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I love that Andrea Mattia plays using the traditional grip (only one of the bunch).

I've been playing 34 years. Have basically quit 'cause most musicians are assholes. Hard to find motivation.

1:17 THIS exactly describes my drumming. I can do some fancy chops on the pad as warm up but dont use them on actual jams since the songs dont call.for them.

Started drumming at 48. Love the instrument. Never played music before. I have day job, real life committments and responsibilities and other endeavours which are important to me. Within these constraints I want to be the best drummer that I could possibly be and reach a level where I can jam with real live musicians, not just by myself with headphones. I would even love to play in public some day with a live audience - ie. to play as musician, not as someone who is just practicing. Those are the realies, the ambitions and the constraints.

Great topic. I have had most success telling myself musicality over everything. I have an easier time playing more naturally in time cleanly when I dont over think it and just feel the flow of the beat I made.

1:36 I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WERE JUST TOLD TO TAP OUR HEELS N TOES ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT LOL plus i always hated how wed play really hard on the pad then soft AF on the snare n how badly translated it felt at times, like i can play softer on the pad now but it just feels weird still. even stuff like practicing rimshots while playing wilcoxon etc. for example

ho boy i needed this thanks nate

"good enough to enjoy it..." Many, many, many! years ago, in high school, I was 'good enough' to play in a "rock/cover band" and actually have gigs and save my sanity. Since then, (60 years!) I've lost some / gained some - but always the key has been: "good enough to enjoy it." Great 'bottom line,' Nate. Thanks for posting.

Awesome lesson!

Cool interview. I very much enjoyed it. Thank you.

I don’t even know what boring looks like anymore. I don’t even like the word “bored”. When I hear someone say they are bored I feel they have quit thinking or trying. It’s not the situation, it’s their lack of thinking or effort. To think someone is boring is not looking at them deeply enough. If someone is truly considered boring by most everyone I bet they have a dark basement full of things nobody would associate with them. There is a story behind everything.

I came from a marching background so by the time I got to kit there was little worry about the hand technique I had from many many hours and the pad, a tenor pad, and various instruments. It really freed me up to focus on improving on moving around the kit, but having played tenors helped with that too. I would say a tenor pad is better practice for a kit than a normal one if it’s something available to you

Nate wood rules!

7:22 that's Ash Soan!

Of course technique is important…..its mechanical engineering just like piano finger and hand technique. Technique is especially. Important for jazz players. As long as it gets you there and produces the musical effect.

If it is a hobby. Do not forget to have fun when practicing.

You said stay tuned, I bounced, long video, you could have made 1 minute. The bottom like is stick control depends on hand technique. Accented notes, are from about 8" above the surface, ghosts are about half inch above the surface. The pad gives a quiet option to learn and master control, thats it. ty (which also requires hand technique).

wow, once I saw how rough your first takes sounded (although technically correct), I got a whole other level of appreciation for how refined Richard Spavens playing actually is. It's so tasty!

We had someone in performance seminar in college who practiced something so much on a pad that he couldn’t play it on a drum. We referred to him as a drum head. Anyway, he whined until he was allowed to play the piece in the seminar… on a pad. <sigh>

He’s riiiight 34:26. I’ll be 60 next year and I’m actually waaaay better than I was 30 years ago. As a matter of fact I can play everything I couldn’t play back then. But now, I’m just way more tasteful and I’ve developed understanding that many time less is more and if it doesn’t serve the music I ain’t doing my job.

No…I get my best views when I play pocket. Chops gets their attention, pocket keeps their butts shaking and keeps their attention. Chops gets you in the door, pocket keeps you in the room. And I’m the same. People ask me what I do and all it is singles doubles and paradiddles. And try to make them all sound the same. And practice them with a light touch to a moderate metronome tempo. Over time you just(eventually)get better.

