Triplet Ghost Groove

[mx3level]

You straight on fundees but the jersey sucked.... over all I liked it

[yahhteebockity]

that sounds awesome. yet another thing to add to my practise routine.

[travinhorton]

dude u sound stiff when u play.. your playin with wrist instead of fingers.

[RedCl0ud22]

Wait wait, teach me how to do the thingy at the end.

[adamtuminaro89]

The counting for this would be in 16th note triplets, or sextuplets, no? 1 + a 2 + a 3 +a 4 + a

Backbeat is on 2 and 4, not 3.

[RGdood]

your ghost notes are too loud. try agan

[nigelregan]

very cool, I just love this kind of exercise for practise, keeps me interested and motivated, thanks mate!

[sahrtown]

Good stuff man, thanks for breaking down for me.keep up the good work

[RobSassiissasbor]

pittsbuuurgh

[TheLincolnGuy]

sounds like a pocket

[ImaFez]

how come u look black in that picture thing?

[DRUMM3RD40]

@ImaFez I clicked on the video cause i saw it was a black guy on drums and I got excited :P

[ImaFez]

@DRUMM3RD40 me too...

[scottmusic94]

But will it blend?

[FrankBheard]

cheeburgahcheeburgahcheeburgah­.

[fuckenmike]

I'd love to buy you a new camera so i can watch your vids with better quality!! Your lessons are easy to understand and extremely effective. Shot bro!!

[ShaanSilva]

thanks man!

[weevilboy]

this is why the steelers lost the super bowl...big ben is busy working on triplet grooves

[drumskentala]

Really cool! You look and sound really smooth when filling. Are you using a lot of six stroke rolls with accents or singles?

[hiphopandrock]

This is a great beat, I've been playing for a while and never really noticed it before, if you switch the ghost notes onto the bass drum then you get a rhythm played by John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) from "Good Times Bad Times". Keep on making great videos, thank you

[Gilnar13]

Man, this is great! Thanks for posting!

[ThiiSNiiGGa]

i love it bruh

[tomjunk1965]

sweet beat treat... thanks a ton bro!

[antoniohm81]

thanks man

[Nationist]

dude great work. i'm glad you didnt spend 40 hours explaining its origin and just jumped right into it. fun to practice! thanks!

[Palmpat]

Thanks bro! Easy groove but great building block as you've shown. Keep teaching! You're definitely getting drummers on the right path.

[KaaYyaaa]

Hi, thank you :-) You really rock ....

[Fuhhrealluke]

RllrrL is another great way to get fast triplets.

[CRHAILE1]

Hey man I love this video. It's very helpful. Thanks for posting!

[andinio]

@ZdfFunky: nobody want to know. I play death metal and every drummer can learn more and more every day ;) :D:D:D its a groove to practise =)

@robthedrummer: thkns for this cool groove. u inspirate me to try a new technical death beat :P

[darkmanhimself]

u r a god on the set bro, keep it up.

[ZdfFunkY]

played that shit when i was 10..

[robthedrummer]

@ZdfFunkY

Right on.

[JPJHDD]

@robthedrummer Unfortunately some people just don‘t apreciate a good technique! That‘s sad, because a lot of people do researching to learn and not to build critical like this one up here, maybe it is not a critical, whatever!

Man please keep doing your job, put more videos on youtube, I‘m watching them, I‘m on a long journey to learn how to play drums! Thank you for your explanation!

[XxStrongDrums1996xX]

@ZdfFunkY and?

[ZdfFunkY]

@XxStrongDrums1996xX and.... im hungry? what u wanna know? -.-

- i definitely think that robthedrummer is a good drummer.. but there's just none serious drummer lesson, u can get somethin from, if you're better than beginner on youtube ); an i like to apologize for my last comment, its just frustrating when in the end lose desire for playing

[XxStrongDrums1996xX]

@ZdfFunkY So you are implying that these lessons aren't better than anyone but a beginner? So what? If you think that the lesson is boring and that you won't take anything from it, find a lesson you like. I personally think this is a great lesson. I originally watched this video about a week after I started playing and it gave me a really cool new groove to practice. Now, I've been able to build other grooves around the idea of triplets. This is a great lesson, regardless of what you say.

[420jaymac]

@ZdfFunkY wheres ur vids??

[aarontimebomb]

@ZdfFunkY

dick

[Catmangamer]

@ZdfFunkY

No one gives a shit.

