It’s an urban myth that I have any beef with Drumeo. In 2015 or so, I published a video in which I parodied Jared Falk’s one-handed-roll video, and several years later a video that was a play on a Drumeo title - “Hard Beats That Sound Easy” instead of “Easy Beats That Sound Hard”.
It’s true, my rabble-rousing instincts are probably slightly higher on the mixing board that completely optimal not to ruffle any feathers, but from me to Drumeo, it’s always been love. From featuring many of my friends and quite frankly launching a few careers, to epic videos like Thomas Pridgen’s, to recent stuff like Larnell playing Enter Sandman (I need to hear him with real Metalica now)…I’ve always been a steady consumer of what Drumeo is doing.
All of which is probably to “protest too much” to an objection I may not even face: “why are you doing another video about Drumeo?!?”
Well, have you seen the timing challenge video they just put out? Play creatively with the metronome in weird places without losing the click?
How am I not supposed to respond to that? Obviously, I’m a moth-to-a-flame. It’s the 80/20 bat signal. As I say in the video, they could’ve just sent me an email.
Why?
I’ve been talking about weird metronome placements on this channel for the better part of a decade. And of course it all began with my own sh##ty timekeeping, which was hindering my career at around the time they invented the YouTube.
So, whether I’m actually any good, after all these years, at weird metronome placements, remains to be seen. But I’ve sure been talking a good game about it.
So in this video, I put my moey where my mouth has been. Can the self-proclaimed “inventor of weird metronome stuff” (and of course I jest because plenty of drummers before me have talked about this stuff) handle the Drumeo challenge?
You’ll have to watch the video and judge for yourself.