Learning some Dave Grohl beats for Drumday

I have been a little lax in keeping up these videos on Monday #DrumDay, but I have been playing a bit anyway. This time I am working from a nice lesson from the Drumeo school. It covers various beats Dave Grohl has done in different bands. I have just gone for some of the simpler ones that I am familiar with. Others are too advanced for me right now.

So we have the chorus part of My Hero (Foo Fighers), the verse from In Bloom (Nirvana) and the chorus of Everlong (Foo Fighters). In Bloom is a fairly standard beat, but the others were more challenging. I am not playing them at full speed yet. Everlong is the hardest as it uses fast beats with both hands on the high hat with the bass and snare coming in at different times. I made a few mistakes, but this is my first evening of playing these and I hope to improve. This video will remind me how I started out.

I am playing my Yamaha DD-65 drums on which I have upgraded the foot pedals. You may not see my legs move much as I have been playing the bass drum with my heel down.

This week I actually did some editing of my video! This was mainly so I could take the best performance of each beat, but I have been wanting to do more video work. I was partly inspired by this post by @ds-tech who looks to be very proficient with the kdenlive editor that is freely available on Linux. I am just using some basic features to trim my clips, but I thought I may as well add some captions. I had to tweak the rendering a bit as the first version crash the VLC player (and my whole Linux system!) and 3speak did not like it either.

Rock on!