[KaneWestDanny]

pittsburgh steelers :D

[Crumpdog]

comes back on anything but the 1

[Clone56]

I have beena huge Rob fan for awhile, videos always deliver

[slayeruiop]

is that a pork pie snare???

[blee21483]

this was great thanks man

[iamevildoing]

...wow

[goldsmithexile]

what I like about this is that the snare @ 1.56 almost becomes a rattling drone texture rather than it being the more usual single hit. I could hear Elvin Jones in there too when you played the groove faster...

[TheMistofer]

Big Ben!

[sevdrummin]

jeez man, im trying and as i go my whole arm starts to flex up to my shoulder. what do you recommend i do? i have it for maybe 2 measures then i fall off.

[infantdrugmule]

@sevdrummin

start reall really really really slowly and play it for way too long at each speed, till you hve it on lockdown then speed up a tad

[bobjimtimy]

Reminds me of Grapevine Fires by Death Cab

[showimprovement]

W H A T! THE ENDING IS UNREAL

[minoustudio]

nice!

[123AllFreak321]

great solo at the end, and great instruction ;)

[toddmonster]

are you bouncing with a pinch or is that speed all wrist?

[robthedrummer]

@toddmonster

Wrist and fingers, it's all about technique.

[darknightza]

Look at Bic boi with his bic shirt

[bongomaster12345]

in this video you look exacly like Ethan Suplee

[jwcolburn]

You rock dude! Thanks for explaining it in simple mans terms! haha

[MrYeswecan14]

awesome!!

[sebedeable]

nice job men i actually do that also

[mr1stimpression]

awesome fills dude

[MrBilgey]

Now that sounds bloody good!

[300869qwr]

He has no shoes on hahah

[OneUpMushroom]

Niiiiice

[drumma5]

I've attempted to avoid watching drumming videos on youtube for fear that it would just turn into some mediocre person trying to push their style of music but this sounded really good. It wasn't over the top and you showed a cool beat and played it well. Good work dude, I really liked the video.

[PL18US]

love it!

[lasticebreaker]

there are so many talented young drummers on you tube now.

but if you saw this guy walking down the street you wouldn't think he could play the radio. (by the way, he and i are similar in appearance and age, so i'm not slagging him). bottom line:

all those BORING rudiments most people hate to practice, this is the end result. brilliant dude, fucking brilliant!

[RTSLAVE]

are you doing a double paradiddle somewhere at about 2:54 ?

[Nexx16]

Awsome, thx for sharing!!

Solo from 2:48 to 3:02 is CRAZY!!!

[euphoricanomaly]

Besides the ear piercing ring from your crash cymbal, a very good tutorial on triplet grooves.

[davss5]

An extra comment on the Bernard Purdie Half-Time Shuffle that basically propelled and popularized the triplet groove...as much as I credit Purdie for his contribution, (to me) his groove seems so removed from (what I perceive as) the shuffle feel itself (e.g., Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop") that I would rather call it a triplet groove (as the author of this video has done)...so all those in favor of renaming Purdie's groove to the Bernard Purdie Triplet Groove, sign the "petition"...thanks

[yoryani]

good on ya mate

[Narut0Fan217]

can you post a video on how you did your fills using the groove? possibly doing it slower? also digg the jersey i actually have a copy of the 2009 super bowl game ball.

[lajoshg]

Gracias mang! sounds good!

[bleedforhockey96]

I UNDERSTAND!! THANKS!!! took so long to

[Tuberidin01]

Finnaly!! I can use this in so many beats! I always wanted to learn that drum beat to Rosanna and this really helped. It also helped me with some of my shuffle beats. Thanks so much. Nice jersey by the way!!

[davss5]

Rosanna's groove has the same basic triplet groove - except that the hands are changed in the triplet: the hi-hat/cymbal is hit twice in the triplet while the ghost/grace note is played once on the snare (instead of twice here in this video...so Rosanna's groove (from the beginning) is:

RgRRgR(RL)gRRgRRgRRgR(RL)gR etc.

(RL) = Right hand/Left hand together

g = ghost/grace note

(I think the ghost/grace note following the downbeat may be optional)

[davss5]

Also - while I respect that the drummer here chooses to reach over with his right hand for the downbeat accent, another way is to use the left hand (for the downbeat), followed by a ghost/grace note:

ggRggR(L)gRggRggRggR(L)g etc.

This way may be more difficult for some drummers because it can require more stick control to follow the downbeat accent with a ghost/grace note (using the same hand)...but, again, the drummer in this video is still playing the basic groove correctly...

