in this video I'm going to show you how to play Vinnie Paul's double bass
pattern the proper way in Pantera song called becoming, coming right up!
The first thing we need to understand is how the patterns broken down and what
exactly Vinnie Paul is playing to make this sound like a machine gun I'm gonna
bring the notation up on the screen and it's gonna be down here so you can
follow with me I've written this out according to how I've seen him play it
on studio videos in YouTube and then watching other people's interpretation
of how he plays it and a lot of the comments in some of those videos are
saying that it's not right I'm here to demystify that and clarify that up
that's gonna look like this left left right right left right left right right
left right left right right left the idea here is to really get the right
foot doubles down and it's really difficult if you're a right handed
drummer because leading with the left foot is unnatural and trying to keep
that consistent throughout is difficult the way I like to practice it is like
this is just keep the left foot going on the footboard and then adding those
doubles on the right foot in between to make sixteenth note triplets and that's
basically the ending pattern to in this song
you really need to have a strong right foot technique to get those doubles in
there I've got the kit triggered up and I'm pretty sure Vinny did too so he's a
lot he's able to play that a lot more efficiently over a longer period of time
the technique I use on my right foot is kind of a sliding motion so in one
motion I'm getting two hits if you're still having troubles with that maybe
let move your left foot over to here on the hi-hat and then try playing on the I
hat to isolate it and you can keep the pulse going through just to get yourself
into the field because it's not really comfortable leading with the left like
that and putting triplets in between your feet next we want to layer the kick
drum with what his hands are doing he's just playing a simple backbeat but
because this leads with the left foot it is really difficult to try and lock the
hands in because your left foot in your left hand or playing at the same time
while this pulse is continuously playing on the high hats if you just started off
with the hats and the snare and go in and out with the kick drum it might help
you solidify the pattern let's start it off at 90 bpm
another thing we want to remember is at the end of Metro two and measure four
he's playing on the snare and the China and then he's going back into the
pattern again so you want to keep that little subtle nuance in there if you
want to play it exactly like Vinnie Paul did on that song that's at 90 BPM it is
really challenging to play at the track speed which is at 130 bpm and if you
want to see more I've got a playlist over here with a bunch of drumming
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