hello drum technique academy i'm krimh i'm back
with another lesson and i think this lesson is a really important lesson with a great
topic because not many talking about it and i feel like that somehow this approach of
double bass drumming gets lost a little bit in the era of triggers so today's topic is about
powerful double bass drumming without triggers so let me be clear this video is not here to bash
drummers that use triggers because i myself use triggers it's not the case this is not
a lesson that will um where i will hate on triggers absolutely not you know i use
triggers myself live and i think they're great but there's definitely also a different
approach on how to play double bass and it's more of an old-school way and i'm sure there
are a couple of students here on this academy which are interested or who are interested
in learning this approach so before we go in detail let me give you a little overview
how this lesson is going to look like i want to cover a couple of different topics i want to
talk first about why is this interesting to learn this approach of double bass drumming what
are the pros what are the cons i want to talk about my pedal settings and especially or
in general about pedal settings how they can affect you know your powerful drumming you know
how to get a louder hit out of your pedal then i want to also maybe talk about the height of your
seat you know your drum thrown also where you should position your foot on the foot board and
of course i want to go through three different tempos so we're gonna have a low tempo that it's
around 100 to 140 beats per minute then we go into the mid tempo area which is around 150 to 170
and then we go to the faster one which is 180 to 200 210 why not more well at this point i think
then it's useless to just focus on the microphone because we are physically limited you know we
will have to use triggers afterwards to make the sound you know amplify more but i think if you're
the kind of drummer who is really interested in playing up to this certain tempos you can
definitely make it happen without triggers and you can work on your power all right cool so these are
the topics ah i forgot one i also wanna then um go through maybe some exercises to show you how
you can learn you know to increase your volume while playing double bass okay so
let's get started why should you learn to play loud double bass if you have
triggers good question i think we are a bit spoiled can i say it like this with triggers
because the trigger takes away one thing you know and that's the the velocity yes of course
some people will say to you or will say to me yeah but i have velocity like a dynamic velocity
of my trigger model but i don't know many drummers who are actually doing that i think the majority
is using triggers because of this volume issue you want to amplify your sound so you're
gonna make velocity that is always very loud what a trigger doesn't take away is the accuracy
it will amplify it right so if someone is not able to play proper double bass a trigger will not
help it will make it worse but let me come back to this topic about the velocity thing so the trigger
takes away this part or it feels unnatural right and um i just for my for my playing i just feel
like playing loud and powerful at the same time is also a part of extreme drumming it's also
part of um this community i'm not here to teach you 250 beats per minute that's not what
i'm gonna do as i said we're gonna focus on just really powerful drumming
underneath 200 and a bit above and um what are the benefits i feel like that it
gives you a certain identity as a drummer which in my opinion is very important nowadays it's not
only about pulling off certain tempos it's about that you play a beat and then people will know
okay this is Krimh or this is i don't know this is mario from gojira or this is i don't know joey
jordison and this is george kollias doesn't matter so um i think it's really good to be also
able to play very loud double bass and i bought myself a digital mixer just a couple of
weeks ago and right now i'm only listening to the microphone i have not turned on my trigger
model just for the sake of learning again the velocity thing and it really opened up you
know my mind to new possibilities and it showed me where i can work on or like what i can make
better and i must say that it really helped also strengthen my weaker leg my left leg because
the trigger you know everything sounds very nice and you tend to maybe lack a little bit with the
power of your weaker lag it's obvious everyone has that but when you play with a microphone you will
definitely hear the difference to these so i will play the double bass at 100 beats per minute full
leg motion i will also throw in some quieter parts and then i will increase the volume not increase
the speed just the volume and you will hear and see the difference so pay attention to the beater
traveling back pay attention please to where i position my foot on the foot board please
pay attention to how what my knee is doing and also pay attention to the hip so let's
go check that out here is a little example at slow double bass 100 beats per
minute and 140 beats per minute so i hope you paid attention as i asked you to
do so and you could see where my foot is placed on the footboard and this is i think also an
important thing for you if you want to get the maximum velocity out of your plane is where do you
put your foot on the foot board depending on what pedal you use how you set up your pedal also what
spring tension all these things determine where to find a good position okay guys so let's move on
to the next uh tempo area so we are talking about mid tempos mid-tempos are…
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