Dare you to pull out Level Four at a gig. I’ll need video evidence.

I love how you put your practicing into the video itself, It really helps people get a look at what it takes to actually nail tough skills like these. Also in a world where it's so easy to quantize/sample/replace/over-produce audio, I really appreciate you staying true and honest. Cheers Brandon!

I love how you show your own difficulties to learning these, as a beginner this is encouraging me to keep working when it's hard, a reminder that everyone has to go through this.

12:49 *laughing at self* “Oh f*#! me dude” 😂😂😂 That pure piece of content showing your true personality is why I love this channel so much! Hahaha

I found your channel about week ago, and i'm very happy, becouse you have very great lessons, but not for begginers. All youtube drum lessons are almost for begginers. In this challen i can learn so many things... Thank you! (Andd sorry for bad english, i am not from english - language country).

I've thought about this many times. The concepts are there in our minds, but they're so hard to implement! It will literally take a full 8 hours a day for a number of years to get as fluent as Matt Garstka! That's exactly what he did! Every subdivision and their displacements are so second nature to him, he can create all manner of grooves on the fly!! This is just my conjecture. I'm basing this statement on the sole fact that when I finally understood a concept so simple as triplets and six stroke rolls, my chops and fills actually improved because they came more naturally! It was that time when they became second nature that I found myself really improving and getting creative. It took many hours to get to truly understand them, I can only imagine the hours spent by Matt. For Matt, he's reached a point where he understands it all! All he relies on is unbound creativity! His countless hours, determination, and persistence are responsible for what brought about what you see in him to this day! Pure orchestration! He has ALL the necessary skills to do whatever his creative mind conceptualizes!

All the gavin harrison book are about this kind of thing. And they are REALLY difficult. Great work!

Brother, big thanks! Shouts from snowy Russia!

Dude I wooed with you once you got through it all. I love that you're showing the process of getting there. So much fun and so inspiring, I gotta go play the drums NOW! More please!

Genuinely well done man! Super helpful exercise to hear different subdivisions and hear the click in a different way.

Gonna work on this, been really enjoying your videos over the past couple of years, love from the UK!

Watching you actually doing your practice is very insightful. Keep it up man some great videos! :)

Dope as hell dude. Thank you for sharing your practice time with us!

Brandon! Bro! Thank you! Drumming requires so many thousands of hours of tedious, hard, repetitious work, and sometimes... ya just don't wanna. This is such a great channel, because you have become, essentially, a practice buddy, someone with whom to commiserate, and ultimately to work through the challenge with, which makes it easier to make the choice to do the hard work. Well done!

I watched the whole thing, I loved watching you practice and figure it out.

Love the honesty in this! Keep making videos please. :)))

Great video man!! I've been waiting years to practice this displacement exercise!! thanks.... greeting from Chile!

Your listening skills and overall musical awareness just went up in one day. That makes you a better drummer, but most importantly, a better MUSICIAN. Training yourself to hear the relationship between what you are playing and what´s being played around you will help you lock in better and serve the music in any genre. Your number 1 task as a drummer is to provide a steady pulse in relationship to what the other musicians are playing. Feeling and stating that pulse depends greatly on your ability to adapt your beat placement to what you are listening to ( bass lines, guitar riffs, keyboard parts etc). When you displace your beat, you are back in the driver´s seat as far as CREATING THE PULSE, because when the click is on quarter notes you are just FOLLOWING the pulse that the click is providing for you. Keep practicing this at least 5 minutes a day, KZfaq drummers might not notice, but MUSICIANS will, specially on the bandstand! Peace&Groove!

Appreciate you showing the process of you learning this as well, instead of just magically being the best drummer in the world like everyone else on KZfaq.

Duude, i love your vids and lessons man, not only funny but also helpful and you are a great teach.

I love the way you do your videos, it is such normal, you know, the mistakes you make, when you hassle about it :D

The best class! Thank so much!

This video gets me motivated every time thanks dude

You have no idea how helpful it was to see such a solid player stop and work through this kind of concept. Great reminder that we never graduate from practice

For the "e" you can try a phrase of 3 16th notes(Ta Ki Ta) or (radio) on count 4 of the bar you're trying the switch from. a phrase of 5 16th notes (Ta Ti Ki Ta Dum) or (university) for the "a". Great lesson as always Brandon.

This was WILD man! Good work

Awesome as always! Doing this live, the band first would be lost, then when you don't make back the way to the 8th yourself they will be pissed! 😁

great videos and very original

Dude)) this was awesome !!

You are one funny dude!! Love your honesty.

12:47 that moment when you realize... hahaha

Why is my metronome acting so weird?

very interesting and informative.

SO GOOD!

Great video, I love things I never can use

Thank u that’s definitely advanc 6/4 I believe it I’m going use it a lot

What still blows my mind is Matt was 21 when he did clinic displacement

Awesome 🙌❤️ dude

You’re insane man!! I’m at 50 bpm on the last one

I love groove scribe is so useful

Good job man!:-)

Oh wait, you mean where the click stays 🤔 You’re killin it bro 🤘

Great!

U go buddy !

Pretty amazing video! Thanks, I have a question: how do you do the "bar repeat" option on Groove scribe?

