Recent content by samthebeat

Hey guys, this is my first video in a series of cool beats and licks. It's pretty fun to play you guys should defo check it out and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9675JDTq4uo&feature=youtu.be enjoy :)

A new project of mine, recorded at Unit 2 in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Borrowed a mates Tee Drums Snare, very nice drum. Alan makes great snares, but this drum is really special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOKuCpliDsQ&feature=youtu.be

I felt like sharing some odd time stuff I have been working on. Its hard, so not for beginners. Its a sticking approach inspired by Matt Garstka. R = R foot L = Left Hand Start with 8ths on the Right Hand, go from there and work through 1/4 and 16th and 8th combinations. Accent patterns open...

A new solo from my new studio. I'm set up in the south west UK for anyone who wants master classes. I teach everything bar double bass and related metal styles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-EhGj5ed2c Cheers

Made a lesson, hope you get something out of it, pretty basic stuff, but very essential I think if your into the likes of Dave Weckl, Vinnie, Gadd etc. Hope you get something out of it. Cheers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWMYnijbTA&feature=youtu.be

Im jamming to a Turn it Up and Lay it down fusion backing track "its our world". Its tracked in my home studio. I have cut this take from 6 take, some of the cuts are a bit obvious, the idea here is to here the best and wosrt of my ideas and weed out stuff I maybe shouldnt play. It was a very...

How many of you guys would pay for one, what do think of the idea? its something I want to do, build a set and run, in uk would cost £3-£4 an hour with full equipment. So in US $5-$6 an hour, worth it?

Just thought I would share this guys, anyone looking to learn some seriousy cool disco 16ths hi hat grooves and tastey bits. Check out this ace transcription from the drum ninja. Its wkd stuff, go listen to track on you tube. Derrick McKenzie is the man at this feel. Enjoy...

This is me having a drum jam in my shed, just running a few licks, enjoying myself, just to show my friends and stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1W3JQ_ZVrY&feature=youtu.be feel free to pull my playing apart if you like.

People who study english or whatever will allways study certain books or plays or whatever. If you want to go into film you will study certain films, some I could name from being a film student, some films have changed the face of film making. So this being the case as drummers, there a...

Dont buy it, use Blu Tac to dampen your drums instead, cheap as chips, never wears out, use as much or as little as you want and does exactly the same thing. Just thought I would share that.

I have spent the last few months spending a fortune on snare wires. So I thought I would share my findings. Im a fan of a really crisp sensitve sound. These are all the wires I could get my mits on, Out of all of them im sticking with the PURE TONES WORLD MAX, good price, good sound. Expensive...

Ive been teaching for a few years, i used to teach at drum shop for where there had facilitys for left handed players, i was taken on other peoples pupils there. Anyways i have been teaching out of my studio home where i dont have facilitys for lefty's. Up till now i have been lucky not to have...

Any brass band drummers on here?? I have come across some snare drum notation a pupil is learning. Hes in a brass band and im sensing ill be seeing a lot of this from now on, its a lot drifferent to the American drum corps stuff i have learnt. TR = buzz roll? SD? im assuming snare drum? or...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=073MVAwUUo0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=073MVAwUUo0 this annoys me, its got nothing to with the drumming, its the need for reconognition for not really doing anything. Its like ohh well done you made a video with too many camras, got some comments and than...