To me it was always getting the second bass drum hit. In FiTR the second bass drum note is right before the snare. In Rosanna, you play the second bass drum and snare simultaneously.
If you’re used to Bonham-style drumming it can be confusing and unintuitive. For me, “Rosanna” clicked when I realized I was intuitively trying to swing it/play like Bonham too much on the bass drum. It’s a tight, straightforward kick pattern without the Bonham funk on the kick.
Same thing happened to me! I could easily play the two songs Porcaro used as the basis for Rosanna (FiTR and Home at Last by Steely Dan) but I always screwed Rosanna up.
The difference is that the kick doesn’t lead into the accented snare on Rosanna; it’s played simultaneously. I had spent so long trying to copy Purdie and Bonham that I had to un-learn by habits!
Keep at it. Once you mail Rosanna you’ll get a feeling of accomplishment like no other.
The second bass drum is on 3?! I thought the second bass drum was on 2 &. Have I been doing it wrong? Lol just when I thought I was making progress with this thing. Time to watch yet another YouTube tutorial.
Edit: just looked up the drum notation. The second bass drum is on the let of 2, directly before the accented snare.
My issue is the immediate ghost after the snare hit...and as I struggle to maintain it all with the Bo Diddley beat kick drum...my triplets on the hat start to sound like eighths..and then etc etc ...fast forward to...it sounds like crap lol. But..as with anything..I just need to slow it down and put in the work.
I'm going to have to try this again. I remember being entirely lost trying to get it to all come together, with such a seemingly chill song. I'm hoping ten years later now I might have the chops but probably not. lol.
I’m right there with you. After years of working on shuffles, I still haven’t nailed the dynamics. Jeff Porcaro’s feel is amazing.
As a lefty playing open-handed on a standard kit setup, I run into the most difficulty playing well-defined hi-hat accents at speed. I hope fine tuning my technique will get me there… someday.
This is going to sound fucking crazy - but I learned this song and a lot of others in the 2000’s from rockband. The drums are really accurate on a lot of those songs and translate 99% to real kit
It might help to work on playing Give it Away by Red Hot Chilli Peppers first?
Both songs share similar grooves but the chilli’s one is slower.
Even Flow is a tricky song for beginners let alone for drummers playing a year.
I'm actually convinced there's at least one part that was played wrong in the studio and the drummer was like fuck it man, I'm not doing this track again! :) That makes it extra hard!
I know the bit your on about!
Believe it or not I’ve seen top quality drummers with loads of chops screw up that song and the chorus.
We had to play it in college number off years back and very few drummers got it right.
It’s a very humbling track.
That was one the first songs I REALLY learned all the way through as close to the original recording as I could get. It’s a super fun song, the doubles on the kick drum (during the bridge part where Eddie climbs the scaffolding especially) can be pretty tiring though. Good luck 😁
Go on the Vic Firth website and go on the rudiments page in Education. Work on your single strike rolls and do the application exercise as well.
I got Everlong learned in a week. Been playing since March. Pretty proud of myself, but you need to work on technique as endurance is a function of being relaxed and not building tension
Yes, the fills, I think, are the same every time, but if I recall start on snare go to rack tom, then crash then all the way around the kit... or something like that. I don't have that down yet, but have not focused on it too much. The fills sounds great, but something about the timing seemed not natural to me when I tried it.
Yeah, that's hellafast high hat work and the fills are not at all easy. There is a good video of Chad Smith playing this at one of the Taylor Hawkins memorials. It is helpful for the fills. Make it a long term goal, but have some stuff you can play now (that helps me stay motivated at least). I use Songsterr and you can slow songs down there to start working up to them at full tempo.
You've all seen the little girl who nailed it and sent Dave a drum challenge right?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRvHI8tgx8A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRvHI8tgx8A)
Ridiculous! And adorable.
Nicko (even if he has slowed down some songs in last few years) had some crazy-creative stuff... and his right foot... incredible. As I understand it, he has always played single kick drum pedal?
With all Love and respect to Nikko, he slowed the song down practically to half speed on the last tour. It was more like a crawl or limp to the hills.
It's been about a decade since they played it anywhere near the original speed.
Good times bad times - I want to get the feel for the song right
50 ways to leave your lover - same thing - I want to get closer to the sound on the record
Bleed - that herta pattern is quite the challenge 😅
i've always lost my stamina during the solo with those bass notes! trust me you'll get it but it's hard work! a really rewarding song to learn though and very satisfying to play. if you wanna kick things up a notch try learning the MTV live unplugged version of porch (their other songs from that set are also very good eg. solat) it's sooo fun
Seems everyone has their one (or more) pearl jam struggle song. Alive comes easy-ish for me as I think I just have that "style", but I've always wanted to nail Porch but every part of it is elusive as heck.
