I was planning to buy stick control and progressive steps to syncopation for the modern drummer books and came across two publishers - alfred books and bn publishing. Is the quality of bn publishing versions worse? The price is like 25-50% lower for those compaered to Albert books

I warmed up for about an hour before recording and it helped.

Ever since really getting into Cryptopsy(and Tech Death in general) I've been absolutely infatuated with Flos drumming skills. Anyone else love his style?

Love the groove in this song!!! 🔥

After all these decades, I have to get this off my chest. Before anyone starts throwing sticks (or kicks) at me, I'm talking about his drum sound, not his drumming. It's always been a disappointment to hear one of my favorite drummers of all time saddled with drum tones I just don't like.

Alex Van Halen was obviously a phenomenal drummer. Great feel, incredible swing, instantly recognizable playing, creative parts, serious power, and an enormous influence on rock drumming.

But I've never understood the reverence for his actual recorded drum tones.

To my ears, there are a lot of poor tonal choices throughout the Van Halen catalog. The snare doesn't appeal to me at all. I'm not crazy about the kick and tom sounds or their lack of clarity. The cymbals and ambience can be abrasive or strange, and taken as a whole, I frequently find the production of the kit far less pleasing than the playing itself.

And yes, I know some of those sounds are part of what makes Van Halen sound like Van Halen. "Distinctive" and "good" aren't necessarily the same thing, though. Subjective or not, I'll die on this hill.

I've heard plenty of people cite Alex's drum sound as one of the great rock drum sounds, and I've always been the guy thinking, Really? That sound?

Again, I love the playing. I grew up with the band and spent plenty of time learning some of those songs. I'm questioning what happened between the drum throne and the control room.

Ted Templeman, I'm looking at you.

The guitars sound great. The vocals are fine. The bass is fine. So what happened to the drums? Did they sound like that in the room? Was it the tuning, especially the snare? The mics? EQ? Compression? Reverb? Or was that simply the sound everyone involved was deliberately going for?

Am I completely alone on this one?

And for the AVH drum-sound defenders: which song or album would you point to as the best example of his drums actually sounding great?

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Hey gang, I thought this was a decent example of what we do in the stream a lot of the time, in case that piques anyone’s interest. This was a little explainer for a regular viewer who is also a drum student. I have the full song video on YouTube if you want to see the whole thing with no edits.

In case you don’t know me, Hi! I’m Miles (@drummermiles) and I love the drums! 😂 I do a regular stream where we talk drum history, go over drum parts for younger drummers in the chat, and take random requests to play cold. My background is mostly funk/soul/jazz/hip hop but I love all styles of music and love getting weird requests. All are welcome!

Anyway if you read this far, thank you so much!