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Excelente 👍🏼

30 years, this exercise kinda reminds me of a "Paradiddle Funk" lesson in modern drummer from years back (paradiddle sticking on hat and snare with samba kick under)...thanks for the lesson!

Stick control

Gaaaaaaabe!!!!! I’m guessing that you were talking about John from Drum World. Great dude. I loved stopping there and talking to him. Hope all is well

Thought Leland plays drum…

Coated Emperor X w/ Clear Ambassador Hazy Snare Side

Coated ambassador

this is very wrong all you need to do is tighten the fuck out of it and disengage the wires

Slaine here from Va.Bch. Great lesson on this subject. Am a beginner drummer and I own a few snares all 14" but various depht raging from 4", 5" & 6.5" . I use Evans heads of different types so as to have multiple sound choices. Something I began to do is to tune my snares by tunning the head first then the resonant after as to not having the beaterhead pull on the resonant and getting it out of tune when tune high. Continue the great job, ill be watching for ur next video.

Love it 🎉

Ned from Spain stopping by again Gabe.Nice and straight forward lesson on something a lot of drummers need to know. My preference for many many years are Remo White coated Emperor for the top of all my drums, a clear or smokey gray Ambassador on the snare, white coated Ambassadors for the resos on the toms, same for the bass drum. Even though I'm happy with my vintage wood Ludwigs and a Slingerland snare, I used to have a Ludwig Acrolite, now I wish I still did . Take care Gabe.

Hey sir can you make a vid about your grip(marching style)? I noticed that your hands/grip are super efficient. Maximizing power while conserving energy❤

GREAT HANDS GREAT FEEL ALL IN GOOD TASTE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INSPIRATION. MY TWO CENTS STOP THE CROSS STICKING PLAY MORE OPEN HANDED

The most complex thing about developing chops and hands for me so far has got to be the application of orchestration. I tend to learn chops as like, almost a drum trick rather than an overarching mastery of a concept that I can then apply in different scenarios. I do have those things in other regards, now I guess it's just a matter of drilling as many variations of the fills I know as possible until I develop the familiarity with the different voicings I have available and what I can do with them.

As i read in other comments, you're way past my soloing ability. In my opinion a solo should be the drummer's self expression. You nailed it. 😎🤙

Seems like you're heavily influenced by jazz.

This sounds awesome it’s groving 👍🔥💯

Ned from Spain here again Gabe. Nice playing, great hands, I'm loving both the sound of your kit, cymbals and the recording levels. Some sweet execution of the patterns and combinations. A criticism which is more a matter of taste is that when you switch to that tasty groove keep adding rolls and intensity. Opening it up with a freer sense of time and work it into the final section of the solo. Very impressive playing nonetheless and more than I am able to do. Bravo Gabe and again for taking the risk of showing your process and growth.

Another inspirational post thanks gabriel🥁

Awesome solo dude, love your channel

Wonderfull Gabriel, Greetings from Germany. Peter

Nice playing Gabe ! 👏👍 I can find no criticism !

That was awesome! Sounded like some Steve Gadd inspired stuff in there...and the left hand control at 4.30 🔥

I am a long long time music listener and an absolute beginner in drumming, so please take what I write for whatever it's worth. Here is my listening experience: I really enjoyed how you turned the rock groove you start at 7:01 into a solo. I wished it was longer where you put more fills around the backbeat and eventually turning it into one long fill/solo. I also loved the clave like beat you start at 8:16. It is playful and fun, again I wished you stayed more with that idea (cross stick part) too. If I could play the way you play I would try to add creative empty space, tension, and giving the solo breathing room. Again as my experience I wanted to hear more cymbals (not as time keeping on the ride but for example as emphasis and punctuation on crash). Reading what I wrote I think I am describing an intermediate level drummer . My intention here is not to give feedback but hear about your creative process, if you care to share. Thank you for this discussion and thank you for the lessons you upload!

BRAVO!!! ОТЛИЧНОЕ ЗВУКОИЗВЛЕЧЕНИЕ, ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНАЯ ПОДАЧА. СПАСИБО.

You're definitely past where I can offer any constructive criticism! I loved watching the ideas hatch and then seeing the wheels turning as you work with the ideas and develop them using dynamic contrast, rhythmic contrast, employing all sorts of techniques. I've never seen anyone do a perfect solo - it doesn't exist and shouldn't be something anyone strives for - I enjoyed your self expression and that is all that matters. I'm adding this video to a playlist of videos that I watch to inspire me in my own efforts at unaccompanied soloing. Cheers, Gabriel!

it was impressive solo ideas! Great Sounds and Nice Ending.

That was dope Brother 🙏🏾

Loved this Gabe, I do this a lot. I love your snare sound! Please do a tuning video🥁

if its Tuesday .. we Druumin' !

Hi, Greetings from Mumbai, India. Thanks for sharing all these great video lessons. Is there a video called ..Half time sizzle, i just can't find it..

Great concept... vey helpful...

Thanks for doing these, I appreciate everything you're sharing

A lesson on hand and foot techniques either using the content of this example or other would b cool.Keep it comin gabriel🥁🇦🇺

It would be nice to have a PDF of your lessons

Please throw in some hand/foot exercises! Thanks Gabriel

This is how I've always played, but tbh I think "unnatural" sticking often is just better, if harder. Like the 3-note pattern you were playing (RLR RLR RLR RLR), the pattern's tempo is fundamentally limited by the speed at which you can play singles with one hand (in this case the right hand is playing straight singles the whole pattern). If you play it "unnaturally" (RLR LRL RLR LRL) the max speed you can play it is far, far higher (pretty much the limit is how fast you can play _doubles_ with one hand). I think like you said this is useful mainly for drumline just cause of the visual aspect and so it's easy to teach everyone the same sticking. Plus if you're playing slower stuff it's arguably just easier.

OOOps! I just noticed that in the written examples, variation three is noted incorrectly. But I do say and play it right, it is always RL L RL L RL L RL L

Gooood stuff!

so my right hand ... and my Other hand ...GOT it 😆😆😆

Mike Mangini

This is very useful, but only when you're playing in 5/4. If you want to play in 4/4 and play 5/4 over it you'd have to remember the melody and be able to reverse it, or do the quintuplets. Or so i believe. Master of polyrhythm is actually Mistress Camille Bigeault . Even wrote a book on the subject called The Polyrhythm Odyssey. And of course Virgil Donatti.

Thankyou so much for the great lesson on polyrhythms, Nickolas Cage. Whoops ! I meant Gabriel. So Sorry.

Virgil Donati

Where can I buy that drum pad you’re using ? Thank you.

Maestro Gabriel: en mi caso, el problema con la clase anterior, no fue para nada la falta de un ejemplo visual que pudiera usted haber agregado, sino la falta de una práctica pausada y atenta de mi parte, enfocada más bien al análisis de "lo de fondo" (al "¿qué?") antes de pasar al "¿cómo?". Fue muy satisfactorio ver éste video y "sentir" que lo iba entendiendo a cada segundo. Muchas gracias 🙏🥁MAESTRO🥁🙏 por toda su ayuda y generosa entrega como siempre. Saludos desde Chile🇨🇱.

Great groove

Pete Zeldman. I saw him do a drum clinic in London around 2001 at Drumtech, he was so advanced with showing and playing polyrhythms it felt like being back in maths class.

A lesson on the polyrhythmic rudiments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Gabriel, great lesson .