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Want to instantly make your playing come across as tighter and having more feel- without really changing much of anything in your actual playing? Here's one way I've figured out how to do that (and it pretty much works every time).Full transcript and more available at http://danielhadaway.com/120
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A super-common problem many drummers encounter is the dreaded "my kick drum sounds like I'm bouncing a basketball" issue. Here are a few different ideas on how to fix it...Well hey there, welcome back or more Drummer Daily. I'm happy you're here. My name's Daniel, and I'm going to be your drum coach for at least the amount of time that you listen to this podcast. This weekend, this past weekend, I got a question and I thought I'd share it with you and see if we could maybe help you out with something that you might be facing, which is this. I was doing one of my drive intensives, and the person that I was doing it with, one of his questions was, "Hey, I feel like a lot of times my kick drum sounds like a giant basketball when I hit it." That sound, if you don't know what I mean then you probably don't have this problem. If you relate at all then all of a sudden you'll be like, "Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about."That is a, the kick drum sounding like a basketball, where it just has this really weird bouncy sound to it. It's not a pleasing sound. That's a common problem, and it's a problem that I've had before. It's definitely a problem that I had when I first started playing drums, and especially when I first started really paying attention to tuning drums, and the heads that I was using, things like that.I thought I'd offer a little bit of advice on some places to kind of start looking, to kind of troubleshoot that. The real cause I think of that, and for me to explain this I don't want to get too geeky, or too technical in a way that's boring or hard to follow. In order to kind of really grasp what's happening that causes a bass drum, or a kick drum to sound like a basketball bouncing, we have to think about how a drum creates sound. There's a lot of stuff going on in a drum, and I don't understand most of it. Let me just put that disclaimer out. There's the basics of you have a giant cylinder basically, with a couple of stretchy pieces of plastic on each side. You're hitting one side of that, and there is sound waves being generated. They bounce around inside the drum until the sound waves and the air escape somehow. Either as energy back into one of those two heads, or through an air hole, or another hole in the drum, or the head itself.What I think of is this. When your bass drum beater, when it hits the head, think of it this way. The energy obviously gets transferred from the bass drum beater into that head that it hits. Then that head moves, the whole surface of the head moves at some level, and all of this air and sound waves get pushed out of that head forward into the front head of the bass drum. Now, there's sound waves which is energy, and there's air all moving around. It kind of sends forth energy, it sends forth, I think of it like the energy coming out of the bass drum head that you hit, is kind of like a bunch of football players just running full speed ahead towards that front head.Depending on what that front head is made of, they're either going to bounce off of that head. Think about a bunch of football players running, big heavy football players running at a piece of paper stretched across the field. How easy it would be for them all as a group to just rip right through that, and move it a lot. Versus if there was a giant 20 foot thick brick wall in front of them. No matter how hard they're running, you're going to ... They're going to not get very hard, and probably not move anything at all.Full transcript at http://danielhadaway.com/119
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Looking for a clear, proven path to becoming a professional drummer? Great! Because today, I'm going to outline that exact path for you...Hey there. How are you? I am so well. I'm so excited that you've come back here again to hang out with me, and I'm super pumped because today is the day that I have been teasing for a long time, and I've been saying, "I'm about to announce something, and I can't tell you what it is." I've been saying, "If you've been asking about the backing tracks that I use on Instagram ..." people have been asking where they can get them, I've been saying, "Hey, if you just wait until May 1st I'll tell you how to get those for free." So, I've just been saying a lot of, "Wait. Wait. Wait until May 1st," and May 1st is finally here, and so I'm so excited to tell you about what I've got going on, but I don't want this to just be an announcement. I want to actually share some really serious info with you, and so I think today I'm going to make this announcement, but then I'm also going to share with you what I'm going to say is really the one secret to becoming a professional drummer, and I mean that.This is not some gimmick or some goofy, cheap catch phrase. This is legitimately the basic path and the secret to becoming a professional drummer, but first I want to tell you about how you can get those backing tracks for free. What you need to do is head over to prodrumacademy.com. Now, prodrumacademy.com is a new website that I’m launching. It’s not live yet, but if you go there to prodrumacademy.com right now you’ll be able to click a link and take a survey for me that will just help me kind of shape the final pieces of prodrumacademy.com while I’m finishing it up. So, what it is is you go to prodrumacademy.com, click on the link, and I believe there’s eight or so questions -- maybe 10 questions at most -- that just ask you, basically, like what challenges you face in becoming a professional drummer. Asks you a few questions about some ideas I had about different courses and things I might come out with.Full transcript at DanielHadaway.com/118
