Beato said the drums were recorded WITHOUT cymbals and hats, and then had them overdubbed after. That, to me is crazy. But if anyone could do it, it's Dave Grohl. Songs for the Deaf is a great album, and I still love No One Knows. Awesome video!

If you wanna go crazy with the herta, invert it. Doing that gives you the ability to accent the 1 and then do the triple after. This is great for nailing a cymbal on each beat and getting the triple inbetween. Sounds great in fills. It lets the cymbal and kick hit hard, and then the tappatatapp adds that spice on the snare and toms. It's also cool if you do kick and cymbal, tappataptap, then snare and cymbal tappataptap and go back and forth. Gives a really powerful halftime feel. Herta is an awesome trick. It has all the mindflipping properties of a triplet fill in 4/4, but it sounds way more impressive.

Very well done there, Mike. "No One Knows" always made me think of "Detroit Rock City" as well. Queens are probably the best straight rock band of the past 25 years imo. That drum fill was instantly addictive when I first heard it. Good job replicating it. 👍👏🤘

Grohl is up there when it comes to amazing drummers of all times. His fills are legendary. One of my favorite drummers just behind Danny Carey.

On the topic of Bleed it was actually one of the guitarists Frederik Thordendal who came up with the various patterns in that song. Originally it was for a practice routine but then he presented it to the rest of the band as a potential song. They had doubts if it was actually doable on kick drums for a while and it ended up taking their drummer Thomas Haake around half a year to learn how to properly play it all the way through. It almost didn't make it onto the album and now it's their most famous song, love that band for how they're always pushing limits.

The drumming on this track is just beautiful. You should do a whole song for this one, it has a lot of incredible fills

Song for the Dead, is my favorite intro on that album, but he’s amazing throughout the entire thing.

🤘🏻🔥 was only thinking about this song yesterday

I love how you can hear elements of different songs when you are working on basic building blocks. Impressive encyclopedic associations.

Brings me back to Maiden. The beginning of Where eagles dare. But what do I know I'm a guitarist!

Thanks for breaking this down 🙏🏼 This truly is a special fill that stands out. I appreciate the deep dive on this!

I love that fill too! Great job!

Another great vid, Mike, this fill got my attention immediately all those years ago and I never looked into it. Thank you!

Every time I hear that song or think of that song it reminds me of “A Day in the Life” by the Beatles .. how they both have this epic build up and then it stops and 1 instrument continues playing by itself.. the Piano 🎹 on “A Day in the Life” and the Bass 🎸 on “No One Knows” 😂

Used to teach young kids, always loved teaching hurtas. Such an easy way for beginners to play awesome fills and build their rhythm

Tomas Haake from Meshuggah spent the guts of 7 or 8 months working on the Bleed hertas before going to the band. It's incredible. Great vid

First time I heard a Herta (or really noticed it) was on A7X' Nightmare, just at the end of the chorus leading in to the verse. I was so determined to learn that and to this day it's still one of my favorite fills. I do them all the time with my hands on the table, knees, or what ever I can drum on 😂

Interesting, definitely going to throw this into my rhythm riffs, big fan of that groove. Loving the drum vids btw! 🤘

It's so cool that you're an excellent drummer - as well as an excellent guitarist. You're like Brian Tichy!!

Great video. You are always such an incredible comunicator

I love that herta/Kashmir connection. Cool thought! Carter Beauford is the king of the herta IMHO.

Just wanna say... love these types of videos from you

Bro your amazing. Thanks to you I just learned that fill.

Very well explained and demonstrated. That particular rudiment is all over music over the years. As soon as you played it at speed I started to really recognize it, though I seem to recall it being used in conjunction with other rudiments in the same fill most of the time. So, you might start with the Herta and switch to a strait triplet or some other rudiment within the same fill and then back to the herta, etc, etc.

Those toms sound soooo good

Kick ass jam room! I love your video games!!

QOTSA mann, what a great band with a ton of killer songs

Saw Dave play this live with Queens of the Stone Age at Glastonbury 02', was just so good!

