132 Live Lesson 15 Heavy Metal Drumming

FreeDrumLessons.com Live Heavy Metal Drumming & Blast Beats Lesson #15 Sheet Music Included Featuring Sean Lang With Jared Falk & Dave Atkinson Overview by Hugo “Janado” going from the high tom to the mid tom and ending on the floor tom.com Live Heavy Metal Drumming & Blast Beats In this live drum lesson. You start on the snare and then move around the toms. To add more intensity to the fill. fills and blast beats. because you get more for less by splitting four strokes between the hands and the feet. play quarter notes on the bass drum. 1 . The strokes on the bass drum can be done with either a single or a double pedal. Sean’s unique way of playing this style of music makes this a truly unique and interesting lesson. If you start practicing this at a very low speed and gradually increase tempo as you get really comfortable with it. you can check Sean play to songs “This Ghost of Ours” and “As the Dead Lead the Dead” from his band First Reign and also t o Amon Amarth’s “Freewill Sacrifice”. You just play 16th notes around the drum kit. this will be an easy fill to get into a nice metal speed. who don’t necessarily like the heavy-metal genre. Usually in metal drumming. Give this lesson a try. and besides learning about heavy metal drumming. Jared & Dave had Sean Lang from the band 'First Reign' out to discuss heavy metal drumming and blast beats. you won’t hear this fill at lower speeds but rather at speeds between 180 and 200 bpm. Even drummers. will definitely have an appreciation for Sean and his skill on the kit. your hands never really get tired and neither do your feet. Heavy Metal Fills Fill #1 This is the most basic metal fill of all. This way. Fill #2 This is a super common fill in metal.FreeDrumLessons. like Sean showed in the last two fills. and instead of using your left hand on the mid tom you go for the floor tom. these two next fills are ideas on how to make your metal fills a little more dynamic. with a single or double bass pedal. Fill #4 Fill #5 and this one are not stock metal fills. Starting on the second quarter note you do two bass drum strokes. If you add cymbal strokes instead of drum strokes. making it a little chaotic and at the same time very cool. It’s going to start with your right hand on the snare drum. then you follow this with a left hand double stroke on the snare. which can be played with a single bass drum pedal or a double pedal and then one more right hand on the snare.Lesson #15 – Heavy Metal Drumming & Blast Beats Fill #3 This fill is a variation of fill #2. Metal drummers have the habit of trying to play single strokes as fast as they can or splitting a fill between hands and feet. you will offset the sound of the fill. You end this fill with two extra bass drum strokes and a final stroke between one hand on the snare and the other crashing a cymbal. instead of the right hand on the snare you go to the mid tom. It is good to try different approaches and not do the same thing over and over again. add two bass drum hits and 2 . try to spread your single stroke rolls through the entire kit and see what cool variations you can get out of this fill. You start by doing a 16th note single stroke roll with the hands on the high tom. Fill #5 This fill involves a six stroke roll which is: RLLRRL. You start this fill by playing a bass drum hit at the same time as your right hand crashes a cymbal. In this one you still split the pattern between your hands and feet but with a different feel to it. Once again. So. followed by four 16 th notes played on the mid-tom. but this time. Next we are going to use the left hand on the high tom followed by two more bass drum hits and one more left hand stroke on the same tom. So. try to use different sound sources to get different ideas with this pattern. You can play this fill between any drum and cymbal in the drum set. For the rest of the fill you just have to repeat the same sticking you have done previously. Try to use cymbals or other sounds that you have on your drum kit. a right hand double stroke on the high tom and one final left on the snare drum to finish the six stroke roll. followed by two bass drum hits. Then. since booth hands do the same amount of work. When you get really fast you can use a double pedal. start by playing in unison with your right hand on the snare and the left hand on the hi-hat and follow that with another right hand stroke on the snare. If you look closely. For this one it is a lot easier to play it with a double bass pedal because you end up by doing a group of three hits with the feet.FreeDrumLessons. While playing this beat you have to be careful not to flam the two strokes that are played at the same time.com Live you are basically ready to start all over again with the same pattern. So. With this approach you will be able to relive tension between your right and left hands. So. but this time starting on beat three. With these beats you won’t have the problem of getting tired for overworking a hand. In the lesson. Beat #1 This is a kind of blast beat cheat. which is what is normally done when playing a blast beat. since these beats are usually played with single stroke rolls. after blasting for two minutes straight. so you can expect very unique blast beats from Sean. but it is possible to achieve the same effect with a single pedal. and the left hand on the snare drum. The usage of these rudiments is not a normal procedure on blasting. Sean starts by showing a very traditional blast beat that consists of a single stroke roll played between the right hand on the ride cymbal. Now you just have to combine that with your double or single pedal. because