Best drum teacher on the Internet by a mile. Love your video lessons Stephen, thank you so so much. Loved this one!

Patterns are from 4:37 to 5:55.

I've been practicing with you for several months along with some others. I've been playing over 45 yrs. I just recently had a tragic accident. I grabbed a circular saw blade and got all my key fingers. Pointer, middle & ring. It was my left hand but I'm righty. I'm currently playing for my church and was just wondering if you had any one handed confidence building practices I can do. This is a huge set back but I'm never going to let it stop me from playing. God willing 🙏

A very "simple" lesson, but extremely valuable. Great guidance on the practice exercises to build coordinated timing as well as independance between the limbs. Love your stuff, Stephen!

Bouncing the beater is the best thing you can learn. It makes everything easier, smoother and it sounds better. Ghost notes on the bass drum makes your groove feel 100% better

I think this is by far the best lesson for me as beginner drummer. Struggling with the same issues and now I can start to practice correcting them the lesson make so much sense. Subscribed!

This is what i needed!

Disintegration by The Cure, the title song of the album has a really tricky And A 2 sort of thing with the kick doing offbeats that continue to challenge my ability to relax my leg especially to allow the kicks to land in those places and to leave spaces where I haven't yet got the knack to leave open, intermediate blues. I've been making progress working out the tension in my right leg, dissolving the emotional blockages that were in the way between head and foot. This is the deepest music as physical and emotional therapy experiences I've had with drums getting the focus. In guitar, voice, and horns I got the skills to buzz my tissues and drone, with guitar doing the Robert Fripp calisthenics reveals tension patterns in my fingers that persistence in the practice dissolves those blockages, which includes awareness of ergonomics so that one's body isn't challenged just to hold the instrument. Under the influence of Taoist Water meditations of dissolving energy blocks plus the Robert Fripp stuff I had to relearn how to play guitar, how to sing without tension which in every case from guitar to voice, flute to drums makes my return to active professional musician duty go at lightning speed. 5 years into my first kit ever, with the kit in storage for three of those five years and I'm already in a band that's in a good place of development that matches my skills on the kit. The practice in the band, plus the son of the band leader being my new drum student deepens my practice such that in taking in your vids and scads of Drumeo too makes every return to my kit reveal advancement in basic skills. Taking it to drums brings my legs into the equation so brightly it also brings greater power to this method of healing that I learned about in my Chinese martial arts classes. It's one thing to do the qigong movements and meditate in a way to dissolve tension, and then it takes it into super juice mode by training the kind of coordination to play tricky syncopated drum beats on a standard 20th Century kit. Wandering Star, Portishead has such a tricky kick in it that I used to undo my leg's resistance to bouncing with relaxed accuracy. Natty Dread the whole album is great to play along to as Reggae is incredibly intricate on the drums especially. Getting my right leg to allow the One Drop beat is a process. Immigrant Song is my goal for strong triplet bouncing fluency. Thanks again, Stephen. This one digs right into one of my difficult spots and gives some keys to make it go even faster to get to relaxed fluency.

Awesome lesson.

Yeah this is super, gotta go to work on these.

Can you point me to your lesson on bouncing the beater? I'd like to learn how to do that so I have that option if and when needed. Thanks.

Watching this as a bassist to learn drum patterns to play to haha

Love your videos, but usualy it is 10 minutes of introduction, 2 minutes of actual lesson and maybe a good hint in here and there wich makes differance if you dig deep enough. For this reason i have a whole notebook with time stamps to skip all unnecesary. This video is basicaly 4:38 - 5:53 , BUT this time the rest of THIS video is worth watching, tho

Hey man like your stuff, I'm 53 years old, I been playing sins high school, love playing for the Christian church 🙏🏼 also dropping beats and write my own music at the studio with my producer, it's always nice picking up different skills, would be cool to find out how to read some notes, so I can change my skills, I will plug in more and see what you got going on, it's always nice to pick up on other skills, thanks for putting it out there, keep up the good work my friend 👍🏽

I'm just starting out and don't even have a kit yet, just a practice pad for now. Trying to find some songs to practice these to but I'm struggling to find any other references of the last 3. Are they generally called something else or could we get a song suggestions list/Anyone have song suggestions? Money Beat and 4 on the Floor are everywhere but We Will Rock You beat I can only find the one song and the last 3, nada when asking the Googs.

Yada

I'm still how every thing works but how do I make my kick pedal bounce?

Time to buy new slippers! 😀

If you double time the "And of 2" beat and play it really fast, you're playing 80% of all modern punk music.

Is this guy kidding?

I think you have a lot of great expertise to share and are obviously very talented..... But geezus dude, can you just land the plane already?!?! These videos would be half the time if you would just get to the point. Try it maybe? Then people like me wouldn't bail a quarter of the way through because you are STILL in your preamble before the actual content. Just sayin....