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These videos always motivate me to go practice. Thanks Marthyn

I wish your videos had subtitles in Spanish, I have a hard time understanding English fluently. At least some of your videos have English subtitles (I don't know if KZfaq does that automatically), but not all. And there I can come to understand much more. But even so, they are very valuable videos, with a lot of information, for people like me who cannot access your course due to economic problems, here in Argentina the price of the dollar is very, very high, or rather our currency ($ peso). It is worth less every day, so it makes it impossible for a lower-middle-class worker to have access to imported things or in dollars. But I hope that one day I will be able to take a course with you. In the meantime, thanks Marthyn for your free videos.

Man this was so interesting! I spent the first 20 years of drumming sitting low, I’ve always been really focused on playing with feel and controlling dynamics and the way I play to make drums sound as nice as possible. I found that sitting low actually gave me more power and volume than sitting high while using proper ankle technique, but the speed was definitely limited to a degree. I’ve only switched to a higher position upon watching eugenes video on the topic of seat height/ playing position and my speed has increased dramatically but I’ve been really focused on maintaining proper technique and as much volume as possible while going up in speed and I think my time sitting low has really helped me with that.

Marthyn, that’s awesome that you noticed this. If we’re going for speed definitely wanna stay working the fast twitch muscle fibers. Timetables are great for control however!

Great video! I feel like you were talking directly to me, thats where am at now, akward motion lol

Really love your technique.. do you have a band..?

Welcome Back Red NB ! JAJAJA .. Excelent Video !!

I started playing drums 1987...never heard of the ankle technique back then :) so this is quite a challenge for me...but i love it. With my right foot its going pretty well, im about 4 weeks into this practice (3 times/week for about 40-45 mins). My left foot is starting to get the drift....but still i cant control it for more then 30 secs. My practice is 4 mins with right foot on a single pedal (no drums) just to practice the beater swing, then switch to the left foot. Then i play on the drums for 4 mins, first right foot, then the left., then i repeat it all again. When i can control both feets...what is my next step? Try to play with both feets at the same time or practice to lower the bpm? Many thanks to all of you.

Okay so my problrm with this is 6 months back you were saying raise your seat height and now you are saying lower it.... whats with the opposing instructions?

All in all wrong color of the glasses.