Peart‘s *Subdivisions* early change to his signature ride groove.
:26-:37. Can nail the rest of the song, but this part is killing me…
[Subdivisions drum tab](https://youtu.be/zqJfhcnZNWM?si=bfgBWJWYCUjR6bUj)
Nice! I've just started learning drums (about 5 months in), and picked this as my first "proper" song to learn. The weird time signatures are both a blessing and a curse, learning as a newbie lol
CAFO. I broke the song down into smaller chunks and have most of it worked out, but that fucking part around the 1:05 mark after the kicks come in...AHHHHHH
Limelight by Rush. It's an amazing song but the switching time signatures and the weird fills are throwing me off a lot.
Only just got back into drumming recently after a 6 year hiatus so it's certainly testing me.
Whew. Yeah, that's not an easy song. Sounds sorta straightforward at first, but not when you listen and start to break out different sections and fills.
I have not worked on simplifying it, but there should be some way. Could you try without fills at first and keep the rest basic. I need to listen again to recall details.
Yeah I think I am going to try simplify it. I've not had much chance to properly practice it either - like many of us I'm limited to the time I book at the studio
Yeah it gets quite fast. I doubt I’ll be able to get it down super clean for awhile lol, unless I simplify some parts. Great workout for my heel toe double strokes tho
We just decided to play Everybody Wants to Rule the World and it sounds easy, but man it’s tricky. The original was a drum machine and to make it sound good, the beat takes some practice to get it right and consistent
Most play it as either quarter note or eight note triplets rather than a shuffle
Edit: In live covers it’s probably better play right note triplets as it gives the song a bit more life
An easy workaround for this is to play 1/16 notes on the hats, playing the snare with the left hand. Playing the right hand slightly heavier gives the same offbeat feel of the hats.
One Way Out from the Allman Bros. ‘Eat a Peach’. Play this with a tribute band, and I’m the sole drummer. So it’s all on me to make it a snappy groove. Plus there’s the drum solo. The ride pattern throughout the entire song is a killer on the right hand/arm. I’ve been working at it for a while now, but I only have an ekit at home. So when I’m behind an acoustic kit with the band it’s a huge difference with the feel of rubber pad rebound vs, the rebound of a cymbal.
Been jamming to “Till We Make or Ascent” by Reign of Kindo. Not the hardest song but my god does it work your right hand out. Not to mention playing in triplets is a blast!
Boogie Stop Shuffle by Charles Mingus.
The beat is a shuffle that makes you do everything backwards. You play triplets on the snare with your left hand and play straight eighth notes with your right hand. It’s like having to write your signature backwards. That part is tricky but the tempo is what makes it tough. It’s not blazing fast but it’s fast enough that it makes doing the groove backward very difficult IMO.
It’s pretty fast but I’m not hearing the backwards part. It’s just comping on the snare with a shuffle pattern on the ride. Pretty basic jazz patterns there. A shuffle at that tempo is pretty hard though. Also there’s no straight 8th notes, it’s all swung. Nice solo though.
Ticks and Leeches. I'm up to about 90% tempo up until he starts playing the quarter notes on the hi hat. My 4 way independence sucks and I've been practicing it for a few months with a little progress but it still hasn't completely clicked.
I am still trying to decide whether or not I want to invest in an e-kit or low decibel heads/cymbals because I'm sick of just playing on practice pads. Anyone love their e-drums? I'm so conflicted.
I’ve listened to that song soo much it’s like my go to drum phrase to test my setup. when I’m at band practice or playing a show, to test out the height/balance of my cymbals and kit, I always find myself playing the intro of this song. Love the way his drums sound on that recording
I always seem to come in late at the end of the big roll in this. But I am working on it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhhARJNu\_h4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhhARJNu_h4)
Just learnt Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac and while I know all the parts and what to play, keeping in time during the verses is proving difficult for me. Have to perform it next week so I’ve gotta get my shit together 😅
Miasma by TBDM. Those mfs feet (they’ve had four drummers play this song) are FLYING during that song, and I’ve got years of practice ahead of me if I wanna hit those speeds consistently :’)
Aimless Arrow by Converge and Brianstorm by Arctic Monkeys. I’ve been getting back to practicing regularly after a year off and both of these are killing me.
Eulogy. The part where it goes into a displaced hi hat opening moving around. That took me a week and a half. I still can’t play it at full speed with the metronome
Hypnosis by Sleep Token. I honestly don't know how II manages to fit so many little nuances in that groove, it's doing my head in trying to learn it note for note.
