 15 years Thomas..thank you for your drumming..

[@dan20man]

good to see Thomas with an additional mounted tom! That setup was killing me

[@normanwilmoth7404]

Your my fav bro, I learn so much from your playing✌

[@snorhyveln]

You Thomas Lang and Dave Weckl is the phenomenon in education and perfection. Clean, technical, dynamic, explicit in what you want to show us! Thanks 🙏🇸🇪

[@siemydi1]

Beautiful stuff ,as always!

[@Leddrums]

Lang is one of the best drummers in the history!

[@bhaveshsolanki6485]

Amazing dynamic control he made those drums and cymbals sing!

[@1414Gstevens]

I love that Thomas is back to 2 mounted toms and 2 bass drums!

[@DanyMeyer]

One Tip: If you haven't tried moeller technique, check it out and learn it from guys like Claus Hessler. This will benefit your dynamic playing a lot :)

[@miguelalfoya2031]

Yeap, thanks for the info! 😃 🤝🏻

[@bertpasquale5616]

Thanks for the great video - gonna practice now!

[@drumchannel]

Let us know what you come up with!

[@hectoracruz1975]

Me gusta el estilo de Thomas lang, y creo que es uno de los mejores bateristas de la época. A seguir adelante, aprendo mucho a pesar que me cuesta el idioma inglés

[@mr.d7429]

Thomas, I’m a big fan of your work! Your bass drums sounds killer in this one! Could you please share the curves of your EQ for the bass drum just for this session specifically?

[@ricardonascimento6016]

Thomas, sou seu fã muito muito muito. Saúde, paz e sucesso pra você e família!

[@aarondrumm2814]

Great, lets to improve it, thanks maese thomas, always every comment is a great lesson

[@buatsubs3961]

thank you

[@lifeboy48]

Thanks Daddy Thom... Favorite student from Ghana

[@willdrums100]

Very good!!!

[@citydrums7525]

Informative!

[@patriciocidhass3420]

great!🙌🏼

[@bdc-muzik]

Ergonomic masterpiece of a kit.

[@axelwinzh7199]

The tune of the snare is sick as f.

[@mut21]

Thank you Jerma.

[@locaengland]

I love Thomas

[@lionelvillahermosa653]

Excellent beautiful sublime... El maestro TL🎼🥁

[@krioni86sa]

Wow, Thomas is back with two rack toms

[@normanwilmoth7404]

I like his playing even more when he incorporates the two rack Tom's versus the single setup. It just seems to spice things up a little more but that's just my opinion on it✌

[@luigipioderrico]

I Was thinking the same 😅 Love his 2 tomtoms set up 🔥

[@normanwilmoth7404]

@@luigipioderrico it's tight isn't it! He's definitely able too add more dynamics to his playing with that setup, in my opinion😁

[@CHRISDRMS27]

That video seems to be old... Guess from 2016 or even earlier

[@normanwilmoth7404]

@@CHRISDRMS27 yeah I believe it's an older video because the one rack tom setup is more of his current setup but all he did was replace it with a 20 inch bass drum aka gong drum mounted on floor tom legs which is pretty cool though. I like the sound of big fat sounding floor toms but dynamically I still wished he just play his original two rack tom setup with the addition of the 20 inch gong drum. Now that would be a killer setup for him too play in my opinion and I hope he does it in the future✌

[@Leddrums]

Paradiddles on hit+snare indeed help to get better dynamics. My tip is to use ghost notes everywhere

[@jeffbanks9955]

i could only dream of being this good

[@AsaelMetalBand]

Que chimba parcero, excelente batero, salu2 desde Col, estoy aprendiendo este lindo instrumento, saludos man.

[@johnbolongo9978]

This dude is ......incredible....clean.

[@KONAMAN100]

That is one amazing sounding kit. Or it is with TL playing it.

[@Jason_Drums_]

Super Dynamics 👌 🥁 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🤩 🙌

[@drummerw17]

Thomas is Thomas!!!

[@tonytodaro4611]

Lang you rock...I only wish I could play that flawless 😉

[@krisdub5124]

monster!!

[@amartyabanik8643]

Wow

[@throne__]

I like how he double bass before he hit the drums😂

[@Rodrigo-bv7uv]

I just came for the solo part.

[@opiedrums6969]

Well if you have bozzios kit you can play a meledy, or a vibraphone.

[@ramm8196]

He might have a future in drums if he keeps working at it... 😜

[@jermyhopkisn9654]

Cute little baby toms.

[@plemyk]

Metronomes play to Thomas.

[@matthewpaluch777]

😎👍🇺🇸🇦🇹🥁💣 THOMAS!!!

[@Vigilant_Guardian]

there are four pillars of music melody, harmony, rhythm, and dynamics... 0:59 ... and a fifth - intensions - what are you trying to say? as drummers we can play melodic and harmonic your intensions could bring in the harmony and melody and create an entire work without other instruments... example Neil Peart solo's studied, expanded, emulated...what he studied like Hal Blaine you can be a hundred different people but you must find yourself in there somewhere and expression is what separates decisions .

[@ericcoleman6281]

THE PROFESSOR !!!!

[@kevinsiegel]

That's not Neil Peart. Be respectful.

[@CD-gk9ix]

Kevin Siegel Neil Peart couldn’t hold Lang’s sticks.

[@kevinsiegel]

@@CD-gk9ix That's about the dumbest comment I've read all day. Drumming is not a contest, you dolt. There's no such thing as "best" of anything in drumming. It's about making music. And as far as the nickname "The Professor" goes, Peart had earned that moniker before Lang was even born. Now go sit in the corner, junior.

[@CD-gk9ix]

Kevin Siegel ok Boomer. And Peart is no more. Which means, his nickname went with him.

[@kevinsiegel]

@@CD-gk9ix A boomer wouldn't know how to use the internet or KZbin. And thanks for making my point. The Professor has left this earth, and that nickname went with him.

[@mosilflutil10]

Gotta love that natural Austrian charisma lol

[@drumfanatik316]

The dislikes are from drummers that have no idea what dynamics are! 🤣🤣🤣

[@idunno114]

tell that to terry bozzio

[@Amigaudio]

Too bad your audio engineer did not understood how important a dynamic sounding drumset was for this lesson, and his crushed dynamics (compressors) made ghost notes and hard hits sound pretty much at the same volume. They where distinguishable only due to their different characteristical tone, but volume wise, it all sounded the same.

[@kevinsiegel]

"We cannot play melodic stuff on modern drumsets." Terry Bozzio is on the line to call out this garbage statement.

[@matthewschaeffer4656]

I think Thomas knows that and means for the standard drummer playing in a group setting.

[@CD-gk9ix]

Bozzio’s stuff is garbage.

[@kevinsiegel]

@@CD-gk9ix You obviously can't comprehend melodic playing. And the millions of records he's sold say otherwise.

[@bobleeswagger1774]

please at least make it 60fps or it would be a waste of his skill.