My Drummers video

[Cobshred666]

Hey check out this video of my drummer playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZwrbcqE84

[Cobshred666]

anyone?

[MNdrummer21]

He seems okay, but it could use some more variation and the time was a little spastic in parts. Also, he should tune his snare because it sounds a little out of tune. Another thing for him to work on would be a little better control of his double bass grooves because the hits are sometimes off and he flams the bass and snare.

[weed_makes_me_faster]

my thoughts would be:
a spoilt rich kid with great equipment and a lagging skill. that's all. ba bye.


ok, ok.... :lol: he was kinda good!

[ThugsRook]

thats THING!

he's getting better :thumb:

[puppet.master]

I do believe thats ttsnb hes doing pretty damn good
better than mr for sure
i can certainly feel the groove in parts

[weed_makes_me_faster]

TTTSNB (your drummer) is on here too, you know and i think he could've posted this video himself... and he would've posted it in the right place.

[Jody LeCompte]

Well, speaking from a bassist point of view, I certainly wouldn't want to play with him. He has a huge set for absolutely no reason because he can't seem to use any bit of it tastefully. He's far too repetative and when he does try to switch things up he just flings his arm to another part of the set to play the same rhythm on a different piece.

His tone is also horrible.

[weed_makes_me_faster]

ok, it finally loaded... watched it - nope, didn't like it.

[ThugsRook]

im sure it would sound better if we could hear the backing track hes playing to.



yes, drums and even drummers usually dont sound good when listening to them this way... needs the backing track ;)

[Vannaroth]

Well I at least liked it.

[RedDot]

Yes, his playing was unbelievably annoying.

But look at the way he holds those sticks! It's terrible, just, unbearable.
He needs to learn how to do fills on toms, not or crashes/rides.

Edit: I'm also not a big fan of really long blast beats.

[AmodestBeginning]

his playing wasnt as good as i would have suspected.
his tone wasnt all that great either

[Bukowski]

Man, that's a sweet kit your drummer's got. I hate money because I never have it.

He's pretty good I guess.

[PandaDrummer]

he's a decent drummer, im not fond of blast beats, nice kit btw

[TTTSNB]

Alright, well I see that you guys can be kinda dishonest to me, if I posted that, you probably wouldn't have been so critical.

I was playing to the click the whole time, thats why sometimes the playing sounds a little "uncreative", I was focusing on keeping in time the whole time.

As for you, Jody LeCompte (http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/member.php?u=123092)

First off, that was recorded with a video camera. You think my drums are gonna sound amazing through that crappy mic?

I have a "huge" set because I actually do use everything, contrary to your stupid belief.

As I stated above, I was playing all that to the click, so I only really played stuff I know I could play decently.

Red Dot,
Ok, maybe my technique sucks, I don't know.

I do play many tom fills in this song, but I also like to use double ride stuff and crash stuff, its a nice different sound and is fun to play.

. Are you threatened by me playing something thats slightly unorthadox?

[DillingerEscp]

Hes not bad. it really did get boring after a while.
If you guys play shows, tell him not to bring ... like over half of the cymbals and stands he has, because I dont think I saw him use over half of the cymbals.

I didnt watch the whole thing though... but about 4 min of it.

[TTTSNB]

Hes not bad. it really did get boring after a while.
If you guys play shows, tell him not to bring ... like over half of the cymbals and stands he has, because I dont think I saw him use over half of the cymbals.

I didnt watch the whole thing though... but about 4 min of it.
Well, I actually use pretty much all of them, I just wasn't really there because I was focusing more on getting it as clean as possible. I don't think I'm gonna bring the over head chinas, or most of the splashes/

[ThugsRook]

I was playing to the click the whole time...
playing to a click or a cd can make you sound monotone, i dont personally concider it "at your best" when playing like that.

the backing track of what you were playing would help too.

i think youre sounding better :thumb:
remember ~ its not about what youre playing but how well youre playing it, timing etc.



Jody LeCompte ~ why does that sound like the name of a bad Philadelphia cover band to me? :confused:

[sLarkin20]

i hate your video simply because of the sound your ride makes, sorry

[Voodoo]

That wasn't all that clean man. The blast beats were the only thing that sounded alright, but I couldn't even hear your bass drum during them so I don't know how clean they were.