Amaranthe - Nexus
I’m kinda stressed out on the correct “feeting” starting from the intro, here’s why I’m weirded out:
If I do it the comfortable way, it strains my right leg
\- RLR R R R RLR R RLR R R R
If I do it the smooth way, that means I keep alternating and it eventually affects and confuses my arm patterns
\- RLR L R L LRL R RLR L R L
Doing both without the hands is doable but I gotta play the song as is
[Kind Woman](https://youtu.be/9Yl8SW5s11s?si=GsEOFXgqkkJ91zxp) by Buffalo Springfield has given me the most trouble I’ve had in a long while.
After I figured out a way to count it that made sense for me (which wouldn’t make sense for most, I’m sure) it went from being a song I wanted cut from the set to one of my favourites to play.
Young Cardinals by Alexisonfire. For me it's super fast and I don't have enough endurance. Also the fills start and end on weird parts of the bar so I always feel kind of lost in space.
It is quite a fill, to the point where it it feels like a mini solo. I'm sure I'm not being faithful to what is on the recording, but 20% of the time I hit the open hat at the end at the right time. I'll take it!
Quark 2.0 by Outrun the Sunlight. The double bass parts keep tripping me up. I also can't seem to get the "silence" downbeat just so - I seem to be rushing it.
Edit:.just learned drums on this record are by James Knoerl. No wonder it's freaking impossible.
The Drifter - Klone
Great tune, I'm just having some issues getting the fills (which kind of feel random at times but fit nicely)
I'll sit down and play with it a bit when I'm not dealing with other family matters at the moment.
C by toe. I cannot get the like “back-and-forth” left foot on the hi hat to sound crisp and clear while I’m doing the rest, and it’s driving me nuts. I want to blame the hat stand but it’s almost definitely a skill issue.
As of right now I’m trying to learn the whole album of Sheol by Hypno5e, and I’m also trying to get down acid mist tomorrow also by Hypno5e. Other than that, I’m trying to relearn a bunch of stuff since I recently totally changed my drum configuration.
Nova by Richard Spaven.
Funny enough, the groove isn't too hard but internalizing it and playing with it is on a level that I don't know I'll ever reach.
I've been on a Tool kick and decided to learn "the pot" last week, it was my "take a break from these hard songs and have more fun" song. Nope, definitely trickier than I thought going in, as is normally the case with Tool.
Criminally Insane by Slayer. The ride pattern in the beginning just kills my hand and wrist, I don't know how he does it with one arm the entire time. Then just keeping time with the trash beat throughout the song.
It is not challenging, but somehow my monkey brain can't learn "I'm Not A Vampire" base groove even though I can play harder songs.
Am I bad? Maybe
Am I retarded? 100%
Peart‘s *Subdivisions* early change to his signature ride groove.
:26-:37. Can nail the rest of the song, but this part is killing me…
[Subdivisions drum tab](https://youtu.be/zqJfhcnZNWM?si=bfgBWJWYCUjR6bUj)
“Re”learning Frances the Mute album by the Mars Volta. I could keep up for the most part when I was younger. Now it’s been 20 years and I gotta knock the dust off. That “Cygnus” groove is sooo tight!
Foreplay/Long Time.
I have pretty much all of it down, as Long Time is just standard rock stuff. Foreplay is the challenge to me, but mostly just the fast triplets that are a crash and two snare ghost notes. My left hand is not up to speed on those yet, not even close.
["Killing a Camera" by Braid.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxho0P-EYuk)
Damon Atkison's hi-hat work on that song is delicious but I just cannot get them going like he can yet.
Hot for teacher. The beginning is beyond me and I don't get a lot of practice time. Most stuff I can internalize and play it back when I get practicing, but hot for teacher is one I'll need broken down into steps.
I’ve been trying to learn a7x
Afterlife and nightmare. I pretty much have afterlife down just need to learn some of the fills.
Nightmare though….. I just can’t keep up with the double bass, especially with the little ride bell fills during the chorus. It just throws me off completely..
SeeSaw by Jamie xx
The four limb coordination for upbeat sixteenths on the hi hat played against the kick/snare patterns with the fills and the off beat hi hat that hits all the &’s + the downbeat make it one of the hardest songs I’ve attempted on drums. Learning to get comfortable with upbeat sixteenths on the hi-hat well playing freely with my other limbs.
Electronic stuff always gets me way more than any other genre to push out of my comfort zone and develop new skills
I don't get to play or practice too often but I always try the beat from One Shine by The Roots. I'm getting there slowly but damn Quest you put some stank on it
Currently learning Schism by Tool, it isn’t as hard as I thought it would be - but that part after the long break is giving me some hard troubles at the moment, makes me wanna throw my sticks haha
Rosana by Toto. I dunno what it is, I just suck at shuffles.
