Drum Teacher Reacts to Meytal Cohen - Meytal - Hydra - Episode 25

[Music] what's happening everybody I'm Steve and welcome back to junk drummer TV where I give my initial reactions my analysis and my hot takes on the drummers of today and yesterday and maybe tomorrow if I stick around that long I'm a professional drum teacher and Aggie musician and I have been for the last 20 years on today's episode we're gonna be watching mate all Co and playing with her band mate all now comments-section before you blow up I found out how you actually say it we've all been saying at me tall but I've checked out an interview and it's actually said mate all so don't want to hear it from you commenters miss Cohen has a very 21st century story of how she became famous she became famous being a youtuber I found out about her cause I was teaching chop suey and it was a section in there and I couldn't remember or couldn't figure it out and I searched for you know chop suey drum cover and she came up being someone who has been in a few different bands who have kind of operated on the outskirts of the music business and someone whose had been on more than one conference call with record label types it's so refreshing to see someone take their career in their own hands and not have to depend on a traditional music business record label ANR tight road and just skip all that and go straight to YouTube I admire her for that big time again she started out as a cover drummer there's a lot of really good ones on YouTube right now Luke Hall and Matt McGuire especially for me she kind of seems like the first one maybe because she's first one that I noticed later on I will be giving a hot take about the importance of learning covers no four note like she did with all that being said please feel free to like comment and share give me a double tap on the subscription and the notification bell and let's get into it [Music] yeah playing kind of a tricky thing right here playing eighth notes with the right hand and running triplets underneath that's a little tricky actually that's a little bit more than just tricky [Music] we had such a beautiful technique man that's that's a cool groove man okay so I use videos of her her and Steve Smith specifically when I'm trying to show students what good technique and what good movement around the drumset should look like she's like water like Bruce Lee said be like water she's so fluid and relaxed and the way that you address hitting the drums and moving around the drum set that affects the way that you sound that affects the the sound of your groove the more relaxed you are the better you're going to sound and she is a beautiful example of that she's probably the first drummer that we've had on the channel that has a few different ways that can kill you she's Israeli and like all Israelites they have to be in the military for two years so this Cowan can probably kill you and probably kick your ass cool not a big fan of this song it's to radio rock for me here right here when I'm teaching my double bass students it can become very easy to want to play that double bass every time right here you know she's playing like just you know straight sixteenth notes and that's slow enough that you can play that with one foot yeah one of the songs I teach is a song by coheed and cambria called welcome home and there's a section in there that goes you know one and two and three and four and plenty hanjo 2d and 3d and 14 and I've had some double bass students come in and try to play that with two feet you should have the chops in one foot to be able to do something like that [Music] yeah man the way that she she moves the drumsticks and hurt her relaxed yeah man she's a good drummer yeah that fat eighth notes on the right hand and that triplet underneath there that takes some pretty big independence I like right there this is another instance of what I call perceived odd time this is in 4/4 where she's playing that snare drum on the hand right there and then playing it on the three the next you know it's a half time groups you playing the hand of two the first measure and on the three the next it gives it this this perceived odd time but it's not [Music] yeah the way this man I love the way that he hits the drums she's proof I've had a few students over the years that they've kind of perceived themselves as being small and they kind of try to overdo their power to kind of make up for their for their lack of stature man she's tiny she's little and she plays with a lot of power you don't have to be Danny carry or Brann Dailor who are both like you know six-four six-five to get a lot of power you know Conor McGregor's not a big dude he's like five seven five eight weighs 145 pounds we don't knock your head off it's about technique and muscle development the power doesn't come from the bicep it comes from down here and you don't have to be this gigantic person to play powerfully I mean Lars Ulrich isn't very big either she's tiny she's you know guys she looks me five two five three and she's getting power you don't have to over you don't have to over hit to get power and she's got a really good whoever's running her her mixing board to get these drum sounds and drum sounds sounds great [Music] yeah just to radio rock [Music] this is a good time to start that hot take again all of us there's got to be tons of people who are gonna click on this who are already made tall fans she rose to prominence being a cover drummer and that is a that's a that's some education time