Amy tips for me?

Cool song! Mix is a bit wonky but you prefaced that. Your playing is solid and your fills are tight. I don't having anything to say besides keep at it!
 
Tymon Hańczyk said:
Please check out my drum cover. Unfortunately, the audio isn't mixed, but it's still listenable. And please give me some advice, it would be really helpful!
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Since you are playing against (or with) a recorded track, I would lower the drums volume (if you can) or raise the track volume just to even the mix a little so the whole thing sounds cleaner.
Not sure how you are recording this, but even with this video, you can put it in Davinci Resolve (free) and go to the Edit tab or to the Fairlight tab and add the original audio track one more time, then mix it (in the Fairlight tab)

What you do is you load your original video (the video you posted here), then add the original audio track in the edit section of Davinci, then go to the Fairlight tab and adjust the volume levels until they are more blended so that your drums don't overtake the original track or so that the track doesn't overtake your drums.
 
the way you play doesn't look too bad, like from a technique stand point. how old are you?

It would be cool to see/hear you play some other styles of songs to get a better picture.

this isjust a personal thing, but I would tune the drums a tad higher, just to get a better sound in the recording
 
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX said:
the way you play doesn't look too bad, like from a technique stand point. how old are you?

It would be cool to see/hear you play some other styles of songs to get a better picture.

this isjust a personal thing, but I would tune the drums a tad higher, just to get a better sound in the recording
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Thanks for the reply! I'm 14 years old, and I'm recording a cover of I Prevail soon, and it's a slightly different style. As for styles like rap, I've never played before. So far, I've played metal, rock, and punk. But I'll definitely try something different someday. As for tuning, I know I need to tune my drums, but I'm not very good at it. I'm going to classes soon where I should learn how to do it. Thanks for the reply!
 
roncadillac said:
Cool song! Mix is a bit wonky but you prefaced that. Your playing is solid and your fills are tight. I don't having anything to say besides keep at it!
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Thanks! It really means a lot to me. As for mixing, I don't even have microphones. I record everything with my phone and a GoPro, that's why the sound is so poor. But I hope I'll be able to do something about it someday.
 
doggyd69b said:
Since you are playing against (or with) a recorded track, I would lower the drums volume (if you can) or raise the track volume just to even the mix a little so the whole thing sounds cleaner.
Not sure how you are recording this, but even with this video, you can put it in Davinci Resolve (free) and go to the Edit tab or to the Fairlight tab and add the original audio track one more time, then mix it (in the Fairlight tab)

What you do is you load your original video (the video you posted here), then add the original audio track in the edit section of Davinci, then go to the Fairlight tab and adjust the volume levels until they are more blended so that your drums don't overtake the original track or so that the track doesn't overtake your drums.
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Thanks! I'm currently editing in DaVinchi Resolve, but I didn't know about this feature. Thanks! I'll definitely use it in my next video.
 
Tymon Hańczyk said:
Thanks for the reply! I'm 14 years old, and I'm recording a cover of I Prevail soon, and it's a slightly different style. As for styles like rap, I've never played before. So far, I've played metal, rock, and punk. But I'll definitely try something different someday. As for tuning, I know I need to tune my drums, but I'm not very good at it. I'm going to classes soon where I should learn how to do it. Thanks for the reply!
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Damn dude, you're really good for 14. I started when I was 12 and I'm 36 now, I was in my late teens when I started being able to play like that. Keep it up!
 
Tymon Hańczyk said:
Thanks! I'm currently editing in DaVinchi Resolve, but I didn't know about this feature. Thanks! I'll definitely use it in my next video.
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Practice with the video you posted, just create a new project, add the video, then on a second track add the original music, then go the the Fairlight tab and play with the levels until both are good and render and post again. shouldn't take you more than a couple of minutes.
 
Tymon Hańczyk said:
Thanks for the reply! I'm 14 years old, and I'm recording a cover of I Prevail soon, and it's a slightly different style. As for styles like rap, I've never played before. So far, I've played metal, rock, and punk. But I'll definitely try something different someday. As for tuning, I know I need to tune my drums, but I'm not very good at it. I'm going to classes soon where I should learn how to do it. Thanks for the reply!
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all good!! I am 56, and started playing when I was 5 years old...waaaay back in the 70's. Metal, rock and punk are great styles to play to...that is where I started...(well, I actually started with jazz first b/c my dad was a jazz drummer), but most of the bands I have been in were either metal or punk

I also teach middle school and high school percussion for my job...that would be 10-18 year olds here in the states, which was why I was asking. You do have a lot of great stuff going for your age, and I am glad you will be getting some lessons/classes to help you with the things about drumming that you can't learn by just playing along to music.

do you ever just practice beats with a metronome going? I think my biggest observation is your timing is just a little "jumpy"...and it is noticeable because everything else is so good (so that is a compliment/hint that you can improve 1000% if you just look at some timing stuff)...A LOT of my students your age are in the same place...a good start, but need to work on timing.

hope to see more progress in the future!!
 