All around I'd say your feet could use some work.

[TTTSNB]

playing to a click or a cd can make you sound monotone, i dont personally concider it "at your best" when playing like that.

the backing track of what you were playing would help too.

i think youre sounding better :thumb:
remember ~ its not about what youre playing but how well youre playing it, timing etc.



Jody LeCompte ~ why does that sound like the name of a bad Philadelphia cover band to me? :confused:
Yeah, thanks man.

I guess so, I'll post another video later of me playing just jamming out, playing all the stuff I know.

I'm trying to play the best I can, but I agree I need to work on the double bass, not real clean.

[moogoogaipan]

TTTSNB... take it to heart, but don't take them as insults....(well except for the few harsh critics).

Whether it was intentional or not, that was genius having someone else post your stuff. I'm gonna try that and see if I can some extremely honest answers.
If people think the drummer isn't on the forum, they aren't afraid to open up on him.

some things I noticed

1)you looked very tense much of the time
2)dynamic ranges didn't exist
3)drumming seemed like the ideas didn't flow well at some times
4)I dug that little melodic thing that you did on the two really tiny splash cymbals
5)Work on being more melodic...it sounded like drumming and not like grooving... (if that makes sense)

[TTTSNB]

TTTSNB... take it to heart, but don't take them as insults....(well except for the few harsh critics).

Whether it was intentional or not, that was genius having someone else post your stuff. I'm gonna try that and see if I can some extremely honest answers.
If people think the drummer isn't on the forum, they aren't afraid to open up on him.

some things I noticed

1)you looked very tense much of the time
2)dynamic ranges didn't exist
3)drumming seemed like the ideas didn't flow well at some times
4)I dug that little melodic thing that you did on the two really tiny splash cymbals
5)Work on being more melodic...it sounded like drumming and not like grooving... (if that makes sense)
Alright man, I appreciate the critique. I don't mind if people give me honest answers, as long as they do it in a constructive way. I didn't do that on purpose, my guitarist just posted it without my knowledge, haha, but it seems like a good idea.

1....yeah I need to work on my technique, my teacher and I are working on that, and I'm doing alot of pad work lately.

2....yeah, I need to work on that too, its just when I play quietly, I sound worse, so I just hit harder, haha.

3...Need to do that also, thats mainly because I was just playing random things, not really doing anything planned out.

4...Thanks, sort of a Bozzio influence I guess, haha.

5...Definitely, thats one aspect I haven't really thought of.

[Corkofski]

so THATS what sound sawblades make

i liked it :|

[hobo with bass]

whats your favorit drummers? mine is joey jordinson :)

[moogoogaipan]

whats your favorit drummers? mine is joey jordinson :)
you're just asking to get cut, aren't you?

[Corkofski]

whats your favorit drummers? mine is joey jordinson :)
mines your mum

**edit:** oh, hes a noob. and a bassist.

we dont like joey all that much here. go listen to some buddy rich or **looks up** akira jimbo

[Jody LeCompte]

Im a bassist as well but I like to think I have pretty good taste.

Joey Jordison gets so much credit, but isn't there basically another whole drumset between all the percussionsist?

[Obelisk]

I don't really see why everybody is harping on ya, TTTSNB - I thought it was a fine video, like the 2 rides.

[Plan B.]

Love your ride sound, that kit is totally B.A.

I thought you had a lot of varitation too.

Sweet vid.

[darkevent89]

Funk drummin' is where its at man.

[moogoogaipan]

Funk drummin' is where its at man.
shut up cockfag...
seriously though, there's no truer statement... except perhaps jazz drumming. Both are in the same ballpark

[aznriceball]

i dont know why, but i love that ride sound. and the toms sound great to me, for a camera. blast beats arent my cup of tea, but i liked the groove in the first minute of the vid, especially with the saw.s

[TTTSNB]

I don't really see why everybody is harping on ya, TTTSNB - I thought it was a fine video, like the 2 rides. Thanks. I'll agree that I can be sloppy at times, but I don't think it was terrible, you know? 2 ride stuff is awesome, haha.

i dont know why, but i love that ride sound. and the toms sound great to me, for a camera. blast beats arent my cup of tea, but i liked the groove in the first minute of the vid, especially with the saw.s Thanks dude, I've had it for a few years, maybe its had time to "age" a bit. Thanks about the toms also, medium batter, loose resos. I use blasts beats just as mainly a dramatic effect in songs, its not even 1% of what I do. As for the groove, yeah, I tried to make this is groovy as possible, haha.

