How to Play System of a Down's "Toxicity" on Drums

In this video, we teach you how to play System of a Down's Toxicity by breaking it down and explaining each part. Did you know that you can sign up for a FREE 30-minute LIVE Drum Lesson with Jeremy? The best part is that it doesn't matter what part of the world you are in since we use a program that is like Skype, except better and perfect for our Jam Session! Want to jam out? Visit www.e7musicschool.com to sign up for your free Drum Lesson Table of Contents: We make it easy to learn how to play this song on the drums! Click on the specific time stamps below to skip straight to the part of the lesson that you want! PART 1 Quick run through of what we will be teaching for this drum lesson... 0:16 - For this song we need to learn how to count in "sixes" so that we know when to count the intro without the drum and know exactly when to come in. 0:55 - Play through the intro to see how it'll sound and counting when the drums come in PART 2 Breaking down the song into each part SECTION 1 1:40 - 1st we will crash with the bass drum followed by some flams 2:52 - 2nd we learn how to play the 1st fill pattern 3:15 - 3rd we do a single stroke 5-stroke roll 3:37 - We put these 3 parts together and play the drums without music and then play it with music SECTION 2 4:10 - After the fill we play the next pattern where we introduce a "ghost snare" or quiet snare hit 6:33 - We put it all together and play this section of the drumming part SECTION 3 6:40 - We play it through and introduce the 2nd fill pattern 7:16 - This drummer tends to play fills by leading with his left hand and this will be the easiest way to learn this. It will be more difficult to play it with the right-hand because you risk having your sticks hitting each other. It is possible and we explain the option of how to play it right handed. 10:34 - Put everything up to this point together with music at full speed SECTION 4 10:57 - The tom drum part is going to be played like this 12:12 - Putting it all together up until this point SECTION 5 12:45 - How to play the very last fill PART 4 Playing the entire lesson from beginning to end with music 14:15 - Playing the entire thing one last time with everything we've learned and putting the drums together with the music