Shadowing Practice: 3 Things I Practice Everyday - Drum Lesson - Learn English Speaking with Video

Now this isn't one of the three things I'm going to show you today

but it is something I'm practicing a lot right now which is basically just sitting down on the kit and improvising

because I've got the Meinl drum festival coming up in about three weeks

and a big part of festivals and drum clinics in general is improvising.

And it's not always that you set out to do a solo,

it's just that maybe there's a Q&A that says hey that thing that you always do with your left foot,

what is that?

And it's like, oh, it's,

you know, I just kind of add in a chick and then all of a sudden you're just going...

So you have to have your improv chops ready for those moments.

Now let's get into this lesson,

three things that I practice every day.

The first thing I do when I sit down on any kit,

especially because I've got a kit at home with some practice pads on it.

Then I've got my private lesson room that has a kit that I play on a lot.

They're all the same size,

but they're slightly different angles.

And then I've got this kit.

The first thing I do is I try to get acquainted with the drum set and especially the pedal tension.

And the reason I say pedal tension is because I've never adjusted any of my pedals.

However DW sends them, I take them out of the box.

I put, I mean, unless they were extremely loose or extremely tight,

I've never adjusted any of them.

I put them on the kit and I just allow my foot to get used to them.

So this exercise is really simple.

Sixteenth notes around the drum set.

Let's assume we're dealing with a four piece kit here.

We've got one E and a,

two E and a, three E and a, four E and a.

The orchestration isn't that important but I'm trying to get used to the position of the drums,

try to eliminate rim hits and things like that.

But on 3E and a 4E

and a I put a bass drum between every note so it essentially becomes thirty second notes.

So we have 1E and a 2E and a 3E

and a 3E and a 4E and a 4E and a 1E

and a 2E and a Let's give it a shot with a click.

Link in the description.

Whoa!

Singles between hand and foot,

it's honestly something that's been frustrating me since I was a kid.

I can never get it clean enough.

I can never get it quite to

that Vinnie Cagliotta level on the Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship concert where he does it

while he's pushing up his glasses looking at Dave.

It's the best.

It's just the best moment ever and I always think like,

oh, I'll do that and then I go,

yeah, I'm not going to do that.

So you might be asking though,

why not just do just singles?

And I definitely do that quite a bit for endurance,

but the thing with that is you're getting used to this rhythm.

You're just staying there the whole time and your foot kind of adapts to that.

What I like about this exercise is that your foot is stagnant and it has to jump in and be on time.

So that not being used,

then being used, not being used,

I think that's much more practical.

Because if you think about a groove like this.

Those three hits, that's what we're doing here.

So having that, if you're good at playing singles in between your hands,

you're going to be good at doing it like this.

In a groove.

Not that you would ever have to do this for very long.

At least I hope you don't.

But that's what this exercise is all about

and like I said it gets me acquainted with the position of the drums as well as the tension of the pedal.

Moving on to number two.

So every day I pick a new groove environment to improvise inside of and to explore.

Obviously in this instance it's the Gadsden Groove,

single handed 16th note groove.

And I just sit in that pocket,

I sit in that tempo,

in that feel and start exploring things.

Doing some 30 second notes.

Is that too busy?

Probably.

Ooh, could I interject some triplet stuff going on here?

And can I mess around with little hints of different subdivisions other than the straight 16th notes on the hi-hat?

Also, I'm trying to find how far can I explore this thing without losing the actual groove itself.

Naturally, sometimes I go too far,

then I have to rein it back in,

and sometimes I think I'm being a little too safe,

and I need to explore a little bit more.

But the goal here is to pick a groove,

any groove, and just start to explore it a little bit more,

and learn how to feel a little bit more free,

so you're not so trapped inside that groove that groove.

And finally number three this might be a bit torturous for some of you

but trust me you will grow so much from it and it is soloing with a restriction.

So that restriction could be a foot ostinato you could have a oh maybe like a little splash close close.

So you're soloing over this.

Oh I wish I could actually play that instead of just say that.

No way I can play that.

I'm trying.

Woo!

Come on biscuits and buttercups.

Anyways, like I was saying, soloing over a restriction.

So the restriction in this instance,

quarter note challenge, but a little bit different than how I showed it in the Meinl videos a few years ago.

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In this case, I'm just working on a specific part of the skills that I feel like I'm lacking in.