Love your ride sound, that kit is totally B.A.

I thought you had a lot of varitation too.

Sweet vid. Thanks also, I like my ride too, haha. Which one do you prefer? The main one or the secondary one? Variation, yeah, I tried to.

[ofDooM]

i like everything on your kit...

[BSU_53]

bad taste and style. Bad hair too. Does he dress emo, death metal, or punk, he wasn't in the camera enough to get a good look, as if there is much of a difference. I hate when people CHOOSE to look like idiots. And I have a lot of them in my visual arts classes, and they smell pretty funny too. Not saying you do, but that's going to be the preconception people have of you for the rest of your life if you keep it up. Take pride in yourself and get over the black clothes and long hair, get a trim, and clean up with some soap and water! Sunshine never killed anybody either...except icarus, but that was his own damn fault. On another note, he has lots of potential, he just needs to mature his style and hone in on what he wants out of drumming. The double bass is pretty darn quick, but so overwhelming, you should try doing rudiments with them and incorporating them into other styles and not just crazy blastbeats, TRUST ME, it's a lot more fun than you think, and you'll get into other styles, and yours will mature.

[Arpanet]

Amazing kit. Decent chops. Terrible groove. With a few exceptions, lacking in interesting rythmic ideas.

[green242]

bad taste and style. Bad hair too. Does he dress emo, death metal, or punk, he wasn't in the camera enough to get a good look, as if there is much of a difference. I hate when people CHOOSE to look like idiots. And I have a lot of them in my visual arts classes, and they smell pretty funny too. Not saying you do, but that's going to be the preconception people have of you for the rest of your life if you keep it up. Take pride in yourself and get over the black clothes and long hair, get a trim, and clean up with some soap and water! Sunshine never killed anybody either...except icarus, but that was his own damn fault. On another note, he has lots of potential, he just needs to mature his style and hone in on what he wants out of drumming. The double bass is pretty darn quick, but so overwhelming, you should try doing rudiments with them and incorporating them into other styles and not just crazy blastbeats, TRUST ME, it's a lot more fun than you think, and you'll get into other styles, and yours will mature.
sir, I do belive this was a post to ctirique on drumming.. haha, not style of clothes:p ...

[HeLLmO]

bad taste and style. Bad hair too. Does he dress emo, death metal, or punk, he wasn't in the camera enough to get a good look, as if there is much of a difference. I hate when people CHOOSE to look like idiots. And I have a lot of them in my visual arts classes, and they smell pretty funny too. Not saying you do, but that's going to be the preconception people have of you for the rest of your life if you keep it up. Take pride in yourself and get over the black clothes and long hair, get a trim, and clean up with some soap and water! Sunshine never killed anybody either...except icarus, but that was his own damn fault. On another note, he has lots of potential, he just needs to mature his style and hone in on what he wants out of drumming. The double bass is pretty darn quick, but so overwhelming, you should try doing rudiments with them and incorporating them into other styles and not just crazy blastbeats, TRUST ME, it's a lot more fun than you think, and you'll get into other styles, and yours will mature.


dude, honestly, who cares if someone wears black cloths and has long hair? i mean, i wear black, and i want to get my hair longer for sicker headbanging, but even if we do wear black and have long hair, that doesn't mean we don't wash regularly. c'mon, no need to judge anyone. u may think ppl who wear black and have long hair look stupid, but i'm sure there are ppl who think u look stupid to