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Can making your drums sound better (through tuning or mixing/mic'ing) actually make you a better drummer? I think so...Man, what a week it's been for me. I hope it's been a week for you. It's a week in all caps. Man, it's been a WEEK. We've talked a little bit about all the things that are going on, and this episode's coming out on Friday, so hopefully we're a few days away from the launch of my next big thing. Or, not the launch, but the announcement of my next big thing.Part of that, I don't know if I've mentioned this on the podcast, but part of that announcement on May 1st is that I'll be ... People ask me all the time on Instagram, "Hey, where can I find a copy of that backing track that you used for this video or that video?" Well, what I am announcing on Monday will be a way for you to get almost all of the backing tracks that I've used on Instagram, for free. Hopefully you'll look forward to that, hopefully you'll jump on that. I'm not planning on limiting it to the number of people, but there's a chance my bandwidth will run out or something, and I'll have to limit the number of downloads I can allow. Anyway, we'll see about that.Man, it's been a week, but I want to talk to you today about something that hit me the other day. It was when I was ... I do these live Facebook broadcasts. I do like, a live drum clinic kind of thing. As part of that I play the drums. I have a way of mixing all the drums and everything and then putting them through. After I shoot the videos and go live, I always go back and look at the recording, and I try to skip around at least to the parts where I am playing a little bit, just to make sure everything came across well and there weren't any hiccups or pops or hisses or anything like that. Also, just in case the drums sound really bad or something, I want to fix that for the next time.So far, I've just been so blown away by how good the drums sound...Full transcript and more available at DanielHadaway.com
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There are times when drumming actually isn't very much fun. So here are some mindset shifts we can use to get through the tough times when drumming is more of a discipline than fun activity.Hey there, welcome back to Drummer Daily, I am ... pulling out my hair is not the right word, because I'm not frustrated, I just am so busy. I am in the middle of redoing my website, so there might be some pieces of it you can already see now, depending on when you're listening to this and when you're happening to browse my website, danielhadaway.com. I am trying to redesign the look of it, but more, I'm trying to make it clearer when you come to my website. I've put out so many resources for you as drummers, videos, downloads, YouTube videos, instructional videos, and my plan is to crate a lot more of those coming up soon and actually link them back to what we're talking about in podcasts a lot, so kind of having more free resources associated with what you're hearing about on this podcast.So maybe it could be a thing like, I don't know, I've heard some people say, "Hey, I wish you could demonstrate playing more on the podcast." Well, as I mentioned before, it's kind of tough to do, but maybe what I'm going to try to do is maybe have something like, if I discuss breaking down the subtleties in playing with quiet dynamics on the snare drum, maybe I'll offer a video that's related to that on my website. So I'm going to say, "Hey go to this address on my website" and you can quickly get that downloaded or whatever.Full transcript and free resources for drummers at DanielHadaway.com
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Have you ever heard of the Nashville Numbers System? Today, we'll talk about what it is, and how you can use it as a drummer to better communicate with other musicians.Transcript:Hey there. Welcome back for more Drummer Daily. I am happy you're here. Today, I over the weekend, this is Tuesday, but over the weekend I painted my studio room. I'm getting prepared for this thing. I'm sure you're probably rolling your eyes at this point because I've talked about it so much, but I'm getting ready to announce something on May first. This episode comes out on April 25th, so were less than a week away. I'm announcing something on May first, and it's a new thing. It's a new thing. I can't tell you what it is yet. I realized I had the need, or it would be better if I kind of revamped my studio space just a little bit, just aesthetically, just how it looks. Painting it was part of that, so I did that.Anyway ... I did that this weekend, so today I'm upstairs, or I'm going to be upstairs in a minute kind of putting everything back in place. I had to move a bunch of sound panels and stuff, sound absorbing panels for acoustic treatment, out of the way so I didn't get paint all over them, so moving all those back, putting plug covers back on the plugs on the wall and things like that. I'm looking forward to getting up there. I love hanging out in my little dedicated music space. It's very relaxing and very cool.Today I wanted to talk to you about something. I actually got an Instagram message from someone who listens and he asked me about, I believe it was Connors who asked me this. He said, "Hey, tell me, can you do something about the Nashville numbers system? Like maybe what you should know about it and how you can use it as a drummer." Basically all that stuff. I thought, that's a great idea. I haven't really talked about that much.Full transcript at http://danielhadaway.com/episode115
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If your snare sounds like trash, I bet I can tell you why (and how to fix it)...
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I'm always looking for more ways to serve you and your drumming goals. So I had this idea, and I'd love to hear what you think... Send me an email through my website - danielhadaway.com - and let me know if you'd be interested in this.
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I get questions/comments a lot about how seriously I take music and drumming. I know many of you are right here with me on this, but today I'm going to try to put words to the reasons WHY music is actually MORE important than life and death to me...
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Feeling down because you've made mistakes while drumming onstage? Good news: no one is paying attention!
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