kids I think it's so important when you're first starting out to learn other people's parts here's my story about that Hunter s Thompson is my favorite author Hunter S Thompson on many interview said that when he was a young writer he would reproduce he would type out whole Hemingway novels he would sat down and he would read the novel when he would write it and he would say I wanted to reproduce those those combination of words to see what it was what it would feel like and if you know anything about Hunter s Thompson you know he has a lot of Hemingway in his writing I think that works for musicians as well especially when you're first starting out that's something I do with all of my students I've got about 40 or 50 cover songs I make pretty much all of my students learn if you're one of my students watching you've probably played a bunch of them already and I think it's so important when you you know you don't really know who you are as a musician yet and you're still working on your coordination and you just still still working on getting to a style play the drum parts of the greats learn John Bonham songs learn dave grohl songs learn Neal Pierce songs and then you can take those influences and that's what's going to make your style you know I always say this and I think I heard I think it was Buddy Rich you said it a good musician doesn't get caught stealing I can tell you where everything in my playing and all the records that I've made I can tell you what influenced that and I think that's so important as a beginner musician to learn covers like this and that's what she's done and you can see the culmination of it she's you know go on her channel she's got hundreds and hundreds of videos of her doing these just note-for-note perfect representations of these songs reproductions of these tunes and you can see where it got her now and now she has her own style it's so important I think to learn covers at the beginning of your music career that being said like now that I've been doing this for all really don't do it anymore but I think it's so important to start out that way another thing about her is she didn't start playing until she was 18 she's a late bloomer I don't know how old she is she doesn't look very old I mean she hasn't been playing all that long I had a commenter the other day and she said you know she loves drums and she wishes that she would have started earlier and I sent a a comment back to her yeah this song is wack but the drums are great but I sent a comment to it back to her I when she sent that comment I was in a lesson with a 72 year old student it's never too late to learn she didn't start when she was like 10 or 12 she started she was 18 and look where she's at now it's almost like a almost like a drum and bass groove right there yeah you can just tell she just played so many songs but it's now informed the way that she plays her technique is so beautiful yeah man what's his song was better because these drums are kick-ass yeah oh yeah yeah man I wish this wasn't so I finger death punch or whatever this man is drum parts so badass that the way she stopped right there I love that she stopped the you know when we do a drum fill we go to a you know and we hit to a stop we almost always hit the one if you notice when she did that she stopped on the the UH or one or maybe the last text up but before the one so it's a cool move [Music] yeah always using that left foot you know she's not playing the hi-hat right there but you see right there in the corner you can see that she's you know still giving herself that quarter note in the in the left foot the more limbs that you have in the better the more solid your times gonna be yeah man damn dude she's so good I wish that song wasn't so bad mate all : she's a great example of doing it for yourself man she didn't stick around and hope for some a in our person to think that your band was cool enough to you know you know make a king she went out and did it on her own she made her made her way being a cover drummer on YouTube now she's got her own band she's touring and she's doing her own stuff that's a that's wonderful man I love that through her channel she was able to get endorsements and fans then she started a bands got a band together and you know she has fans now and she did that her own way as a 90's guy which was kind of the beginning of the DIY scene laughs you know the 80s as well think like Black Flag and stuff like that but I love it DIY don't the you don't need a corporate overlord to to tell you that you can be famous she did it on her own miss may talk Owen thank you very much you've made a lot of my lessons a lot easier over the years when students would bring in songs she helped me with all my life by Foo Fighters too when students bring in stuff and I can't figure it out right off the bat and I she's the first channel that I go to to so I can see what parts going on so may talk oh and man go to her a youtube channel and subscribe so again if y'all like that please feel free to like comment and share give me a double tap on the subscription and there too and the notification bell and remember if you want to be like miss Cohen you got to keep practicing until it's easy

Channel: Junkdrummer TV

Views: 95,975

Rating: 4.847981 out of 5

Keywords: Meytal Cohen, Meytal, Hydra, Drum Teacher Reacts, Drum Lesson, Analysis, Drum Analysis, Drum Teacher, Steve, Junkdrummer

Id: JjXjjwuUDZs

Length: 13min 28sec (808 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 17 2019