Metallica's Battery 🤘 Funky Drummer's $50 check story 💸 Weckl warmup

@Yamaha Drums (Official)

Dave Weckl warming up is a masterclass disguised as a casual moment, and this Yamaha clip captures why he remains essential viewing for any drummer chasing real time and feel. Whether you are still learning to lock in or you have been on the kit for decades, Weckl's command of phrasing, dynamics, and metronomic precision is the standard so many fusion and session players measure themselves against. Worth rewatching slowly.

@CARLIN MUCCULAR

Carlin Muccular drops into a Skrillex track and turns the producer's chaos into pocket, threading drum hits through the kind of bass wobbles that usually swallow live players whole. The two-time Grammy nominee makes the EDM-meets-drums crossover look easy, which is exactly why the reel is worth the 30 seconds.

@Greyson Nekrutman

Greyson Nekrutman, the trad-grip phenom now manning the kit for Sepultura, turns his attention to Metallica's "Battery" in a reel that's racked up over half a million views. Watching a swing-schooled player attack Lars Ulrich's thrash gallop is the kind of stylistic crossover that makes the clip pop. Worth thirty seconds of your scroll.

Gideon Waxman lines up seven heavyweight kick mics in a 31 second shootout: the Shure Nexadyne 2, Sennheiser e902, AKG D112 MKII, Audix D6, Earthworks DM6, Shure Beta 52A, and Sennheiser e602 II. It's a who's who of studio and live rigs, from the D112's scooped midrange thump to the Earthworks DM6's flatter, more honest condenser response.

The clip has pulled over 5 million views for a reason. Hearing the Beta 52A and e902 back to back on the same drum, same room, same hit cuts through more debate than any spec sheet. Worth A/B'ing on decent headphones before your next tracking date or stage build.

NimbleNest's stainless steel practice sticks are exactly what they sound like: solid metal batons, 15.7 inches long and weighing in around 1.3 pounds for the pair, designed strictly for the practice pad. The pitch is old-school strength training. Run your rudiments and warm-ups with these, then pick up your 5As and watch them feel like toothpicks.

Reviewers back up the premise. One marching player noted Vic Firth Corpsmasters felt "crazy light" after ten minutes on the metal, and another reported real gains in finger control and left-hand balance within two weeks. They run $38.49 and ship with a carrying sleeve. Fair warning printed right on the listing: keep them off acoustic drums and cymbals unless you want to redecorate your kit.

Drumble hands Carlton Wilcox, Kwesi Robinson, and Skeet Dabeat a drumless track of Evanescence's "Going Under" and tells them to write the part cold. Three drummers, three completely different reads: one chases the groove, one cranks the energy, one rewrites the song's center of gravity entirely. Then they hear the original for the first time and confront how far off, or how close, their instincts landed.

What makes the 31 minutes worth sitting with is the post-take analysis and the redemption round. Carlton and Kwesi both go back in after hearing the real drums, and watching a drummer revise their own choices in real time, knowing what the part "should" be, is a quiet lesson in taste, restraint, and how much of arrangement is really just listening.

Clyde Stubblefield walked into a Cincinnati studio on November 20, 1969, cut a 20-second break with James Brown, and walked out with a $50 session fee. That groove, "Funky Drummer," went on to anchor more than 2,000 songs and become the structural DNA of hip-hop, while Clyde himself saw almost none of the money.

In this 17-minute Drumeo deep dive, Brandon Toews unpacks why the beat hit so hard (the ghost notes, the breathing hi-hat, the human push and pull no drum machine has cleanly cloned) and walks through the heartbreaking business side that left one of the most influential drummers in modern music chronically underpaid. Worth sitting with for the playing lesson and the cautionary tale alike.

Pascal at ArtOfDrumming devotes an entire video to one of the most quietly frustrating jobs in the kit: getting toms to actually sing. It's part two of his three-part Drum Tuning Crash Course, picking up after head installation and walking through the choices that decide whether your toms thud, ring, or open up into something musical.

The lesson worth carrying to your next head change is that tom tone is a system, not a single tuning sweet spot. Batter and resonant pitch relationships, head choice, and how you seat and stretch new heads all stack up before you ever reach for a tuning key in earnest. Block out an afternoon, pull your toms off the kit, and treat tuning as practice rather than a pre-gig scramble.

That Swedish Drummer offers up a 38-second beginner warmup worth stealing for your own routine. The clip distills the kind of low-stakes, hands-and-feet coordination prep that tends to get skipped when you sit down eager to play songs, but it's exactly what builds the consistency beginners need before tempo and dynamics enter the picture.

If you teach beginners, or you're one yourself, queue this up before your next session and run it cold. Even experienced players benefit from a deliberate minute of slow, controlled motion to wake up the wrists and ankles before pushing into harder material. Short, repeatable, and easy to memorize, which is the whole point of a warmup that actually gets used.

Drum Beats Online drops a 42-second drill aimed squarely at the problem every right-handed player knows too well: a left hand that drags behind the right. The fix in this short is simple in concept, brutal in practice — isolate the weak hand, lead with it, and force it to carry the pattern your dominant hand usually bails out.

Eight-plus million views suggest the diagnosis lands. Spend a minute on it before your next practice session: run your warm-up singles, doubles, and paradiddles starting with the weak hand only, at a tempo where the stroke heights actually match. The goal isn't speed today, it's evening out the voice between your two hands so the groove stops leaning.