I've never played a single song with rim shot consistently on every hit. Consistent and stable with the sound doesn't fit with dynamic, because someone playing FFF all the time, overbashing, is always at full volume and doesn't care about dynamic just by the fact that he is playing metal. Dynamics mean that you don't play the same volume consistently dude, that's what makes dynamics drummers so much more interesting, compare to someone that sound like a drum machine, precise, solid, but no dynamics or care about real art. There is a difference between simple mind drummer that goes physical, energy and consistant, compare to a drummer that care about art, creativity, music, dynamics, and above all, not stuck with agressiveness and violence just because you can hit this instrument hard.

I was wondering if you can deconstruct the grove from Vic firth spotlight, it’s so solid

There is a reason that Jeff Porcaro is the most recorded drummer in history.

Fill-osophy. Love

Great lesson. I’ve been overthinking heel-down technique way too much, gonna give this a try.

Click what card where?

So making sense. 👍🥁

Fortunately I am in a situation in which I am at liberty to play my drum set at any time. So the practice pad just sits there… gathering dust… bereft… slowly desiccating in the dry New Mexico heat. I practice all hand technique, and everything else, on the drums.

Ayyyyy he used my footage wooooo!

Dynamics don’t matter as much on mic’ed sets.

I have one great reason to enjoy my practice pad and that is because it had been my nephew's and then when he stopped playing his parents sold his kit and he began using his pad as a coaster 😒 one day I came over ready to show him what I had learned on the kit and I learned of the fate of both the kit and pad. I then recommended that he give me that pad and I will give him as many coasters for his drinks he may need! 😂

I play drums using the Earth's magnetic field baby!!!

❤ I am zn older player. I respect the great drummers. It is not easy to learn, vmbut consistency creates more fun to enjoy. Techniques I feel is truthfully a basic importance...whether serious player or not. To at at very least not emba3yourself or a band....excercises takes diligence...something I am working on. Years of appreciation of music is also trying to learn to do it right. thank you for the lessons, Happy drumming😊

My biggest obstacle as I got older was being too stiff . Pad work helped a lot . “ Rudiments are as relevant today as you want to make them “ .

i have to duct tape all of my stands down to the floor because every time i play they either fall over or they just break

What the fuck is a drop catch? Watched the video, still couldn't tell you

I have an electric kit but I can't always play it so my pad is my back up. I don't get to play a real kit so I'm not as good as I'd like to be 😜🤘🏻 great video. I think pad time is really useful but it doesn't compare to getting on the kit 🙏🏻🤘🏻😜 keep playing everyone

To this day no one knows what’s goin on in his ear buds… a book about gardening? Fantasy future apocalypse novel? A metronome? A deep voice reading playboy articles? We’ll never know.

That trash can lid you’re slaying is the most bop choice ever. This is why we can’t ever agree on stupid words for cymbals. Well I honk its earth dry overtone with pressing grapes….

It’s a real joy to see how your playing has developed both in technique and feel. Bravo and congratulations . Thought provoking content as always too. Thanks.

Practice slow first, gain rythym, and increase speed---then do whatever you like. No secret. Takes years

É aí que você se engana... eu nunca aprendi a tocar bateria...

Nate you (& hopefully I) are definitely improving! Some of the inserts of your playing look effortless although quite complex. Congratulations for the results on all of your hard work. 🙂😉

"The issue comes because time is finite." Truer words have never been spoken. Also, attention is finite. Good stuff Nate, I am still dissecting my hand technique and various influences such as Gordy and DFC. Thanks

A friend of mine is a pad specialist. It's exactly as you said, if you see him play the pad, his technique couldn't be better. But the moment he sits in the kit, he plays like an intermediate drummer at best (excluding fast chops that he adds recklessly).

Its always about balence. Too much of one can take away from the other , so balence should be maintained in both technique and practical playing. You hit it on the head when you pointed out that we all have limited time , so, balence. Great video, keep it up.

the video starts at 4:55

Broooo that is not what masacote means at all. If someone told you that, they were absolutely messing with you