[TTTSNB]

bad taste and style. Bad hair too. Does he dress emo, death metal, or punk, he wasn't in the camera enough to get a good look, as if there is much of a difference. I hate when people CHOOSE to look like idiots. And I have a lot of them in my visual arts classes, and they smell pretty funny too. Not saying you do, but that's going to be the preconception people have of you for the rest of your life if you keep it up. Take pride in yourself and get over the black clothes and long hair, get a trim, and clean up with some soap and water! Sunshine never killed anybody either...except icarus, but that was his own damn fault. On another note, he has lots of potential, he just needs to mature his style and hone in on what he wants out of drumming. The double bass is pretty darn quick, but so overwhelming, you should try doing rudiments with them and incorporating them into other styles and not just crazy blastbeats, TRUST ME, it's a lot more fun than you think, and you'll get into other styles, and yours will mature.
You sir, are a ****ing idiot. Just because you see that I have long hair, you automatically assume that I am someone I'm not. I don't wear black all the time, I am VERY careful with my personal hygeine (Shower daily, wash my hair daily at least), and I don't like the heat in the summer. I like metal thank you very much, among MANY other styles. How old are you? 12? You sound like some of the kids at my school. And no, I'm not cutting my hair, you worthless ****ing prick.

I'm probably either 5+ years older than you, or you may be older than me (17), but I'm telling, cease this moronic and close minded attitude before your brain explodes.

I am learning many other styles in my drumming, I can play some decent samba and jazz also. The double bass, I do play some more syncopated patterns with it, if you could only listen, but not the most syncopated because I'm not fully comfortable with them yet, so I don't want to play them in a video.

Oh, and use paragraphs so I can actually read what you're saying.

[ThugsRook]

bad taste and style. Bad hair too. Does he dress emo, death metal, or punk, he wasn't in the camera enough to get a good look, as if there is much of a difference. I hate when people CHOOSE to look like idiots. And I have a lot of them in my visual arts classes, and they smell pretty funny too. Not saying you do, but that's going to be the preconception people have of you for the rest of your life if you keep it up. Take pride in yourself and get over the black clothes and long hair, get a trim, and clean up with some soap and water! Sunshine never killed anybody either...except icarus, but that was his own damn fault. On another note, he has lots of potential, he just needs to mature his style and hone in on what he wants out of drumming. The double bass is pretty darn quick, but so overwhelming, you should try doing rudiments with them and incorporating them into other styles and not just crazy blastbeats, TRUST ME, it's a lot more fun than you think, and you'll get into other styles, and yours will mature.
never trust anyone that says: TRUST ME :lol:

[knie]

^ Haha so true.

What your guitarist did was actually a pretty good way to receive some honest answers indepedant on who the drummer is.

The video is pretty good considering it was taken with a camera phone. Set sounded OK, but as said before, some variation would increase its dynamics.

I'm looking forward to seeing a video where you jam on every piece of the kit with different styles and everything, it'll be really cool.

[MNdrummer21]

bad taste and style. Bad hair too. Does he dress emo, death metal, or punk, he wasn't in the camera enough to get a good look, as if there is much of a difference. I hate when people CHOOSE to look like idiots. And I have a lot of them in my visual arts classes, and they smell pretty funny too. Not saying you do, but that's going to be the preconception people have of you for the rest of your life if you keep it up. Take pride in yourself and get over the black clothes and long hair, get a trim, and clean up with some soap and water! Sunshine never killed anybody either...except icarus, but that was his own damn fault. On another note, he has lots of potential, he just needs to mature his style and hone in on what he wants out of drumming. The double bass is pretty darn quick, but so overwhelming, you should try doing rudiments with them and incorporating them into other styles and not just crazy blastbeats, TRUST ME, it's a lot more fun than you think, and you'll get into other styles, and yours will mature.
A little uncalled for, dont ya think?

[PandaDrummer]

its ok TTSNB my drumming sucks more than that,

he he thats why I never post anything

[TTTSNB]

its ok TTSNB my drumming sucks more than that,

he he thats why I never post anything
Heh, I doubt it man. I'll post another video of me grooving with my new bassist, who's in jazz band at school and an overall excellent player.

[White]

Even thoguh it was TTTSNB, I still really didn't enjoy it, ya TTT I understand I read your post, but I think you could of done better with a click, even I can. haha JK, but non-the-less you are better than me

[CARMEN77]

More groove, less aimless blasting and stick twirling. Less cymbals more chops. Less speed more feel. Good double bass and single roll chops though. You blast pretty fast and your feet are way ahead of anything I am capable of. I liked the feet alot.

