How to Play Rock & Roll Drums : What is the Mitch Mitchell Drum Beat?

Learn about the Mitch Mitchell rock and roll drum beat and how to read it in sheet music in this free music lesson video clip.

Expert: Kevin Grossman
Bio: Kevin Grossman is a young drummer who is studying music at the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, in the University of Hartford.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• bass
• drum
• beats
• fills
• music
• theory
• musical
• instruments
• cymbals
• snare

[TheMANright101]

recognize it from listening to the radio?!?! you fucking kidding me???? get out of here

[jvoodoochile]

@kc5tng concerning my previous reply. i apologize i to you.

[jvoodoochile]

@kc5tng your absolutely correct in what you are saying. if you are going to teach you should be a degreed professional who can sit-in and play any style of drums with anyone, anytime and any place.and that goes for guitar players, bass players, all of them. imagine what it would be like if doctors got to just call themselves doctors and were like most of the musicians out there....people who barely know what they are talking about, operating with-out any knowledge of what they are doing.

[kc5tng]

The double overhand method of holding your sticks is not exactly "wrong" but to get the "Ghost Notes" more definition, using the french grip on the left stick would certainly be the way to go. Also, playing the hi-hats in a closed position will allow us to hear what you are doing a lot easier, as the sound is all washed up with the open hi hat cymbals. If you are going to "teach"...then you should know more than your "students" and you should have a properly tuned decent drum kit.

[kc5tng]

@jvoodoochile --A Good drummer will sound good on ANY kit, poorly mic'd or not...a Bad drummer will sound BAD on The Very Best Kit made and mik'd up perfectly...

. I am NOT a know it all...but I am a very average drummer who knows the difference between a Good drummer and a Bad one and before you go spouting off about "well, we havent heard anything you've done"....Go look up a band on here called "The Country Wranglers"...we have several slide shows with live recordings Poorly mic'd

[jvoodoochile]

@kc5tng

i dont think he said it was a drumbeat written by mitch mitchell...he said "he liked to call it that". AND! how do you know what his kit sounds like?? they aren't even miked...or recorded properly....you sound like a 'know it all'....did you watch all the videos? he seemed to break it down very well...

[readme60]

thank you for explaining what i was about to say.

[mrpaddywagon]

im sure it sounds okay, but you have to notice that every single expert village video has HORRIBLE sound quality, trust me.

[kc5tng]

Dude...your kit sounds Terrible...your technique ...to call it technique would be to give it a name it doesnt have. You need to find a good drum instructor/teacher and really pay attention to the basics, starting at "how to tune a drum kit" . That particular pattern...go back to the beginnings of the Motown era...you will find that pattern being played. Mitch Mitchell did for certain play this pattern but so did thousands of other drummers at that time.

[f6201747]

sound bad