Top 5 Drum Teaching Youtube Channels You Should Follow Right Now

Obviously you can still follow the course ads. You can still drive to your local music store and sit an hour behind an old drum in a cramped room with old soundproof foam on the walls. But you don't have to. Because a glorious invention called YouTube changed that. And it's great for new drummers.

What's even better, some of those drummers are world-class and give you a hair-scratcher with their technique taught for free on youtube. From fine-tuning your technique and improving coordination to composing legendary solos, these guys do everything to make it easy.

Quincy Davis

With Quincy Davis - or Professor Davis if you're one of his students in the Department of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas (UNT) - every video is a clinic. In fact, if you watched the transcript of one of his videos, you might think it was a textbook.

Because video after video dates back almost a decade, you'll find jazz drumming lessons easy to learn, easy to apply. After all, when you go through Quincy's videos - or "Q-Tips" - you'll find lessons with titles like:

“15 WAYS TO PRACTICE BETTER”
“IMPROVE RIDE CYMBAL PHRASING AND MELODY”
“3 SIMPLE WAYS TO ORDER ANY SONG QUICKLY”

He places his lessons in the broader context of musical art. As he explains, “It is very important for me to provide musical and historical context whenever possible, so students not only learn drumming skills, they also learn how to apply them. in the musical context and understand what these techniques and approaches are and what generations were pioneered by"

It's not surprising that you'll hear him humming a tune while playing the drums. "If we don't use those [drums] techniques and skills to make music with other people, they'll be useless."

Nate Smith (Drummer 80/20)

"Play cleaner, get better over time and learn to improvise better". That's what Nate Smith - also known by the name of his YouTube channel "The 80/20 Drummer" says in the introductory video, and is also the focus of his lessons.

When you follow this youtube channel you will discover a topic. It's a theme that reflects the exacting principle - it's called the Pareto principle - which says that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts.

For Nate, 20% of that time is spent practicing the right things, the very specific things that can be overlooked, which often distinguish good drummers from great drummers.

Eg:

"How to learn to adjust hardness on drums"
“How to Stop Thinking Too Much, Just Making Music” on the Drums
“Potential coordination mistakes even good drummers make (and how to fix)”

In addition to mastering the art of writing compelling headlines, Nate picks up the little things, zooms in, and explores them in 10, sometimes 20 minutes with examples and analysis.

Rob "Beatdown" Brown

For Rob, it's his way of blurring the line between lesson and conversation. Or how he titled his videos “why aren't your fears scary! and hosts hour-long “Ask Beatdown” live streams.

“I think I have a knack for taking what I've learned and simplifying the process of teaching it by dismantling it and presenting it in a way that even new drummers can grasp,” he explains. Like on video tutorials. Maybe that's why England is famous. Whatever the topic, from flaming exercises to syncopated grooves, teach it in a way that even a beginner can perceive it.

Michi Held

Michi is a rare artist in the YouTube drumming community. Most of his lessons are short and engaging - less than a minute, in fact. But those short lessons are not lessons in the traditional sense. No talk. Learn through symbols and rhythms on the screen. Comfortable engineering, gentle Meinls.

Although most of his courses are for advanced drummers (at least I see it), he explains the concept very simply, and takes notes on everything he plays, and any Any problem can be solved.

Bill Meligari (TigerBill's DrumBeat)

Wearing a gray hat and black shirt in every video over the past several months, the man still uses only one camera angle and no microphone. But just spend 30 seconds watching one of his videos, you'll see that he doesn't need them.

Because what you find is the wisdom of a man who has been teaching drums longer than you have lived. He has certain themes on certain days: “New Drummer Monday” and “Tension-free Tuesday”. And sometimes he doesn't even play at all. He only talks for a few minutes on a certain topic.

I recommend you to watch some videos like:

- "Are you a born drummer?"
- “The right technique can last a lifetime”
- "Who is the greatest drummer in the world?"

So when you subscribe to his channel know that you are getting more than useful drum lessons. You're getting a lesson from someone who won the 2004 World Fastest Drummer Competition. Someone nicknamed "Tiger" by Joe Morello - yes, it's Joe Morello.