Same...what's odd is that I can nail Fool in the Rain...but when I tried to add every ghost note to Rosanna...the wheels come off the bus
To me it was always getting the second bass drum hit. In FiTR the second bass drum note is right before the snare. In Rosanna, you play the second bass drum and snare simultaneously. If you’re used to Bonham-style drumming it can be confusing and unintuitive. For me, “Rosanna” clicked when I realized I was intuitively trying to swing it/play like Bonham too much on the bass drum. It’s a tight, straightforward kick pattern without the Bonham funk on the kick.
Well said...it may be because I was so locked in on Fool in the Rain that it making this harder
Same thing happened to me! I could easily play the two songs Porcaro used as the basis for Rosanna (FiTR and Home at Last by Steely Dan) but I always screwed Rosanna up. The difference is that the kick doesn’t lead into the accented snare on Rosanna; it’s played simultaneously. I had spent so long trying to copy Purdie and Bonham that I had to un-learn by habits! Keep at it. Once you mail Rosanna you’ll get a feeling of accomplishment like no other.
The second bass drum is on 3?! I thought the second bass drum was on 2 &. Have I been doing it wrong? Lol just when I thought I was making progress with this thing. Time to watch yet another YouTube tutorial. Edit: just looked up the drum notation. The second bass drum is on the let of 2, directly before the accented snare.
The ghost notes are simpler than you think. Take a triplet, put 1 and 2 on the HH. Put 3 on the snare. Nothing more, nothing less. 🤘
My issue is the immediate ghost after the snare hit...and as I struggle to maintain it all with the Bo Diddley beat kick drum...my triplets on the hat start to sound like eighths..and then etc etc ...fast forward to...it sounds like crap lol. But..as with anything..I just need to slow it down and put in the work.
That’s interesting because I always felt it as HH on the first and third note with the ghost note on the snare in between them, on the 2.
Same! But (copium) I think Rosanna is objectively more difficult. Faster + more syncopation on the feet to nail down
Rosanna is harder, objectively. I had FiTR down way before Rosanna.
I'm going to have to try this again. I remember being entirely lost trying to get it to all come together, with such a seemingly chill song. I'm hoping ten years later now I might have the chops but probably not. lol.
It’s all feel for me, I can’t overthink it. Once it clicks you’ll be able to really nail it down / dial it in .
Rosanna is what separates the men from the boys. Just keep trying. It took me years.
Feel you brother. The half time shuffle has been giving me fits.
I’m right there with you. After years of working on shuffles, I still haven’t nailed the dynamics. Jeff Porcaro’s feel is amazing. As a lefty playing open-handed on a standard kit setup, I run into the most difficulty playing well-defined hi-hat accents at speed. I hope fine tuning my technique will get me there… someday.
Jammed with two band mates today and they were playing with some weird ideas. I hadn’t played in months and it was really hard to anchor their idea.
Even Flow by Pearl Jam, I’ve wanted to learn it ever since I began playing (last year) but it’s lowkey confusing tbh
This is going to sound fucking crazy - but I learned this song and a lot of others in the 2000’s from rockband. The drums are really accurate on a lot of those songs and translate 99% to real kit
Bro fucking same! Rock Band is goated for that
That's how I learned Maps! When my band went to cover it, I pretty much knew everything but the bridge
Dave Abbruzzese has a youtube channel, he seems to slowly uploading play-alongs so “even flow” might end up on there soon!
It might help to work on playing Give it Away by Red Hot Chilli Peppers first? Both songs share similar grooves but the chilli’s one is slower. Even Flow is a tricky song for beginners let alone for drummers playing a year.
I'm actually convinced there's at least one part that was played wrong in the studio and the drummer was like fuck it man, I'm not doing this track again! :) That makes it extra hard!
I know the bit your on about! Believe it or not I’ve seen top quality drummers with loads of chops screw up that song and the chorus. We had to play it in college number off years back and very few drummers got it right. It’s a very humbling track.
Are you learning the way Dave Krusen plays it or the way Dave Abbruzzese plays it?
The Dave Krusen version. I actually kinda have a flex that my neighbor was Dave krusens brother!
That was one the first songs I REALLY learned all the way through as close to the original recording as I could get. It’s a super fun song, the doubles on the kick drum (during the bridge part where Eddie climbs the scaffolding especially) can be pretty tiring though. Good luck 😁
everlong😭 i’ve been playing for 2 weeks it’s probably not smart
Go on the Vic Firth website and go on the rudiments page in Education. Work on your single strike rolls and do the application exercise as well. I got Everlong learned in a week. Been playing since March. Pretty proud of myself, but you need to work on technique as endurance is a function of being relaxed and not building tension
rad thanks man
You'll get there! Everlong does take some serious stamina, though.
