How to drum In Time
Building Your Internal Clock - Drum Lesson (DRUMEO)
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hey invoice Jared here and today I want
to talk about one of the most important
aspects of being a drummer and that is
building your internal clock or keeping
time as drummers it's our job to keep
time and keep the band held together you
definitely cannot rely on guitar players
to do that and so what I've got for you
guys is a few things to download so
right below this video you'll be able to
click the link and go and download the
loops okay because we have metronome
loops prepared for you and these loops
will have like either 2 bars of
metronome and then 2 bars of no
metronome or 4 bars of metronome and 4
bars of no metronome and we have it at a
bunch of different tempos okay so it's a
little bit bigger of a file but you can
go ahead and download those and that's
we're gonna be using as the resources
for this lesson ok and so what I did in
the intro there was I played 4 bars with
the click so just got locked in and in
the quick drop so for 4 bars and that's
where I have to hold it together there's
nothing else there it's just myself and
so on the intro you heard sometimes I
was late sometimes I was early and
that's because this is something I'm
still developing and the longer the
spans are like 4 or 8 bars the harder it
is it's really really hard especially
when it gets slower and so that's what I
want to kind of go over with you guys
now and hopefully I'm gonna fail hard
and feel fast and you guys can kind of
see me trainwreck and hopefully you get
a feel for how to practice this stuff ok
so let's just do two bars of click and
then two bars of no click and we're
going to do this at 80 beats per minute
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okay so I have tailed pretty fast but
you can see what that does right it
forces you to really really concentrate
on playing perfect time without the aid
of a metronome without the aid of a loop
or without the aid of other musicians
there and you'd be surprised at how much
this can help you and how much you might
stink at it right now and that's what
happened to me multiple times and so
it's kind of a wake up call and just
like you know get get in with it you
know get you need to be able to play
proper time okay so I'm going to fail
again for you guys now and we're going
to show you four bars on four bars no
click and we're gonna do it again at 80
beats per minute which is a little bit
slower and I'm probably going to fail
the first try but we'll see how it goes
you
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so you're constantly testing yourself
every four bars and that's once in one
of the best ways you can develop your
internal clock and you get better and
better at it and you find if I was to
play you know 80 BPM for 20 or 30
minutes straight you know by the end of
that 20 or 30 minutes I'm going to be on
another level because we'll be that much
more comfortable with that tempo and
it'll be that much more internalized and
so with all these these tempos we have
given you you can just go ahead and
download and use them all you know all
the way from I believe it 60 up to
somewhere like 160 or 180 somewhere
within there and so you have lots of
different tempos to choose from and try
and get comfortable with all of them
you'll be so so glad you did
and I'm sorry if I made mistakes here
you're like oh he shouldn't make
mistakes and put it in video that's just
the way it goes I'm showing you guys how
I practice this kind of stuff and so
mistakes are gonna happen and that's
totally cool I'm not just gonna put up
this perfectly polished video like I'm
just the god of keeping time on the
drums were just the best in the world
I'm not I'm still practicing like crazy
still trying to get better at it and
that's just the way it is and so you
know hopefully for you it might go
better than for me it might go worse but
regardless just really focus on
developing a solid sense of time
I'm also you guys might have seen this
package just kind of sitting over here
all by its lonesome this is Michael
calicos drumming system like is my
teacher still to this day I took used to
take a lot more private lessons from him
haven't been able to lately but it's
like a 20 DVD 21 CD 5 workbook set you
get all this ship to door plus full
online access and we recently just got
it back in stock it was sold out for for
a couple months almost it's ridiculous
and now it's back and so just go ahead
and click the link right below this
video and you can get taken to the
website and you can check out more on
this package just it's an awesome set of
lessons that I know you guys are gonna
love because it basically includes a
bunch of tools just like this you know
the more tools you have in your toolbox
as a drummer the better off you're going
to be when you get to a gig and you need
to do a certain job and pull out the
tool
done and so this thing is great for that
and Michael McHale is an awesome teacher
so go ahead check that out I know you
guys are absolutely going to love it and
I'll see you in the next video
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