[Obelisk]

Warning! - It seems as though people are taking pictures of themselves disguised as Zildjian reps... be aware that they are likely not, and may try to fool you with thier insight on how they think you should play drums and dress, or just how to live you life in general. Pay close attention to the gentleman below...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b226/jeremydrury/random.jpg

If you see him, run the other way with your ears plugged humming a tune such as "Quiet Fire", hopefully none of his literal disserations get through.






Dude, sorry for the somewhat personal attack, I'm just backing a fellow brother in stick, who comes here to progress as a drummer, not to get harped on for how he looks, or pre-judged by narrow minded fools.

[ToMsK]

i was gonna blast the fool that went on about looks and but i realised thats already been done on this page, nvm, anyway i thought the first minute of playing was good with the double ride stuff and i liked the left hand on hihat then switching to right hand on ride and the DB'ing aswell, i didnt like the blast beats though it got boring after the 2minute mark .
good playing though just need to put more variation into it and concentrate on dynamics aswell maybe through in some more off beat stuff

[TTTSNB]

Warning! - It seems as though people are taking pictures of themselves disguised as Zildjian reps... be aware that they are likely not, and may try to fool you with thier insight on how they think you should play drums and dress, or just how to live you life in general. Pay close attention to the gentleman below...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b226/jeremydrury/random.jpg

If you see him, run the other way with your ears plugged humming a tune such as "Quiet Fire", hopefully none of his literal disserations get through.






Dude, sorry for the somewhat personal attack, I'm just backing a fellow brother in stick, who comes here to progress as a drummer, not to get harped on for how he looks, or pre-judged by narrow minded fools.
:) Thanks man. I appreciate the support.

[Plan B.]

Your AA one on the right, sounds similar to my Ping ride, so nice.

[DrOctagon]

i hate your video simply because of the sound your ride makes, sorry
i think the sound your talkin about is him hittin the bell.

i thought it was a good vid, not very clean considering you were playing to a click. none the less its better than i could do. how long have you been palying for?

eh and nice set, peace

[NewMetman]

I liked it. Better than i can play. Only thing was that the blast beat at the end dragged on a little bit, and on occasion its seemed like it stuttered coming in and out of fills. Like the tone and the kit:)

[TTTSNB]

Your AA one on the right, sounds similar to my Ping ride, so nice.
Yeah, thats my favorite too. I think it sounds so good because I've had it for about 4 years now, and its had a bit of time to age in. The only thing I can't do with it is crashing, its only drawback.

[Quinto]

vomit. i hated it, it was the same thing repeating, and he didnt need all that shlt

[ThugsRook]

vomit. i hated it, it was the same thing repeating, and he didnt need all that shlt
didnt read the thread at all did ya?

[drummerdude9574]

sounded good i like the blast beats but dont repeat them so often.. kinda spoils them making people just want to beat the crap out of you haha

but i liked it alot, i agree some of the bass was off, could be dew to a bad pedal, as in my case, my iron cobra is falling apart

other then that man lol give me some of those cymbals you have to much :thumb:

[The Fiction We Live]

Sunshine never killed anybody either...except icarus, but that was his own damn fault.

You guys have to admit, that line is funny even out of context.

They playing was pretty good, but I'd like to see a video of you just jamming and not caring about the click.. thats when the best comes out IMO.

Keep it up don't let the haters get to you haha.

Long live the Capitol Beltway Area!

[Carn]

More groove, less aimless blasting and stick twirling. Less cymbals more chops. Less speed more feel. Good double bass and single roll chops though. You blast pretty fast and your feet are way ahead of anything I am capable of. I liked the feet alot.

That pretty much sums up my opinion; I would like to add dynamics as well.

[Burningwater]

If you were aiming to impress, your goal is far from achieved. If you wanted to post to get some criticism, good idea.

Technique:
Decent, you've got speed, but I wasn't terribly impressed with your independence. I'd pick up 4 Way Coordination by Marvin Dahlgren. It's an amazing book and it'll open up your playing like you wouldn't believe.

For the groove:
The parts that sounded decent were common. The parts that weren't common sounded bad. Try experimenting and making it sound good.
Blast beats might sound good in songs but in a solo, it'd be better to stay away from them. Learn to use your entire set musically, from what I heard you had way more than you could use at this point in your career.