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By the way, I got this idea from a solo that Terry Angoli did with Christian McBride.

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So I did not make this up.

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I saw him do a solo,

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and I just thought, that'd be easy.

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And then I went, yeah, I think we're good.

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So I had to practice it.

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Now where I feel like I'm lacking is right hand and bass drum together on the hi-hat against this.

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So you can think of like what could you do?

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You can do in between.

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Maybe some odd groupings.

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What would fives sound like against this?

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Cool.

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Some polyrhythmic stuff.

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Things like that.

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So I'm just working on that.

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It sounds like this.

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Ah, come on!

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So as you can tell,

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I'm still working on it.

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And that's what I'm trying to tell you is I'm practicing these every day because I don't have them down.

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If I had it down I would just nail a solo out for you and go like,

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Yep, still working on it.

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It's like, are you?

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Or are you just making yourself feel better by playing things you can already play?

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I don't have this down yet.

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I'm trying things.

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I'm going for them.

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And I'm physically not able to do that.

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Those threes?

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Ah, I want those threes!

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And they're within reach, right?

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Like, you know what it's like to have something within reach where you're like,

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I can think of it and I'm so close to do it,

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but I just can't.

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So what's it going to take?

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Oh yeah, practice.

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So, YouTubers, I hope you got something out of seeing a little bit of the process,

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seeing what I'm working on right now,

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every single day, chipping away at it one note at a time,

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not getting disgusted with myself,

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not thinking, oh, I'm the worst drummer ever.

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It's like, it's just going to take time.

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I'm going to have to chip away at this stuff,

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and so will you for whatever it is you're working on.

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Hope you enjoyed this.

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Please like, subscribe, all that good stuff.

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And if you're going to the Meinl Drum Festival,

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I will see you there.

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If you're going to the UK Drum Show,

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I will see you there.

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I've got my own room this year called the Mike Johnson Education Room.

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It'll be me, Richard Spaven,

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Carter McLean, and Matt Griner from August Burns Red.

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So I'm very excited about that.

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So hopefully I'll see you there.

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If not, I will just talk to you in the comments below.

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Oh yeah, and check the description.

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Everyone asks about notation and like this metronome, all this stuff.

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All the information you could ever need is in the description below.

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But until next time, go practice.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “3 Things I Practice Everyday - Drum Lesson”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: groove, drum, note, kit, foot. Deze video bevat 160 zinnen en 1465 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 9:02. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 162 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 79% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
groove zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɡɹuv/	inkerving
drum zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdɹʌm/	drum, trom
pedal zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɛdəl/	pedaal
restriction zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/	beperking
improvise werkwoord	/ˈɪm.pɹə.vaɪz/	improviseren
adjust werkwoord	/əˈd͡ʒʌst/	aanpassen, verstellen
biscuit zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbɪs.kɪt/	biscuit, koekje
buttercup zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbʌt.ɚ.kʌp/	boterbloem
frustrate werkwoord	/ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/	frustreren
grouping zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/	groepering
interject werkwoord	/ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/	tussenwerpen
metronome zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmɛt.ɹəˌnoʊm/	metronoom
notation zelfstandig naamwoord	/noʊˈteɪʃən/	notatie
sixteenth bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˌsɪksˈtiːnθ/	zestiende
triplet zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtɹɪplət/	triool, trio

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

I've never adjusted any of them.
I think that's much more practical.
Those three hits, that's what we're doing here.
At least I hope you don't.
It's like, are you?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg	If I had it down I would just · If not, I will just
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	I've never adjusted

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 57 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, you're, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: sixteenth /ˌsɪksˈtiːnθ/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: restriction /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/, notation /noʊˈteɪʃən/, subdivision /ˈsʌbdɪvɪʒən/, splash /splæʃ/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: ostinato /ɒstɪˈnɑtoʊ/, subdivision /ˈsʌbdɪvɪʒən/, eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: groove /ɡɹuv/, improvise /ˈɪm.pɹə.vaɪz/, improv /ˈɪmpɹɑv/, pad /pæd/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: stagnant /ˈstæɡnənt/, splash /splæʃ/, adapt /əˈdæpt/, pad /pæd/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: groove /ɡɹuv/, grouping /ˈɡɹuːpɪŋ/, stagnant /ˈstæɡnənt/, disgust /dɪsˈɡʌst/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als groove, drum, pedal.

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