hi my name is Marthyn Jovanovic I'm a drum teacher and in this video I'm gonna
be reacting to and analyzing a live drum cam video from francesco paoli drummer of
fleshgod apocalypse playing the song the violation before we start out I want
to give a big shout out to Ian and Noel from sick Drummer magazine this live drum
cam video can be found on their YouTube channel which I'm going to list below in
the description they have been doing a lot for this drumming community so make
sure to check out the YouTube page follow them and also check out their
home page as well which I'm going to list in the description as well alright
that's it let's start now with the violation
all right let's talk about one thing that's really interesting when it comes
to this band this band consists of vocalist who is also playing guitar
second guitar play a bass player piano keyboard player and the drummer and an
orchestra in the background one thing that's not that easy is to write drum
parts for a band like that because you always have to keep in mind that you
want to push the band it's still a metal band so you want blastbeats and double
bass in there but still you have to leave some extra space especially for the
orchestra and in this special part right now this intro blast beat sequence one
thing that francesco is doing is that he is with his right he's playing a
traditional blast beat but his right hand the accents he's not following the
guitar player he's not following the bass or the vocals he's following the
orchestra it works out great it sounds great but it's not that easy to play so
many accents in between the blast beat and keeping the left hand
who's playing he's playing an alternate blast beat to left hand is playing off beat
to keep the left hand steady as well at the same time
all right let's talk about his blastbeats for a bit man francesco is
playing a regular blast beat right left right left
he's always playing right-hand lead so the right hand is playing on the ride
for example the left is always playing offbeat on the snare and all accents in
between are also performed with the right hand as soon as he switches to a
bomb blast which he is performing right now his right hand switches to the snare
drum he's playing on the beat double bass sixteenth note underneath so right hand
is playing eighth notes on the snare double bass sixteen notes underneath and
he's playing the accents with the left hand
he's using pearl eliminator pedals
since he's been playing double bass for so long fast double bass 16th notes the
song is at around 270 ppm let's talk about his foot technique for a bit you
can see that for the fast parts he's using the heel toe technique in the last video I
already talked about two different ways on how to be able to perform the heel
toe technique one is that your heel is also placed on the foot board so are you
playing heel toe on the foot board or the second way just like francesco does it
in this video slide your foot back on the foot board your heel is right behind
the heel plate of your pedal and then you're playing like this left foot
as well so here's some advice if you want to start out with the heel toe
technique at first when you start out you have to decide if you want to place
your whole foot on the front part of the foot board like this or slide it back
like this then the next step would be to work slowly with each food separately so
right foot left foot once you got that down split the doubles between one hand
and one foot at a time so in this example my left hand is gonna play a double
followed by a double with my right foot
do this for long periods of time so you don't have to think about the foot
technique or the foot motion any longer then do the same thing with the left
foot so left hand double followed by left foot and once you got that down and only
when you are able to play with each foot separately then put them together double
with the right foot follow by a double with the left foot so once you're able
to play slow doubles using the heel toe technique also switch to leading with
your left foot so don't play right right left left right right left left spend
some extra time leading with the left foot left left right left left left
right right and once you got that down also spend some extra time playing
inverted doubles right left left right right left left and inverted doubles
leading with the left foot once you got those different stickings down then it's
time to increase the tempo
there's one more thing I have to add I don't really use the heel toe technique just
because I prefer single strokes I prefer the sound of regular single strokes
I prefer how they feel but to everyone their own when you're using the heel toe
technique you get one big advantage which is it's easier to play for long
periods of time at higher tempos you still have to invest extra time to
practice the technique store it to your muscle memory and then you're able to
perform that way I still prefer single strokes but I have a lot of respect for
drummers like Francesco who really push the limit with the heel toe technique all
right let's go on
nice
again he's following the orchestra with the right hand
let's talk about his hand technique for a bit especially with the left hand
he's using he's playing American grip so in between German and French grip a lot
of wrist motion involved as well but he's also using his fingers especially
his pinky his ring finger his middle finger
same thing goes for the right hand also looks like American grip although
sometimes he's using some sort of push-pull technique which we're gonna be
analysing a little bit later
still the snare drum on the left hand plays steady off beat
right now he is using the push-pull technique with his right and it's still
American grip but he's also incorporating a push-pull motion like
this alright let's continue
as you can see right here is that he is leaning forward when he is playing the
heel toe technique especially for longer periods of time actually the thing is
when you are playing fast double bass and it doesn't matter if it's if
you're using the heel toe technique or regular heel up for example at the
higher tempo you have to shorten the stroke so now it's time to say it
it's not possible to play for example at 270 BPM 16th notes and get a really big
beater swing for example 90 degrees beater swing out of that motion it's not
possible so you have to shorten the stroke at higher tempos and there are
two ways to do that one way and that's the way that Francesco is using is that
he's leaning forward this way you got way more weight resting above the
pedal and it's easier to push into the pedal plus there's one second thing
that's really important when you are leaning forward you tend to shorten the
range of motion for your hip flexor for example if I'm sitting up straight like
this it's easy to lift my hip flexor up like this but if I lean forward like
that I am limiting the range of motion and I
can't lift my hip flexor that high anymore
so that's like one thing you add you lean forward you add extra pressure
you got more weight above the pedal and that's how you play fast but the bad
thing about this is and that's why I don't use it and I don't really
recommend leaning forward like that is that it puts a lot of stress on your
lower back right now I'm 32 years old so I don't
have any problems with my lower back but I still want to be able to play fast
double bass in my 50s or 60s so I tend to use a second way which doesn't put
any stress on my lower back just sit straight like this and if you want to
shorten the stroke and add extra pressure on the pedals just contract
your quads your upper legs actually it looks like the motion when you're trying
to kick open a door like this that's the motion but it's a constant contraction
from your calf muscles that shorten the stroke like this and this way I'm able
to play fast with the heel toe technique or with regular heel up if you see a
drummer out there who is playing above
250 BPM and he's not leaning forward you can be pretty sure that he's applying
extra pressure from his upper leg his quads alright let's continue
that's also interesting now he's playing a regular thrash beat before this part
that was everything was bomb blast traditional blast beats long blast beat
sections long double bass sections and now he's totally getting out of the way
and the reason for that is the following now the guitar solo started so actually
Francesco is taking a step back and the guitar player acoustically is in the front
right now performing his guitar solo so I think Francesco and the whole band
they all have a musical sense of when it's time to push the drums and play
fast double bass and stuff like that and also when it's time to take yourself
back a bit and make space for the other instruments
again endless blast beats at 270 bpm he doesn't look tired
he's not losing power
that's again one of the parts where he is following the orchestra
great drumming from Francesco an awesome band if you have the chance go check them
out life again a big thank you to sick drummer magazine for these great drumming
videos I'm gonna link the original video in the description so make sure to
follow them and check out that video as well one more thing if you want a
certain video to be next in this YouTube channel please comment below and don't
forget to also copy the YouTube URL for me to find the video a lot of drummers
asked for this exact video by posting the URL of this video that's why I made
this video for all of you so thank you very much for watching cheers from
Vienna bye
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