hello and welcome back to another
episode of my drum teacher react series
my name is Marthyn Jovanovic I'm a drum
teacher and today I'm gonna be reacting
to and analyzing a live drum cam video
from Trey Williams drummer of Dying Fetus
playing their song your treachery will
die with you before we start off I want
to give a big shout out and thank you to
rafal from drummers from hell their
YouTube channel is amazing so make sure
to check that channel out as well you
can find it down there in the description
alright let's start
alright I have to stop right away the
first crash fill would be really easy to
play with right hand and left hand but
he chose to play just with his right
with his right hand
amazing
all right let's focus on his hand
technique for a bit he's using
mostly wrists and American grip so not
French
thumbs up not German grip but in-between
American grip
okay before we focus on his foot
technique because actually he's using
three different techniques regular heel
up
heel toe technique and the swivel
technique right now he's using the heel
toe technique let's talk about his pedal
settings and his gear a bit he is one of
the drummer's the many drummers who is
using Axis a long boards as you can see
in this picture vdl is around the middle
he's using a medium to high spring
tension and you can also see that he's
using a roland acoustic trigger you can see it
on the left side of the video and his
bass drums is stuffed with pillows which makes
triggering easier and one more thing
he's using axis a marksman they're
called marksman beaters and the cool
thing about these beaters is that the
beater shaft is extremely heavy in
comparison to the beater head so they have
a certain specially unique feel so
make sure to try them out as well by the way
I'm not endorsed by axis I just like
these beaters
all right we have to stop again now he's
using this swivel technique let's
talk about his swivel technique for a
bit I watched this video over and over
again and it seems like he's swiveling
with his right foot he swiveling out for
the first stroke and in for the second
stroke his left foot is doing the same
thing just the opposite way around so
his left foot his left ankle is
swiveling out for the first stroke and in
for the second stroke his foot is
sliding a bit back on the footboard when
he starts to swivel in comparison to the
regular when he plays regular heel up
and this is at the tempo of now
we're playing at 225 BPM so he's using
the swivel technique at that tempo
okay now let's talk about his heel toe
technique right here you can see that
his foot is sliding back on the
footboard when he starts to use the heel
toe technique so actually the heel of
his foot is not touching the footboard
when his playing
heel-toe looks something like this I've
seen a lot of drummers who do it the
other way by that I mean that their
whole leg is placed on their foot board
like this and a lot of drummers use it
the other way sliding the foot back like
trey does it in this example if you
slide your foot back like this your heel
is not generating the first stroke
actually it's the middle part of my foot
that's generating the first stroke and
my toes or the ball of my foot are
generating the second stroke again
comparison to sliding your foot up on
the footboard like this alright let's
continue
again to fill played with just one hand
now he's playing regular heel up the
tempo is around 160 beats per minute he's
using a mix of hip flexor and calf
muscles but it looks like it's mostly
hip flexors looks like this the one
thing that's really awesome is that it
doesn't even matter if trey is playing
the swivel technique heel toe or regular
heel up he's never leaning forward
or back when he starts or stops the bass
drum pattern he looks totally relaxed
and always in control
that's also interesting tempo is around
160 BPM first when he played sixteenth
notes
he played regular heel up single
strokes then he switched when the
subdivisions changed to 16th note triplets
at 160 BPM he started to use this swivel
technique 16th note triplets at 160 BPM
is the same tempo as regular 16th notes at
240 bpm so from what I've seen from his
videos is that he starts to use the
swivel technique around 200 BPM and up
to 250 to 260 and even faster
you can see that he is using the push
some sort of push pull technique with his
right hand but the left hand he's just
playing regular wrist motion on the
hi-hat
Now he's using the heel toe technique it seems
that he is able to play extremely fast
with the swivel technique and with the
heel toe technique but he tends to use the
heel-toe technique when he has to play
for longer periods of time for shorter
stuff like 1 bar of fast double bass he
always uses the swivel technique for
longer periods of time he tends to use
the heel toe technique
he's getting a big beater swing out of
the heel toe technique as well
swivel technique again
Now he's playing for two bars of fast
double bass and he immediately switches
to the swivel technique and also the
transition is really smooth between
regular heel up and the swivel technique
now the tempo changed around from 225
bpm down to 200 bpm and he's able to
play a flawless transition from 225 to 200 BPM while still using the swivel
technique let's look at this one again
again using the swivel technique and really
sitting straight not leaning forward
 
yeah now he's using the gravity blast with
his right hand on the snare drum the
thing is and you can hear it in the video
that it is extremely hard to play loud
with the gravity blast so right now his
snare sounds kind of his snare drum
sounds kind of weak in comparison to the
regular blast beat because with the
gravity blast  you can't hit that
hard with this small kind of motion
in comparison to a full wrist motion which
he uses all the time if he's not doing
gravity blast of course you would have
the alternative to use a snare drum
trigger but who wants that right all
right a great video I know I had to talk
a lot during this video and I had to
stop it really often because his
technique is just amazing like three
different foot techniques regular heel
up extremely tight swivel technique
extremely tight and the heel toe
extremely tight great hand speed a lot
of power and also using the gravity
blast in between so thanks a lot to Trey
Williams to Dying Fetus to rafal from
drummers from Hell alright that's it for
this video thank you very much for
watching don't forget to comment below
if you want a certain drummer to be next
on this youtube channel cheers from
vienna bye