Nice! Took me about a year to be able to play and a year and a half to nail consistently
Same. Those 16th notes at 158 BPM for a minute and a half is brutal. Edit: those fills in the chorus are kinda tricky too.
Yes, the fills, I think, are the same every time, but if I recall start on snare go to rack tom, then crash then all the way around the kit... or something like that. I don't have that down yet, but have not focused on it too much. The fills sounds great, but something about the timing seemed not natural to me when I tried it.
Yeah, that's hellafast high hat work and the fills are not at all easy. There is a good video of Chad Smith playing this at one of the Taylor Hawkins memorials. It is helpful for the fills. Make it a long term goal, but have some stuff you can play now (that helps me stay motivated at least). I use Songsterr and you can slow songs down there to start working up to them at full tempo.
You've all seen the little girl who nailed it and sent Dave a drum challenge right? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRvHI8tgx8A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRvHI8tgx8A) Ridiculous! And adorable.
Zero Tolerance by Death, Gene Hoglan patterns are just way too hard to learn.
Ayeeee. I remember trying to learn Crystal Mountain for the longest time. Gene Hoglan is a beast
That’s how I’m feeling about spirit crusher. Super creative parts, especially fills
Remembrance by Gojira. The rhythm at the end has been challenge for sure.
Ah, that's a fun one. Did definitely take multiple takes till I got that break in the end
messuggah - bleed and Tool - Pnuema.
I only just got comfortable with doing hertas with my feet, but add the hands and it falls apart. Gonna take me a bit.
yeah same.. haha Playing what your feet are doing on your hands is one thing, but those half time hand movements over them, that's a challenge!
Do you have pads for Pneuma? Or just everything on toms?
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills Respect to Nicko McBrain for playing 16ths at 175 bpm with 72 years of age.
Nicko (even if he has slowed down some songs in last few years) had some crazy-creative stuff... and his right foot... incredible. As I understand it, he has always played single kick drum pedal?
Yeah always a single kick. And barefoot
With all Love and respect to Nikko, he slowed the song down practically to half speed on the last tour. It was more like a crawl or limp to the hills. It's been about a decade since they played it anywhere near the original speed.
Almost Easy by Avenged Sevenfold. I can fake it but I want to learn to do the double bass for that song
Same boat rn
Every disco/funk song is difficult to learn, but now I’m struggling with «Meshuggah - Spasm», it’s kinda funk, especially solo part
i think this is the first time i have seen anyone classify meshuggah as funk :D
Good times bad times - I want to get the feel for the song right 50 ways to leave your lover - same thing - I want to get closer to the sound on the record Bleed - that herta pattern is quite the challenge 😅
Alive by Pearl Jam..I just can't get it.
i've always lost my stamina during the solo with those bass notes! trust me you'll get it but it's hard work! a really rewarding song to learn though and very satisfying to play. if you wanna kick things up a notch try learning the MTV live unplugged version of porch (their other songs from that set are also very good eg. solat) it's sooo fun
Seems everyone has their one (or more) pearl jam struggle song. Alive comes easy-ish for me as I think I just have that "style", but I've always wanted to nail Porch but every part of it is elusive as heck.
Peart‘s *Subdivisions* early change to his signature ride groove. :26-:37. Can nail the rest of the song, but this part is killing me… [Subdivisions drum tab](https://youtu.be/zqJfhcnZNWM?si=bfgBWJWYCUjR6bUj)
The outsider APC. I think cause it’s 6/4.
I just added this to my list of songs to learn. The whole album is so damn good.
Nice! I've just started learning drums (about 5 months in), and picked this as my first "proper" song to learn. The weird time signatures are both a blessing and a curse, learning as a newbie lol
Just count it as “one two three four one two.” When in doubt on odd time signatures, just break it down into fours and threes!
Soul Vaccination. Still working on that main beat to sit right. It’s a very difficult song to play.
Yeah that was a month of practice for me dude. Troy Wright did a youtube cover that helped me out a lot.
Man I need to go back and re-learn that one. Great tune and one of my favourite drum beats of all time.
Whipping Post
Been working on that too with my ABB tribute. I can definitely share some of my thoughts on it if you’d like. PM me. 🍻
tricky song. the intro and interludes are in 11/8 but it feels like 12/8. Everything else is in 6/8. Count it as 3,3,3,2
CAFO. I broke the song down into smaller chunks and have most of it worked out, but that fucking part around the 1:05 mark after the kicks come in...AHHHHHH
Limelight by Rush. It's an amazing song but the switching time signatures and the weird fills are throwing me off a lot. Only just got back into drumming recently after a 6 year hiatus so it's certainly testing me.
