Heel Toe Technique with Pearl P-120-Pro pedals

My video clip demonstration of how i play heel toe technique on a pair of inexpensive Pearl P-120 -pro single pedals with mushy Gibraltar bass drum practice pads. excuse my grandson in the background. ha ha! and the birds chirping! lol

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Music

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• Heel
• Toe
• Technique

[Inlistd]

that baby is just like chillin' ahaha

[ricohorton]

@Inlistd my grandson is now 3 years old and loves to play the drums.

[ricohorton]

p.s i always set my beater angles about 45 degrees on all my pedals. pretty much never any closer than 6 inches. spring tensions are always about medium depending on the weight of the beaters. never too tight or too lose. must be balance feel for me.

[dragpyre]

It really looks like you have a loose spring tension. And your beater is quite close. I think that's why you get all that bounce, so instead of two strokes, you get two with a couple of ghosts. You provide a good explanation, but if you tighten your springs all the way or a bit tighter, you can get cleaner strokes and it builds the muscle and timing in your legs. Just constructive criticism :L

[ricohorton]

@dragpyre thx for your reply and good insight. it is partial all those things. all comes down to the balance between spring tension and beater distance and foot technique. the heel drop is what is what helps activate drum control of the action of the foot for heel toe playing. if you watch the ball of my feet closely you will observe 2 strokes. the heel drop signals the raising of the foot to allow the beater to rebound off the head then the foot -bd meets the foot as it comes down for the 2nd.

[ricohorton]

Tama Iron Cobra jr

[Inlistd]

@ricohorton hahaaa awesome!

[12yearsafter12]

Best explanation really thnks

[Salzcamino]

@ricohorton So what would you recommend? The P120, the P900, the TAMA Iron Cobra Jr., or the dw 2000 (newer 4000)?

[ricohorton]

@Salzcamino the p900 is the next step up from the p120. the difference is that it has a solid base plate.