they will make you spread the work between the two hands. Afterwards. These beats are based around the Swiss Army Triplet and the Flam Tap. rather than just doing a single stroke between them. Blast Beats Sean will be going through some of his weird creations regarding blast beats. when you go to perform a roll on the toms. if you flamed the unison stroke played between the 3 . you won’t be tired and can perform the roll effortlessly. and before teaching his creations. you switch you hands and play in unison with your right hand on the hi-hat and the left hand on the snare following it with another left hand snare hit. because it is the combinations of a different sticking with both hands. which is accompanied by a hit on the bass drum. You start by repeating beat #2 four times in a row. with this one you start by playing blast beat #1 two times. play the first stroke between the two hands at the same time. this way you will be playing a pattern in 7/8. Beat #2 This is a kind Here you have another beat that makes use of another rudiment. if you played a right hand flam or a left hand flam. Then you just add bass drum hits played with both feet or with a single pedal. You can combine them to create blasts with accents in odd time signatures. You follow this combination with another right hand and a left hand on the snare. you can combine them to create different rhythms. After this you just have to add bass drum strokes. Beat #3 After learning the two first beats. Then follow this with two repetitions of beat #1. 4 . With this combination you achieve a kind of groovy feel while playing a blast beat. In this case the swiss army triplet. you keep a constant stream of hits on the snare while keeping time on the hi-hat. that is. So.Lesson #15 – Heavy Metal Drumming & Blast Beats two hands. After getting comfortable with the hand pattern just add in the bass drum hits. Once again. Beat #4 This is another combination of the swiss triplet blast with the flam tap blast. we are not going to flam it like we would do on the actual rudiment. This way. then when following it with a single stroke you would actually be playing the flam tap rudiment. with the left hand on the snare and the right hand on the hi-hat. following it with beat #2. but instead. Think about this. and drummers can play a lot better if they can hear themselves. Then work on getting the pattern really tight and solid. and just becomes this big rumble. Bass Drum Triggers There are a lot of misconceptions about triggers especially on YouTube. So. Speed Tips Everything that you play fast. making it that much easier to perform any type of quick motions around the drum set. time and practice will give you speed. really slow and with a metronome. Then you just have to add the bass drum hits with a single or double pedal. a vocalist can sing a lot better if he can hear himself sing. Also. following it by playing blast beat #1 for the same number of repetitions. Triggers do not make you faster on the drums.FreeDrumLessons. Another thing that helps you on getting speed around the kit is conservation of energy. A good place to start is maybe find the maximum speed to which you can play a beat. to make it possible for you to have the necessary control speed and stamina to perform these types of double bass runs. You start by playing blast beat #2 two times. you have to strive for less movement also. but with metal. This can be achieved by doing fewer movements and also by developing your writs and fingers. and bump up the speed when you are really mastering the groove at that speed. But how slow is slow? It depends on what you are practicing really. Another thing you can do to optimize your movements is to keep all of your cymbals and drums as close as possible to you. which will create a groove in 10/8. but practicing double bass will. Usually this is not a problem for drummers. Remember this. that eventually when you get the kicks going faster. their sound just gets lost in the mix. as you gain more and more speed your technique will have to change from big leg movements to small movements that are mainly done by your feet. you have to play slow first. regarding volume. without it falling apart and just go a little bit bellow that. If you really want to execute fast double bass rolls. at 5 . you have so many sound sources competing with one another.com Live Beat #5 This last beat is another combination of beats #1 and #2. so you know exactly where your hits are. it becomes hard for the drummer to determine were the actual hits are being played.Lesson #15 – Heavy Metal Drumming & Blast Beats certain speeds. With triggers. triggers are just a way of a drum to monitor his bass drum hits when he is going really fast and also to allow the bass drum hits to cut through the mix. In essence. which is a staple of this genre of music. you get a really definitive attack. 6 . and be heard and have definition. to which triggers are good for. Another thing. is to give the bass hits that really punchy and “clicky” sound. Copyright © 2010 Railroad Media.Metal Fills 1) œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ 2) œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ 3) œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ z œ 4) œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ 5) z œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ z œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ FreeDrumLessons.com .com Live Broadcast Metal Drumming With Sean Lang . Inc.All Rights Reserved .FreeDrumLessons. . FreeDrumLessons.com Live Broadcast Metal Drumming With Sean Lang .com .All Rights Reserved . 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