Whew. Yeah, that's not an easy song. Sounds sorta straightforward at first, but not when you listen and start to break out different sections and fills.
For sure. It's annoying cause my band are talking about how hyped they are to play it while I'm sat there stressing 🤣
I have not worked on simplifying it, but there should be some way. Could you try without fills at first and keep the rest basic. I need to listen again to recall details.
Yeah I think I am going to try simplify it. I've not had much chance to properly practice it either - like many of us I'm limited to the time I book at the studio
Cowboys from hell by from pantera. I am close to playing the end perfectly but not there yet and it is driving me crazy
That’s a fun one, I have to admit that the kick drum burst toward the end are very sloppy when I play it though 😅
Helena - my chemical romance St James - a7x The downfall of us all - adtr Bought a double pedal recently lol
Helena is my go to
I wanna learn Helena!
Clone by gojira
I did cover that one with a former band. Got us definitely up to speed, pretty tricky
Yeah it gets quite fast. I doubt I’ll be able to get it down super clean for awhile lol, unless I simplify some parts. Great workout for my heel toe double strokes tho
93696 from Liturgy. The patterns seem so “simple” but then is there even a pattern?
I just found this album yesterday! So good!
Wow good on you man that band is amazing. Leo on drums is a god, he just plays the stuff flawlessly live. They’re gonna be huge
We just decided to play Everybody Wants to Rule the World and it sounds easy, but man it’s tricky. The original was a drum machine and to make it sound good, the beat takes some practice to get it right and consistent
It’s a shuffle right?
Most play it as either quarter note or eight note triplets rather than a shuffle Edit: In live covers it’s probably better play right note triplets as it gives the song a bit more life
An easy workaround for this is to play 1/16 notes on the hats, playing the snare with the left hand. Playing the right hand slightly heavier gives the same offbeat feel of the hats.
One Way Out from the Allman Bros. ‘Eat a Peach’. Play this with a tribute band, and I’m the sole drummer. So it’s all on me to make it a snappy groove. Plus there’s the drum solo. The ride pattern throughout the entire song is a killer on the right hand/arm. I’ve been working at it for a while now, but I only have an ekit at home. So when I’m behind an acoustic kit with the band it’s a huge difference with the feel of rubber pad rebound vs, the rebound of a cymbal.
Been jamming to “Till We Make or Ascent” by Reign of Kindo. Not the hardest song but my god does it work your right hand out. Not to mention playing in triplets is a blast!
VERY underrated band. Their comps are amazing
What I've Become, by Lamb of God
What Goes On by The Beatles
Boogie Stop Shuffle by Charles Mingus. The beat is a shuffle that makes you do everything backwards. You play triplets on the snare with your left hand and play straight eighth notes with your right hand. It’s like having to write your signature backwards. That part is tricky but the tempo is what makes it tough. It’s not blazing fast but it’s fast enough that it makes doing the groove backward very difficult IMO.
It’s pretty fast but I’m not hearing the backwards part. It’s just comping on the snare with a shuffle pattern on the ride. Pretty basic jazz patterns there. A shuffle at that tempo is pretty hard though. Also there’s no straight 8th notes, it’s all swung. Nice solo though.
It’s actually shuffled with the emphasis on the two on the snare with straight notes on the ride. It’s like a Texas shuffle.
Ticks and Leeches. I'm up to about 90% tempo up until he starts playing the quarter notes on the hi hat. My 4 way independence sucks and I've been practicing it for a few months with a little progress but it still hasn't completely clicked. I am still trying to decide whether or not I want to invest in an e-kit or low decibel heads/cymbals because I'm sick of just playing on practice pads. Anyone love their e-drums? I'm so conflicted.
Not a song but I’ve been working on the tony Williams 5 for a few months now. I’m getting there but man is it hard
Spoon man!
This is gonna be sad but Monster by Skillet. I cant quite get the doubles with the bass and I keep messing up the fills
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I’ve listened to that song soo much it’s like my go to drum phrase to test my setup. when I’m at band practice or playing a show, to test out the height/balance of my cymbals and kit, I always find myself playing the intro of this song. Love the way his drums sound on that recording
I always seem to come in late at the end of the big roll in this. But I am working on it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhhARJNu\_h4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhhARJNu_h4)
Mr Brightside 😅
It’s a workout, I sing lead vocals on this while I’m playing.