The first thing I heard was 'Violence' by Blink. Travis uses a herta in he drum intro. 👍

Another great video thank you

You are a fantastic teacher

Great video. I always referred to Grohl as the lord of the 4 piece kit. Such a creative drummer

Manu Ketuche from Peter Gabriel has some cool fills and tom work. I get chills from what he does in 'In your eyes' and 'san jancito' from secret world live, and 'Lay your hands on me' in Live from athens

So glad I came across this, Ive been trying to play that part for a while just like how you did and I too noticed it just didn’t sound right.

Hell yeah, can't get enough of that cowbell!!!

This is a very hard rudiment to perfect. I am still working on it. Doing it like this song calls for is tough....going back and forth from snare to toms and back to snare and a the speed it's played at. Very advanced

Great vid thanks

I was sure you gonna talk about that fill when i saw the thumbnail. Never tried playin that, but now i now what its based on, thanks man

I didn't even knew that was a rudiment! I learned that song by ear and it took some time to learn the fills but I got it and since, I've been adding that same fill to a lot of time of practice. Now that I know that was a rudiment, kinda wanna know what other rudiments I've been playing without knowing. Thx for the video, very explicative, loved it!

Great Tom sounds bro 👌🔥🔥

Perfect deconstruction Sir 👌

When I was a touring drummer with Atomship, I always put the mic stand behind me and to the left. It seemed to be the most out of the way plus I could swing it back and fourth as needed.

I just bought a drum set and earlier today I listened to this song and thinking how cool this fill is. What a coincidence to find your video now. Or wait…😂😮

I will never ever get tired of listening to hertas.

Grohl is what got me into Queens Of The Stone Age. Since than they are my favorite band! Very underrated but those who know definitely know 🤘🤘🤘

Bass line in that song is sick

I want to live in that room of yours!

Very nice breakdown of a simple rudiment that can be used anywhere. Also thanks for mentioning Bleed, I didn’t think that you would know about that song, then again I think that was due to me being ignorant.

Herta!!! Holy crap that helped. Thank you!

I like a herta based fill from a Nightwish song called Stargazers, at the end of the verse. The drummer does four hertas on the snare but as 16th notes, so he ends up filling three beats of the measure and then just does the last beat as regular 16th notes on the toms. It sounds pretty epic.

When I saw the title of this video, I thought "it needs to be that crazy fill from No One Knows". Well done.

What the absolute hell?! 😂I'm so jealous of your uprights in the background. Particularly the MK1 upright.

An important fill to know. I couldn't do it well for a long time because I didn't have strong rudiment skills. The accent placement and speed is what really sells this fill. Usually hard first note accent then putting those first three notes really tight together. Accenting third note flips the feel interestingly. Experiment with the accent. Great vid!

Great stuff man! There's a Satriani tune called "if" and the drums are just amazing all the way through. I'm probably the only guitar player who listens to a Satch tune for the drums! It's fascinating watching someone who is well versed in both instruments. You should check it out. It's slathered in nuance.

Yup, that song hooked me into QotSA because of it reminding me of Detroit Rock City (one of the few Kiss songs I love)

1:59 its similar to the fill Lombardo plays at the end of Read Between The Lies

Nice one.

Great video... An interesting fill is in Nirvana's 'Aneurysm'... At the start when the tom build up is about to finish Dave Grohl does a killer fill into the Heavy part. On first listen it's sort of similar to the fill at the start of 'Enough Space' by Foo Fighters but actually not really in practice. Check it out

2:28 that’s a great way of learning these concepts

The guitar player from messugha came up with the part first. Thomas actually states that riff is what made him develope his playing to what it is today.

MIKEEEE PLEASE DO A ART OF GUITAR VIDEO FOR JOSH HOMME!!

Love the 100,000 years reference - always here for the Kiss deep cuts references!!!

Herta baby; such a boss rudiment! One of my favorite uses is Neil Peart on “Passage to Bangkok.”

I saw Dave grohl in foo fighters back in 2018. It was my last concert before COVID started. And possibly in ghost when they opened for Iron Maiden but it’s not confirmed If Dave was performing then.

Also, can you please do a breakdown of the song Art of Dying by Gojira. I really want to learn how to play this song, and I trust you the most to explain how to play this complicated song. Thanks Mike.

You have to check out the Killing Joke record Dave Grohl played drums on. It’s a killer!

Had no idea you played drums awesome. I’m in reverse drummer all my life and picked up the guitar 8 years ago after Dave explained how he started playing guitar.