[davss5]

Oops...I made a mistake...my notation:

ggRggR(L)gRggRggRggR(L)g etc.

is a different take on a triplet groove...but the correct notation for the groove played in this video (using the left hand for the downbeat) would be:

RggRgg(RL)ggRggRggRgg(RL)gg etc.

(RL) = Right hand/Left hand together

g = grace/ghost note

This is still more difficult because the left hand is playing the downbeat followed by 2 grace/ghost notes (instead of just 1 grace/ghost note)...

[Flaitesexy]

@davss5 stfu

[davss5]

@Flaitesexy Hi...I am not certain as to why you responded this way...I meant my comment in a neutral manner...I respect that you may have disagreed with my comment - but it still would have been nicer if you had responded in a respectful, considerate manner...blessings - I hope the best for you...

[cromwell521]

......thanks...finally i got it!!!

[AL19030]

sounds similar to the bonham shuffle

[iGetBlumpkins]

seriously

[WiLdHaCk3r1]

is that grip tape on the drum stick?

[TBRodd]

why fatties always drum better? i mean dennis chambers etc

[Pathfinder7298]

You are too good !!!! NICEEEEEEEE

[skiddlecrumms]

i have been trying to learn the purdie shuffle forever!!! GREAT VID!!!

[iamcraiger]

pretty cool groove, but not the purdie :-)

[XrapsterdogX]

YOU FKN ROCCCCKKKKKK

[TBRodd]

wats yada yada yada ??

[TBRodd]

@SPVOLS that must be you

[Who2Are1You]

OOOH! and the broken triplets from 'good times, bad times' fit riiiight in. FUUUN!!!

[natulver]

are those fills all double stroke?

[typhlosion100hp]

htat hi hat sounds like glass

[Destruction3402]

Sweet groove man!

[SKahl1989]

Sweet man.

Nice Stillers jersey too!

[lancelance2]

steelers.

[voidofidea]

what kind of triplets are these, 16th note triplets? how does the bass fall into the groove, on what e's and ands? If I try and add the feet the hands get messed up without knowing the pattern on paper

[Danny25drummstx]

haha you just solved my problem thanx!!

[TylerM815]

Please make a video on that solo groove... PLEASE!!!

[TylerM815]

You really need to make a video on how to do a solo like you did... that was amazing dude... No lie!

[PEHIO]

wooooooooooooow!!your fills are very very very nice!!

[greendaydrummer28]

YEAHHH STEELERSS!!!! U FROM PGH?

[mattygeetarross]

Rob,

Is that the "purdy shuffle"??

[mattsmav]

mate you are a great drummer...and good at explaining it to..cheers from aussie matt

[irespon4u]

wow dude that was sick...

[jon3j]

dude, this is so amazing...and you play your fills almost like your a gospel drummer

[kuulis23]

*worships

[joel0753]

wowwoweeeeee my friend....salute from Philippines.....

[notojj4]

yes, loved it please do teach more =)

thank you

[ManiacDrummer1212]

damn. that was sexy.

[maqprus]

Mate, you are a pure genius! This beat is so addictive, I just sat and played it for 2 hours switching from hi hat to ride, and expanding it to toms etc. I just love triplets grooves, please teach us more:)

Thanks for this lesson!!!! Cheers

[BassDude50000]

abes beat

[antibulletdodger101]

is tha a hockeytape grip on your sticks??

[blaydor65]

Very cool your pattern, I will try it this afternoon and I think I'll often use it! Thank you!!

[gradessz]

dude your freakin good rock on!!!!!

[CsWyattCs]

This is a good explanation, thank you.

[spikemytea]

not exactly the purdie shuffle. in that one, you gotta play the back with the LEFT hand as well as the ghosts. this is a short-cut version of it. nice though.

[SuperChuck3]

Simple, but awesome groove, thx man!!

[maplecustom]

I had no idea Big Ben played drums!!!

[DeeSwizzle]

Cool and groovy. I use a groove sometimes that's:

LRR LRR LRR LRR LRLR LRR LRR LRR LRR LRLRL:

The LRR's are triplets and it's kinda like 3/4 feel and the LRLR evens it out. You can do it with triplets too:

LRL RLR LRL RLR LRLR:

If I had my new kit, I'd demonstrate it. :)

Great vid 5/5

[SuperChuck3]

Um, what you are doing there are not Triplets, but 16th notes. 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 4 = 16, or 4 beats. I do that all the time as well, but those are normal triplets that I use in Rock Tunes usually.