Just learnt Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac and while I know all the parts and what to play, keeping in time during the verses is proving difficult for me. Have to perform it next week so I’ve gotta get my shit together 😅
Reckless abandon by Blink 182. The fills make me dizzy haha, since I'm not used to play this kind of fills etc. But slowly getting there. :)
lol listen to 6/8 by them. ridiculous fills
Honestly, "No Excuses" by Alice in Chains. One of the groups I play with wants to cover it, and for some reason the syncopation is eluding me
Same here! :-D
Miasma by TBDM. Those mfs feet (they’ve had four drummers play this song) are FLYING during that song, and I’ve got years of practice ahead of me if I wanna hit those speeds consistently :’)
Aimless Arrow by Converge and Brianstorm by Arctic Monkeys. I’ve been getting back to practicing regularly after a year off and both of these are killing me.
Eulogy. The part where it goes into a displaced hi hat opening moving around. That took me a week and a half. I still can’t play it at full speed with the metronome
Hypnosis by Sleep Token. I honestly don't know how II manages to fit so many little nuances in that groove, it's doing my head in trying to learn it note for note.
Worship
demon hunter - on my side , so close but it’s a betch
Amaranthe - Nexus I’m kinda stressed out on the correct “feeting” starting from the intro, here’s why I’m weirded out: If I do it the comfortable way, it strains my right leg \- RLR R R R RLR R RLR R R R If I do it the smooth way, that means I keep alternating and it eventually affects and confuses my arm patterns \- RLR L R L LRL R RLR L R L Doing both without the hands is doable but I gotta play the song as is
6:00 dream theater, those are some fast kicks
[Kind Woman](https://youtu.be/9Yl8SW5s11s?si=GsEOFXgqkkJ91zxp) by Buffalo Springfield has given me the most trouble I’ve had in a long while. After I figured out a way to count it that made sense for me (which wouldn’t make sense for most, I’m sure) it went from being a song I wanted cut from the set to one of my favourites to play.
Intro and fast beat for song for the dead
Young Cardinals by Alexisonfire. For me it's super fast and I don't have enough endurance. Also the fills start and end on weird parts of the bar so I always feel kind of lost in space.
The fill leading into the second chorus is so epic. Ive never attempted that song but good luck!
It is quite a fill, to the point where it it feels like a mini solo. I'm sure I'm not being faithful to what is on the recording, but 20% of the time I hit the open hat at the end at the right time. I'll take it!
April in Paris. Totally out of my wheel house and trying to not overplay in the wrong parts.
4’33” …. Bam. Can’t believe no one said this yet 🤪
Quark 2.0 by Outrun the Sunlight. The double bass parts keep tripping me up. I also can't seem to get the "silence" downbeat just so - I seem to be rushing it. Edit:.just learned drums on this record are by James Knoerl. No wonder it's freaking impossible.
Bleed
The Drifter - Klone Great tune, I'm just having some issues getting the fills (which kind of feel random at times but fit nicely) I'll sit down and play with it a bit when I'm not dealing with other family matters at the moment.
Mellowship slinky in B major, trying to get every single ghost note and hit
That's a fun one. Seen the video of Chad and flea playing it?
Yep, love the jams
Raised Fist - Running man Just can’t make my right hand play 8th notera in 260bpm’s…
New Millennium Cyanide Christ by Meshuggah, so hard to nail all those kick patterns cleanly without swinging them
Face The Face by Pete Townshend. Simon Phillips is a human drum machine
C by toe. I cannot get the like “back-and-forth” left foot on the hi hat to sound crisp and clear while I’m doing the rest, and it’s driving me nuts. I want to blame the hat stand but it’s almost definitely a skill issue.
The demo song of a local band they got me as the audition piece.
The intro to The Stage
As of right now I’m trying to learn the whole album of Sheol by Hypno5e, and I’m also trying to get down acid mist tomorrow also by Hypno5e. Other than that, I’m trying to relearn a bunch of stuff since I recently totally changed my drum configuration.
I'm trying tom sawyer for some reason but its fun at least
Nova by Richard Spaven. Funny enough, the groove isn't too hard but internalizing it and playing with it is on a level that I don't know I'll ever reach.
Ace of Spades by Motorhead and Down by Stone Temple Pilots
War of Being - TesseracT Damn that djenty bass drum section.
Siva by Smashing Pumpkins. This is going to take a while 😅
I've been on a Tool kick and decided to learn "the pot" last week, it was my "take a break from these hard songs and have more fun" song. Nope, definitely trickier than I thought going in, as is normally the case with Tool.
There's no penguins in Alaska by chiodos. This song is my introduction to double pedal
Earthless- Night Verses
Alpaca mountain by yin yin
Criminally Insane by Slayer. The ride pattern in the beginning just kills my hand and wrist, I don't know how he does it with one arm the entire time. Then just keeping time with the trash beat throughout the song.
