[KyleNelson]

Suggestions, and comments are welcome!

Link to video

I messed up two times, I think.

[Nsra65]

Well " for me to actually to see you play ....I would just pass on you ....

Look like you are up tight

and

NO rhythm ....

NO soal

No heart

NO attitdue

Sorry !!

[KyleNelson]

Really? I am just like that,I don't bob my head back and forth. Plus when I get nervous I tend to be tight.

[Infero Exicution]

I thought it was fine. I liked your fills. They were very smooth and clean.
You made transitional movements from different beats very nicely.
Bravo! I liked your comfort with the double bass too. I tend to tense up too when I get nervous so we're 2 of a kind, bro.

Nsra65, can you give him any constructive criticism?
Maybe some pointers on how to improve what you said where weak points?
We're all here to help each other.
Drumming Siblings

[butter]

a useful piece of advice i recieved after postiing my first video, was to play more dynamically. i think you have a lot of good ideas in there, but you kind of separate them all by messing around on the toms. i know it is hard to be entertaining in a 6 minute solo, cuase damn, thats a lot of time. its easier to embed cool stuff into a solo if its shorter. if you have enough ideas to play for 6 minutes, thats great, but i think only a portion of your video was different and non-repetitive, so if you had cut out the parts you were kinda messing around, you would have had a shorter, more entertaining solo.
i have never actually COMPOSED a solo. in my video i just sat down and played for 3 minutes. that is something i will never do again. i seemed to get caught at points after fills where i didnt know what to do, so i just jumped into the first groove that came to mind. that groove, i had already used that isnt always a bad thing, i guess, but i will memorize my solos from now on, because that kind of thing bothers me i dunno if you memorized yours, just try not to be repetitive.

always practice your rudiments i dunno if you do, but they are always good for you. also, you might try practicing to a metronome.

i agree that you are too tight... thats a tough problem to fix. i, as well, have it. for me though, i am only nervous when i am playing for a bunch of drummers who will catch my every mistake i am totally confident and loose when i play in front of 300 people who barely know what a quarter note is

all in all, though, good video

[KyleNelson]

Thankyou guys, I understand that shorter with cool fills is awesome. I even felt some of the tom beats were repetive so I will try and rework it with a shorter and non repetive. I did do rudiments while I took drum lessons and back in school, but this month I actually thought it would be better to work with a metronome to get RRLL, paradidles and other things faster.

[drumn00b]

OK thought that was a good video. But I'm looking for a little help: some fills. I'm no good at them. I can never decide what toms to hit, and when. Because of this, my timing sounds a little messed up too, but that I can fix myself(metronome, and proper metronome technique I find works). Could you help, as you seem to have good technique(anyone else would be fine too)

[KyleNelson]

You just have to look at drum solo videos, but not just that. Don't think you can replicate what you see unless you are really good. But just learn simple fills in songs, I suggest songs from Led Zepplin or The who. And just start a ticking beat with the high hat with your foot and do something simple like 16th notes: Do a RLRL drum stroke and add to it. Like RLRL RLRL and on the second R and L hit the first tom. You should devep an interesting pattern but work on it and it will go faster just write it down and hit toms on different hands and you can be quite creative. Also to advance on harder patterns do triplets RLR LRL RLR LRL: A triplet roll and do the same as you did earlier. But when ever your done and you want to speed up try and hit a crash.

[janice595]

Loosen up man. It's ok.

[janice595]

Awesome!!!