Dude you got a lot of personality. Most KZfaq musicians are pretty stale. Good shit!!!

groove scribe is the shit ! thanks Mike Johnston !

Frank Briggs has a great approach to this. He uses a 3 and 5 note groupings to displace the downbeat to the "a" or the "e". The idea is to "feel" the new downbeat and use the regular click as your checkpoint, otherwise is never gonna sound grounded. Good stuff for your ears!

Great stuff. Very similar to what the world's top marching bass drummers do with splitting 32 notes and stuff. At that point though it's all muscle memory.

Aweh bru! Lekker video

I've been trying to learn displacement for a long time now, thanks for putting the notation! Love level 4 though haha ! kick click snare click kick OwO You suffered just for us!

6/4 advance I ve got my groove now .ممنون

awesomeeeeee

Garstka is probably wrangling his ol drumstick to this

oooooooooooh. ..... aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh !!!! yea, i tried it many times according to his video ... craziness being aware of mental health !!!!! nastiness ... but love it!!!!

I like your intro its so cool

The struggle is REAL. I get this frustrated just learning how to play the 2 16 notes at the end of the bar lol

Dude! You are going to use it if you create a band and compose for this kind of shit. That's what make Matt garska so fuckin good. Imagine yourself in tour doing 2 or 3 sets of 1h30m weekly of this displacement modulation polirhytmics oddtime shit, plus the rehearsals, plus the writing, plus recording sessions, and couple years of studying this material. Boom, there you have it: an INSTAGRAM STAR

I love the dude in the back at 9:55 and all he can say is, "dude... what???"

You're such a funny guy!! Where you find all those energy??

8:35 no you explained very well

It took me over 3 hours just on the 8th note 😢

Bro what’s the groove software for writing down the musical notes?

hahaha this is very cool man!

I like the triplets because it's a polymeter, and metal has a lot of polymeters

Bro 😎🔥

yo man check out gavin harrison’s rhythmic illusions if you haven’t already. also, for triplet displacement (the third one you did) when i originally was trying to learn it, it really helped for me to count out load the triplets while playing (tri-pul-it) and it helped me a lot more, not really much for you because you got it right away, but for anyone trying to learn it.

Whats super funny is I find the displacement on the e to be easy to catch onto, however that first one really throws me for a loop. The bass just siunds so strange on the reset lol Ive found it helps to basically "upstroke" when switching for the dp in the first segment

I've done the 16th displacement a few times and yeah, the bass player changed the downbeat almost all the time. They thought I was screwing up. Sometimes you gotta warn people.

Try displacing everything but leave 2 and 4 on the snare....This get's fun!

Good

yo hi brandon its leo!!! nice vid. im also still waiting tobe in one. its gonna happen!!!! ANYWAYS.... have a good rest of ur day!!! bye!

Groove inception lol ♥️♥️🕶️

Now add 1/4 hat steps to them all to match the metronome😅

here's a level up: do it with yourself singing the click instead of using one :p Also notice how Mr. Garstka threw in a left hand hihat on the quarter note clicks in the sixteenth note displacements, that can help you keep it super precise. Hope this helps!

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Groove inception 😂😂😂

If I did that on a gig, it will be me that gets DISPLACED.

👍👍👍

i laughed so hard at 11:04 :D

*N I C E*

You can see the counting facial expression patterns start to set in

Dude check out future sounds permutations sets

There was so much more on that clinic he never posted. I lost my footage but he destroyed that kit.

What app you using on ur Mc?

I have ben entertained. Thanks for your suffering

What’s the meaning of tat on your wrist? Just curious

What kind of camera are you using Bro’??

Can you call it as a syncopation?

No, thank yewwww sir. So here’s a thing I’ve been trying to find out - What style of music exactly would you call that outro track? I need a more specific genre than ‘soul’ or ‘groove’ or ‘r&b’ if there is one. I think of it as: it’s 1978, you’re driving a green Lincoln Continental with wire wheels, wearing a fur coat and a hat with a feather in it. There may or may not be coke in the glove compartment. What do you call the music on the radio? It’s a certain kind of funky, grooving soul music but I’d love to narrow it down to a term I can search lol.

I am glad that I am not the only one that has the crazy internal monologue trying to rationalize why this is fucked and I need to do something else. :-p. But yeah a lot harder than it looks.

This stuff is hard to get, but it is a fun challenge .albeit aggravating to get there . But you’re correct you’ll never use it, well maybe if the band knows it’s coming, or you’ve worked it into a solo. this is the kind of thing you just don’t throw in there.. Imagine sitting in with a band that doesn’t use a Click and you go to modulating / displacing the 16th note triplet on them ... 😳 boy that get everyone’s attention... and not in a good way.

2:16

I'm a simple man, I see Matt Garstka in the title, I like. Man, I think he's been missing in action quite some time now. Maybe creating a new record?

There's a lot of that in Pantera songs!

What you from s.a????

A better way to look at this is to see it as displacing the click rather than displacing the musical information.

I don’t think it’s supposed to be used on a gig, with exceptions of course. The idea is that if you can play all these metronome games it drastically increases your ability to feel time

It’s not too difficult once you start understanding how it feels

15:50 jajajajaja