{"id":7285,"date":"2017-09-11T09:09:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2023-03-05T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T23:23:36","slug":"derek-roddy-blast-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/derek-roddy-blast-beats\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Roddy&#8217;s Blast Beat Technique (Slo-Mo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2A8psfS7-vA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re going to take a look at Derek Roddy&#8217;s blast beats&#8230; in slow motion! Derek is known for his lightning-fast speed drumming, so being able to dial it right back and take a look at his technique will help us understand how he&#8217;s reaching those top speeds.<\/p>\n<p>On his right hand, Derek uses a push-pull moeller motion that&#8217;s mostly driven from the shoulder, but his wrist is adding a whipping motion to help with maintaining momentum. On his left hand, he uses a relaxed grip and takes full advantage of the rebound the snare drum provides. Contrary to his right hand, most of the power in these strokes is coming from his wrist.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that once he gets to really high speeds, he&#8217;ll place his index finger on top of the drum stick. If he can&#8217;t hear himself in his own personal mix, it mutes the drum stick and raises the overall pitch of the snare which produces a more clear, defined sound.<\/p>\n<p>We have a full course on all of the popular blast beats by Derek Roddy over in the Drumeo members area. <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/trial\/\">Get started with a 7-day free trial<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to take a look at Derek Roddy&#8217;s blast beats&#8230; in slow motion! Derek is known for his lightning-fast speed drumming, so being able to dial it right back and take a look at his technique will help us understand how he&#8217;s reaching those top speeds. On his right hand, Derek uses a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":10114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4027,4018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hand-technique","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10353,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions\/10353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}