Upstroke on the Bass Drum

[Asger17]

God, it must be funny to play that :o

[hediken]

Love that!!

[magaren456]

AQUI É O RICARDO DO BRASIL:

VOCE É MUITO BOM!!!!!

CONTINUE ASSIM.....

[QotsaFoo]

dave grohl also uses basedrum upstrokes when he recorded with queens of the stone age "a song for the dead", you should take a listen. dave grohl also loves "copying" bonhams technique

[b34rd4dlov3r]

Ian Paice meet John Bonham's style.

[s9bryant]

I always thought I was the closest to Bonham, clearly not! Open my eyes to much. Thank you for your time and devotion.

[copypaiste]

Cool stuff at 0:44! Neato! ;)

[cchhuucckk12]

cool!

[osso12]

Awesome dude! Bonham in MHO is hard to duplicate! Question... I notice just about everything Bonham does, he leads with the high hat... Getting the beat started... Is it possible to play the upstoke on the bass drum without the high hat keeping time? Or is that the secret to most of this? :)

[GrooveDrummin]

You need to keep the hi-hat pumpin'. Here's a tip, think of it as double bass drumming with the left foot on hi-hat pedal instead. The hi-hat is keeping the time and this lick is very hard to play when not using hats. So, very important to keep going. Thank you!

[pavko48]

i didn't know bonham came back:S lol amazing drumming!

[Kudan26]

another thing if you can help me, i love your snare, how is it tunned?

wich head is mor tigh?

[GrooveDrummin]

Bottom is very very tight, top is medium tight. Keep tension equal at all lugs. I also have 42 strand snares on there too. Thanks.

[Kudan26]

OMG you are awesome

well ill bee like a fool saying this, but could you explain in a "graphic" way how to get this sound? i mean, i dont speak english at all T_T i read many coments but still dont get the idea

could you please make some like this

1 - - - 2 - - - 3 - - - 4 - - -

i actually know (or i think i know) the kick on the hats is on 1 2 3 4 but the bass drum is in 1 - (here lol) - 2 - etc. ?

[GrooveDrummin]

Thank you!

It's actually simple but hard to do and keep smooth.

So 1-2-3-4 is the downbeat count but the upbeat count is the (-) between the numbers. What is key to this sound is the bass drum playing in mostly or all upbeats and the hi-hat playing only downbeats keeping time.

Think of it as double bass drumming, but left foot is on hi-hat. Always start with left then right and alternate back and forth.

I hope this helps get you going :)

[Kudan26]

Thanks it helped, now to practice, at least i get the idea

thanks again

[Scarecrow545]

holy crap you're amazing, that's limb independence right there

[musicman9583]

First off I wanted to say you play far better than any other Bnham wannabe on here cough (Joedrums). Oops, but you really come very close to sounding like hime. I was just wondering. Your bass is playing on the e's and ah's here correct? Why is this called upstroke?

[GrooveDrummin]

Thank you so much for the support!

1-2-3-4 is downstroke or downbeat, the kick in this vid is played inbetween, the e's and ah's as you have mentioned, so this is the upstroke or the upbeat. I hope this is what you ask.

[musicman9583]

That does answer my question thanks a lot. To be honest before you showed me on this video I could never figure out hat beats Bonham hit the bass drum on during his solos. Thanks for all the videos and answering all of our questions on here! There will be more coming from me lol.

[drumer1198]

you know that roll you do at 43 to 49 seconds i saw bonham do that in his moby dick solo in earls court i've been trying to figure it out but cant put my finger on it do you think you could help me out? thanks

[GrooveDrummin]

you caught that :)

It's simple but when played fast sounds complicated:

It's actually a rudiment, the 5 stroke roll

R-R-L-L-R - L-L-R-R- L

Have fun with it!

[fuhkinay]

Without a doubt, the best drummer I've seen on Youtube!

[GrooveDrummin]

You're too kind... Thank you

[akisspyros]

Bonham:source of inspiration

[HolandesFrito]

Wow, congratulations, again!

[tjterris]

are you playing heel up or down in this video?

[GrooveDrummin]

heel down

[drumsticks135]

I learned this also a while back, I do it pretty similarly to how you do it!! It's so much fun!

[jazzaholick]

bad ass as usual i wouldn't expect any thing less actually i posted this to my favorites before it even started playing :) keep up the good work, peace

[PantaZampa]

Bonzo style!!!

[160calories]

i need to learn this to play 4sticks ughhh.

your kit sounds amazing like always, such an inspiration !!!

[HellHound1992]

Dude your Amazing!