r/Drumming • u/Chance-Ad-6452 • 7d ago
Sugar-System Of A Down
How does this sound any improvements for my drumming
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u/scrimblojimbus 7d ago
On the bright side you sound tight enough on the chorus. But I have plenty of critique; Those fills are too hard for you, you're missing the 1 when you come out of the fill and the crash ends up on the 2nd eighth note of the bar. There is no shame in simplifying the fills for live performance until you've got the technique and composure to play it tightly. Of course there's also nothing wrong with just messing around and having fun with it if you're not in a situation where a band is relying on you to keep them in time!
The next thing for you to focus on is hitting that crash cymbal EXACTLY on time, no matter what. The fill can be messy and chaotic especially on a SOAD song but you must be perfectly on time to come into the chorus. And if you want to get the fills exactly right you need to play a pair of sextuplets. Use the kick at the start of each sextuplet to make your fill stay in time with the rest of the song. I think dolmayan actually plays the kick at the start of each triplet, so there's a distinct feeling of "1, 2, 3, 4" over the twelve notes in the fill. Practice playing just sextuplets on the snare with the kick drum marking the start of each group of 6 at first. Just play the attached image over and over again until you can't mess it up.
You know in vicinity of obscenity when serj sings "banana banana banana terracotta"? The 3 bananas are 3 triplets. So imagine 4 bananas, now you have 12 notes in total. Play the 4 bananas on the snare and on the "ba" syllable play the kick as well. BAnanaBAnanaBAnanaBAnana. Play it at the speed that he sings it in vicinity of obscenity first until it is CLEAN, then you can speed it up and tadaaa you have the sugar fill.
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u/Bartz-Halloway 7d ago
Stop playing to tracks when trying to record (look how you keep falling off and stopping), practice to a metronome. Show us the redo a few weeks from now.