2:23 That’s really interesting, because I remember hearing that this was a Lamborghini exhaust. I think it was even Alex who told the story , and I think it was Eddie’s car. But you’re right, those are hertas.

megadeth - "she wolf" has a herta guitar riff chug :) also underrated megadeth song. its great and fun to play :)

The herta just makes those 4 hits sound more musical (to me).

Lamb of god - Engage the fear machine has that herta on the snare at the beginning build up. i noticed it sounded similar when you played it quicker.

Songs for the deaf is a masterpiece that really influenced me.

The grunge era tends to get overlooked as far as musicianship is concerned but there was a bunch of good drummers. Heck, if Dave Grohl is like, the 3rd or 4th best drummer in rock music, you know there’s some talent around. Jimmy Chamberlain (the Smashing Pumpkins) was an absolutely amazing drummer and Matt Cameron is so underrated it’s criminal. Dude played in the oddest time signatures while making it sound totally smooth and Normal.

an arcade with a kiss poster and a drum set would have been my ideal place to live as a kid lol. or now too.

When I started karate out of high school I would do a lot of paradiddle combinations when I would punch. Yup you can throw rudiments into a lot of things.

I always loved Queens of the Stone Age, I didn't know it was Dave Grohl until many years later

The intro to hot for teacher you played was Ed's Ferrari being miced up.

"Cold As Ice" actually has a fill containing "Herta" elements at the end of the middle break at around the 2:25 mark. It's an awesome fill

Speaking of Alex Van Halen, he uses a herta in a fill in the song One Foot Out The Door from Fair Warning that has been one of my favorite films for basically my whole life. I remember practicing it for hours and hours when I was like 12 and couldn't figure it out. Then I took it to my drum teacher and he was like "oh that's easy, it's just a fast herta." Duh! Lol

Wow! I do Herta fills and I didn’t know they were even a real thing!

Fun and relevant fact since you mentioned them a few times - Thomas Haake from Meshuggah counts the Songs For The Deaf album as one of his all time favourite drum performances.

That's some cool stuff you showed us there. The drum lesson wasn't too bad either...

Recently started playing drums and I can't get my head around hertas. Like playing lots of them quickly back to back I really struggle.

I was in the sixth grade parents took me to a kiss concert 1979. an informative in these videos Kick-Ass

muy bueno el ejemplo de Kashmir!!!

To answer your last comment about whether the guitarist or the drummer came up with bleed first, it was the drummer. He was doing a solo at a gig and stumbled on the herta thing. Anyway, Grohl is an absolute fucking animal and everyone knows it

Please keep making QOTSA content and I'll watch it

Whats the name of the Foreigner cover band?

You rule!

Lemme get that Tempest cabinet!!!

Hey the Peter Chris video got my attention I appreciated the way you took up for him or whatever you know. Highlighted this technique. I just wondering if you could do something like that for Metallica's drummer Lars people are saying he sucks suck that's what people say. Thanks for the content

The 3:47 section sounds similar to Frankenstein by Edgar Winter.

It's a herta. I first noticed those from Carter bauford in dmb

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I haven’t seen the video yet, but I’m gonna guess it’s pedalling the kick drum during the snare fill in Teen Spirit. How’d I do?!

How to spot a drummer with classical percussion training from a group of drummers with no classical training? Check the way they hold their sticks :D Percussionists hold their sticks with their palms basically parallel to the snare (maybe a 5-10º angle) much like you see conga players or a basketballer would play, while drummers will have their palms perpendicular to the snare and hi-hat, much like a "karate chop" massage motion. Try it out and let me know which one you think gives you more control (responses will vary). From a muscle, tendon and energy efficiency perspective, I feel like the way most drummers grab their sticks (like the guy in the video) is inefficient since the wrist's range of motion from the highest point to the lowest is of about 90º, whereas the classical way (like the way you dribble a basketball) allows close to 160-180º. Sure you get use to it either way, sure you can do amazing things either way (drummers are amazing, after all!!!), but you're asking your wrists to get used to a motion that is limiting movement to some extent.

When i learned hertas, my drumming really stepped up a level.

@4:12 Has a little bit of Iron Maiden’s Where Eagles Dare to it!!!!

That is the wildest guitar I have ever seen.

Yess, I was also confused with that fill. It's not triplet nor straight 16/4. Thanks to figure it out!