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX said:
all good!! I am 56, and started playing when I was 5 years old...waaaay back in the 70's. Metal, rock and punk are great styles to play to...that is where I started...(well, I actually started with jazz first b/c my dad was a jazz drummer), but most of the bands I have been in were either metal or punk

I also teach middle school and high school percussion for my job...that would be 10-18 year olds here in the states, which was why I was asking. You do have a lot of great stuff going for your age, and I am glad you will be getting some lessons/classes to help you with the things about drumming that you can't learn by just playing along to music.

do you ever just practice beats with a metronome going? I think my biggest observation is your timing is just a little "jumpy"...and it is noticeable because everything else is so good (so that is a compliment/hint that you can improve 1000% if you just look at some timing stuff)...A LOT of my students your age are in the same place...a good start, but need to work on timing.

hope to see more progress in the future!!
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I don't think anybody can really show you how to tune your drums because, tuning is subjective, meaning what you like to hear is going to be different from what I want to hear and so on.
Yes someone can show you the basics but tuning is a personal preference.
This is why I recommend the Drum Dial, very easy to use even by somebody that has NEVER tuned a drum before. It gives you suggested settings per drum and those are usually a great start, but as I mentioned before, you can go 10 up or 10 down and find YOUR perfect tuning. This would be (IMO) harder to do with the TuneBot. and definitely not as newbie friendly.
 
doggyd69b said:
I don't think anybody can really show you how to tune your drums because, tuning is subjective, meaning what you like to hear is going to be different from what I want to hear and so on.
Yes someone can show you the basics but tuning is a personal preference.
This is why I recommend the Drum Dial, very easy to use even by somebody that has NEVER tuned a drum before. It gives you suggested settings per drum and those are usually a great start, but as I mentioned before, you can go 10 up or 10 down and find YOUR perfect tuning. This would be (IMO) harder to do with the TuneBot. and definitely not as newbie friendly.
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tuning is subjective for sure....but there are things that "don't work" in a lot of tuning schemes, and it is good to get to know those things and avoid using them when the time is wrong. I generally hate the sound and feel of a bass drum with laundry inside of it, but I also realize that my more open and thumpy tuning scheme does not always work in a given situation, so I will tune differently beforehand, or even at the gig if I need to

and I have had the Tama version of the Drum dial - the Tension Watch - for over 20 years. I use it for my marching drums mostly at school because it allows me to get roughly 30 heads in tune in less than 2 hours , and prevents me from caving in shells, and blowing out heads due to uneven tension. I definitely reccomend an aid like these to help our ears (especially those of us with the ring/crickets going all the time)
 
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX said:
tuning is subjective for sure....but there are things that "don't work" in a lot of tuning schemes, and it is good to get to know those things and avoid using them when the time is wrong. I generally hate the sound and feel of a bass drum with laundry inside of it, but I also realize that my more open and thumpy tuning scheme does not always work in a given situation, so I will tune differently beforehand, or even at the gig if I need to

and I have had the Tama version of the Drum dial - the Tension Watch - for over 20 years. I use it for my marching drums mostly at school because it allows me to get roughly 30 heads in tune in less than 2 hours , and prevents me from caving in shells, and blowing out heads due to uneven tension. I definitely reccomend an aid like these to help our ears (especially those of us with the ring/crickets going all the time)
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I also have the Tama version and I don't think there is an easier way for a newbie to tune a drum.
yes the basics such as muffling (or not) can be taught by a person but in my experience everyone that tried to teach me was always very biased about how to tune drums so they will only teach me what worked for them, luckily I was always trying anything and everything because I knew then that there was not a one size fits all so I learned different ways from my own experimentation.

In reality I hated how bad the drums looked with all that garbage in them so I wanted a way to achieve similar without my drums looking like a washing machine, or a refrigerator door.

I have tried to tune by ear (and by counting turns on each lug), I got an ok sound, but when I used the Drum Dial... I got a great sound immediately so I became a believer.
 
doggyd69b said:
I also have the Tama version and I don't think there is an easier way for a newbie to tune a drum.
yes the basics such as muffling (or not) can be taught by a person but in my experience everyone that tried to teach me was always very biased about how to tune drums so they will only teach me what worked for them, luckily I was always trying anything and everything because I knew then that there was not a one size fits all so I learned different ways from my own experimentation.
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I also had people teach me that "drums need to be a certain sound for this style of music", but I was lucky enough that before that, they showed me how to actually tune the drum...like how to get a tone at each tension rod, and then to match them. And how the heads work with each other. The punker in me was able to ignore his other suggestions if I needed to.

doggyd69b said:
In reality I hated how bad the drums looked with all that garbage in them so I wanted a way to achieve similar without my drums looking like a washing machine, or a refrigerator door.
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same...the guy who taught me to tune considered muffling "cheating", so we worked on things to allow me to avoid that as much as possible. To this day, that stuck with me...he would say "do the guitar players put socks between their strings? Do the trumpets put gloves over theit mouthpieces? Why do we always have to destroy the natural sound of our instrument"...

doggyd69b said:
I have tried to tune by ear (and by counting turns on each lug), I got an ok sound, but when I used the Drum Dial... I got a great sound immediately so I became a believer.
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what I do with the drum dial is get the tension rods to an even starting PSI, and then I count turns from there on...for my drumset drums, that is around 70psi...the marching drums are almost all at 95psi, except the bottom bass whixch sits at around 80
 
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