Make sure to follow the full workout video, download the workout clicktrack and guitar pro files here: www.drumtechniqueacademy.net

for the longest time all i ever got from anyone was "just practice youll get better" but youre the only person thats ever gone into this much detail on what muscles to use, or not use, and when to use them. youve helped me so much to correct mistakes ive made for years, and im able to practice longer without pain. im shocked at how quickly im improving because of you. thank you!

Intro reminded me of song from Behemoth - As Above So Below :)

Top quality video and teaching. Your videos are really useful. Thanks for posting and helping people 😊

Been a guitar player since 22 years and now drumming for 5 months and I am so glad I found your videos, Marthyn! I understand a bit better each time how to use my body for drumming. Thank you SO MUCH. Amazing how much your knowledge, tips and ideas help, rock on man \m/

Wow. Your method instantly improved my double bass. I sound like I knowxwhat im doing. Thanx. Love the Teaching.

I’ve been watching Marthyn’s videos here on KZfaq for a couple years now. Besides the amazing things he has done for the drumming community as a whole , which I have probably thanked him for several times already. I just can’t get enough of his accent! LMAO 😂 it’s like you have your own little personal “Drumming Einstein” to give you tips and reminders as to which muscles you should or shouldn’t be using. I don’t know why, but it still cracks me up every time! Much love from Canada!

Marthyn, you're always be my foot technique hero ❤️ Keep safe and blasting! 🤟

Very detailed, precise, helpful and inspiring :D

Exactly the same problem I’m working on at the moment! -thanks man!

Thank you!!!🤘😁🤘

Cool that i created a similar practice method by myself, but this helps me with the details and precisions i was missing

Intro is as above so below - behemoth 💪🏽

I really gotta go check out that website and find out what kind of personal training there are available. I have followed you for years, seen all your videos and really wanna take the next step into the drumming.

I realised after being on and off focus with training the longest time of my life, that I will only use my calves for every tempo. The only thing I change is the motion. On slow tempos till 100 bpm I am using a big ankle motion and the faster it gets the smaller get the motions. I tried every technique there starting with shins and hip flexor. With the hip flexor I started to have serious backpain after some months. I am 6,4 tall so after years of fucking up I realised that the sheer weight of my legs are enough to get a proper beaterswing and on high tempos when I switch to only ankle motion I leave my leg just resting on the pedalboard and raise my heels.

The way I worked on this (heel up like Simon) and I have a long way to go was by playing Blood of Kingu by Vader again and again... it has a faster part that gives you a good break and then its back to the full leg motion. I'm trying to go to flat foot, my left leg just has to do that for some reason so at the moment I'm practicing that on the floor mostly at work. People in the office know what I'm doing but it looks strange all the same ;) Edit: oh yeah moving the seat up a little helped me too.

I had a similar problem a long time ago at a slightly faster tempo (150-165bpm), what I ended up doing was practice the song "Sail into the black" by Machine Head. I skip 4 minutes in and there's a good double bass section of 12 note groupings (164 bpm) that I kept practicing over and over again.

Hey Marthyn please invite Kevin Foley and I want to learn his foot technique.This video also is very important thanks

Great video I'll try this tommorow Btw marthyn have you dealt with the issue of not being able to control the pedals when using a e-kit pad? I started using kd10 a month back and I have almost lost my foot control which I had developed on bass drum. Also there was a 5month break where I didn't have access to a drumkit but I was air drumming and tapping feet on the floor every now and then. Thanks!

hey bro please please suggest me some routine for single bass workout

please tell me which pedals are better for practicing? the drive is soft or hard

My trasition from hips to ankle starts at 155 to 175 after that im fine so my guitar player writes at 170 so im very very not good with that i been trying to srink my transition tempos by extending my hip speed and slowing my ankle technich but its been very hard i dont know what to do about it

Is it work on swivel..?

666samus need this video tutorial....

When i practice on my pad its running pretty well but on the Real kit im stuck..it feels so umcomfortable big Problem is that nobody can help u through this 😥 i d say that pedal settings and seat are more important

Hi. I'm Chad. Been watching from day one. I want to say that I know I can't or won't affect your life, but I can say that you have positivity affected mine. You are the most even keel and personality consistent musician/person I've never met. But feel as though I have. I love how you have taken an approach of being the master of your craft. That you are well aware that mastering the craft of double bass drumming with all the new and not so new yet new techniques will be filled with hours of videos that most will feel like not watching or watching completely. Taking nuggets from someone who has been doing this at it's elite level before there was a platform like KZfaq and still doing it while using KZfaq as an extension of your ability to teach. I could have been as good as the best of the best. Fastest of the fast. Technical and precise. I have come close to playing at the level of a pro extreme metal drummer. I just allowed bad decisions and the continued use of bad choices to get in my way over and over. I love the musicality that just the additional kick brings to any type of music. With two all is possible. With one. All is unattainable. It just can not be done. Example: Nobody is going to play let's go with , Becoming, Pantera's Vinnie Paul's masterpiece of footwork in my youths opinion, without two kicks. Not happening. It has never made sense to me that I know drummers that will not even attempt to learn a double bass drum set. I appreciate your time brother. You put in a lot.