{"id":29624,"date":"2021-07-23T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=29624"},"modified":"2023-05-31T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:27:59","slug":"how-to-play-drums-like-alex-van-halen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-play-drums-like-alex-van-halen\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play Drums Like Alex Van Halen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vxFhrGEq-xw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alex Van Halen is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/top-20-rock-drummers\/\">one of the greatest drummers in rock history<\/a>. From unpredictable syncopation to groundbreaking hybrid electronic-acoustic drumming, he set the stage for many of today&#8217;s heavy hitters.<\/p>\n<p>In this quick video, Brandon breaks down a few reasons why Alex Van Halen is a straight up genius. For example, &#8220;Panama&#8221; is tougher than it looks, and doesn&#8217;t start right on beat 1. With the guitar riffing all over the bar line, you hear a lot of syncopation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/hot-for-teacher-drum-lesson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Hot For Teacher&#8221;<\/a> features Alex&#8217;s signature double bass shuffle. According to his producer, the first five seconds come from an idling Lamborghini engine before blending into the drums, and that&#8217;s why the timing sounds so off!<\/p>\n<p>Recognize the kit in the video above? Brandon has done his best to recreate Van Halen&#8217;s legendary setup from the <em>Fair Warning<\/em> era, Simmons<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/unboxing-1985-tama-techstar-electronic-drum-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> electronic drums<\/a> and all.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also hear a quick rundown of key parts from &#8220;Jump&#8221;, &#8220;Unchained&#8221;, and &#8220;Why Can&#8217;t This Be Love&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this is now an Alex Van Halen stan page, and we aren&#8217;t ashamed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to play some of Van Halen&#8217;s most memorable beats in under 10 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":29651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29624"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31631,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions\/31631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}