[SuperChuck3]

*sorry, I meant those are normal 16th notes.

[DeeSwizzle]

Ok, sorry for the confusion. If I could write it on the staff, it would make more sense (at least to me). I play 4 groups of triplets (16th note) and then 4 16ths.

The tempo is steady, so each note is a 16th. They add up to 16, but the first 12 are a triplet feel. I hope that clears it up. :) Keep groovin!!! =)

[SuperChuck3]

Same, it works much better on the staff for me. Yes it makes sense to me now, thx for the clearup :D

[grgo00]

cool stuff

[sanshuz]

The Purdy shuffle

[hawkcwg]

i do that same kind of groove but then do double on the right hand as well, and with my right foot, then i switch my right foot and right hand doing double on the snare and floor tom and while i do that i hit the drop clutch and do sextuplets with my double bass and play a polyrhythm with hands on the hi hat and snare.

[gregkrazanski]

hahahahahahahaha wow u'r cool

[hawkcwg]

you try doing it.

[westhofer8]

your hihats sound awesome in this video

[bas080]

I love that groooooveeee ALLOOOOTT!!

[metallicarokr93]

roethlisbergerrrr

[robthedrummer]

Super Bowl Champs!

[stri8ted]

sick

[Ghostnoj]

Purdie Shuffle Halftime shuffle

[HIMCKY2117]

similar to Fool In The Rain

[robthedrummer]

Yea, it is similar. Look into the "Rosanna Shuffle" that's more like fool in the rain, or my shuffles video. Thanks for noticing!

[angusbeefoo]

this drum kit sounds awesome

[Davec775]

the ending solo fills were intense !

10 out of 10 !!

[pathmo2002]

thx bro that was sic!

[Tcuzz1]

I am sensing that someone is a Dennis Chambers fan.... very nice.

[robthedrummer]

Haha, how'd you guess? I love Dennis, he's one of the best ever!

[Tcuzz1]

Absolutely. Your solo licks on this clip have his popcorn snare sound -- unmistakable.

[basecamp13]

that ride sounds great! where did you get it and for how much?

[robthedrummer]

It's a Zildjian 20" ping ride. I got it like 10 years ago. Not sure how much they go for nowadays.

[robthedrummer]

Learn the rudiments, practice tons!

[bundytrousers]

This dude is excellent. What is that fill starting from From about 2:52? I hear drummers do it a lot. It has a real rolling feel to it. Dude you have to post a video on that, please!

[robthedrummer]

It's pretty much just paradiddle-diddles, and some rolls. Or it could be interpreted as 6 stroke rolls.  Basically it's a RLRRLL pattern with accents.

[bundytrousers]

Thanks bud! I thought it had a 6 stroke roll feel to it, I just wasn't sure. Very smooth indeed! By the way i love the snare drum.

[robthedrummer]

The snare is a Pork Pie Amber Acrylic, you can find that snare for around $200. I dig it!

[kysrsoze1]

Awesome. Now I feel like crap cause I suck so bad compared to this dude. Thanks!

[robthedrummer]

No need to feel like crap, there are tons of drummers better than me too! All that matters is that you love to play!

[docterblack]

lol now i need a lesson on those fills. seriously.

[robthedrummer]

I think I'm gonna put a new vid up on these kind of fills, check back!

[ornguis101]

i will solo around this beat XD

one beastly solo man

[eternalsigmabanda]

awesome man. what sticks are you using?

[robthedrummer]

Those are either pro-mark 747 rock, or Vader Virgil Donati sig. With stick wrap.

[tayedrums1]

very good drumming it just goes to show just what a bit of practice can do. And it shows how out of practice i am with some of the rudements.

[midinerd]

FUCKING AWESOME

[hedfuc1]

nice one

[inthebluescrossroad]

daaaaaammmnnn haha i gotta start practicing

[vulture711]

Good stuff - sounds like Jeff Porcaro

[marcods86db]

bellissimo!

complimenti!

[kursusOCB]

really excellent, dude.

thanks for sharing

[Rtardiuseaterofgnome]

Internal Dynamics are also your friend when playing this stuff.

[TangoAlphaNiner]

lol for instance i will solo around that beat, bam crazy ass fills.

[oldludwig]

Once again Rob, some great simple stuff to add to the box of tricks. Keep em coming!