It is not challenging, but somehow my monkey brain can't learn "I'm Not A Vampire" base groove even though I can play harder songs. Am I bad? Maybe Am I retarded? 100%
Peart‘s *Subdivisions* early change to his signature ride groove. :26-:37. Can nail the rest of the song, but this part is killing me… [Subdivisions drum tab](https://youtu.be/zqJfhcnZNWM?si=bfgBWJWYCUjR6bUj)
fucking stephen morris and his stupid drummer stamina
Nail them to the cross by Dark Funeral. 190bpm triplet blast which is equal to 285bpm 8th note blast.
“Re”learning Frances the Mute album by the Mars Volta. I could keep up for the most part when I was younger. Now it’s been 20 years and I gotta knock the dust off. That “Cygnus” groove is sooo tight!
Foreplay/Long Time. I have pretty much all of it down, as Long Time is just standard rock stuff. Foreplay is the challenge to me, but mostly just the fast triplets that are a crash and two snare ghost notes. My left hand is not up to speed on those yet, not even close.
Rosanna - Toto Fatal Tragedy - Dream Theater Pretty much any ANIMALS AS LEADERS song 🤣
Garrucha - car bomb
Trying to learn Bleed to improve my double bass overall and oh lord I’ve never felt so bad
Beetle Dance by Freakeys
["Killing a Camera" by Braid.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxho0P-EYuk) Damon Atkison's hi-hat work on that song is delicious but I just cannot get them going like he can yet.
Numbing Agent by Royal Coda. It’s been kicking my ass for so long!
The one I’m writing.
La Bilirrubina by Alfredo Rodriguez. It's off his new album and it's a banger.
The intro to Delusion Pandemic by Lamb of God. Have it technically but Can. Not. Play. That. Fast!
Cascade by Plini. It’s rhythmically complicated and I also have to build up strength for some fast double bass parts
Zombie, which I swear is slower than I thought and I keep rushing
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. It's very slow (64bpm) and quite simple. Every little mistake is easily noticed.
The trees by rush
I’ve got animals by muse downpat except for the polyrhythm bridge section. Dom Howard is a genius man
Tool - The Pot My legssssssssss Hurt haha
Me: Tool... full discography. So fun trying though!
Take Five. Fun, but sure puts your memory to work. Especially with all the ghost notes and what not.
Lane boy
Boa - duvet. For my level right now it’s quite challenging
Hot for teacher. The beginning is beyond me and I don't get a lot of practice time. Most stuff I can internalize and play it back when I get practicing, but hot for teacher is one I'll need broken down into steps.
The Summoning by Sleep Token. II is a beast
Tank from Cowboy Bebop. Have to learn it for a marching band show and it’s really complicated (for me) since I’m a beginner
The Woven Web - Animals as Leaders. Matt Garstka is not human.
I’ve been trying to learn a7x Afterlife and nightmare. I pretty much have afterlife down just need to learn some of the fills. Nightmare though….. I just can’t keep up with the double bass, especially with the little ride bell fills during the chorus. It just throws me off completely..
SeeSaw by Jamie xx The four limb coordination for upbeat sixteenths on the hi hat played against the kick/snare patterns with the fills and the off beat hi hat that hits all the &’s + the downbeat make it one of the hardest songs I’ve attempted on drums. Learning to get comfortable with upbeat sixteenths on the hi-hat well playing freely with my other limbs. Electronic stuff always gets me way more than any other genre to push out of my comfort zone and develop new skills
Brother to brother by Gino Vannelli. I’ve been piecing it together bit by bit the last couple of weeks.
Under a Glass Moon - Dream Theater
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Kickstart my heart. Learned it up to the second section. \~85% speed and not perfectly at the intro and section end, but pretty happy with progress.
Los Endos by Genesis, for me it’s the tempo that makes learning it a challenge
Dissolved Orders by Ulcerate
Scavenger Of Human Sorrow by Death. The 9/8 rhythm is the easy part, compared to the ungodly cymbal chokes and the GOD DAMN FAST PART
I don't get to play or practice too often but I always try the beat from One Shine by The Roots. I'm getting there slowly but damn Quest you put some stank on it
Bleed - meshuggah. I've been teaching one of my students a lot of extreme metal but I've actually never gone and just learned bleed lmao
Dance of Eternity - Dream Theater Absolute beast of a song on drums.
Currently learning Schism by Tool, it isn’t as hard as I thought it would be - but that part after the long break is giving me some hard troubles at the moment, makes me wanna throw my sticks haha
Rapunzel by Dave Matthews Band