{"id":37286,"date":"2022-09-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=37286"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:37:09","slug":"why-great-drummers-are-better-than-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/why-great-drummers-are-better-than-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Great Drummers Are Better Than The Rest Of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NytoVCy7cA4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/fusion-drummer-attempts-metal-larnell-lewis-enter-sandman-metallica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larnell Lewis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/sarah-thawer-super-mario-medley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sarah Thawer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/mark-guiliana-drum-solo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Guiliana<\/a> have in common?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re all great drummers. But what makes them so great? Why do they sound so good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this quick video, Nate Smith (aka &#8220;The 80\/20 Drummer&#8221;) explains how note placement is a key reason top drummers sound better than the rest of us. And you don&#8217;t have to be &#8216;born with it&#8217; to learn how to improve where and how you hit the drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nate shares his favorite analogy about note placement and shows you a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/metronome-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">metronome exercises<\/a> to improve your timing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great drummers sound so great because of the accuracy of their note placement. Here are some metronome exercises to help your timing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":37299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37286"}],"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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37286"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37297,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37286\/revisions\/37297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}