"What started out as a plan to record a few songs in pro quality for promotional purposes ended up being this double dvd, filmed and recorded at Monongo Studios in Berlin, Germany. When I approached ROAX films about it they suggested I do a full-fledged instructional dvd. It was not my original plan but after thinking it over and coming up with a concept I thought I'd give it a shot.



It also had to do with the fact that I'd been teaching for quite a few years and knew I had something to offer to a wide variety of levels of players. I hope you can take something from these DVDs and apply it to your playing in your own personal way.



With today's recording methods it's very common that certain programs/software are used to improve or fix someone's playing; it's standard procedure. I wanted this DVD to be "old school" in the sense that there was not one note I played that was moved or quantized. Nor were there any samples used. I wanted the listener/viewer to hear and see how I play naturally and how the drum kit sounds acoustically. Every single drum note you hear played on this DVD was played by yours truly, from start to finish"

- Randy Black





Disk 1 Includes:



•Basic rudiments on the practice pad

•Advice to young drummers

•Hand grip and technique

•Stretching and stick tricks

•Applying various rudiments on the kit

•Hi-hat foot technique

•Independence exercises/moving accents

•Various fills and rhythms from Randy's recordings

•Crossovers

•Applying different styles to metal music

•Tools of the trade

•3 solos - pad/studio/live

Disk 2 includes:



•Documentary/Interview

•Drum performance of 7 songs:

•Seven Seals/Primal Fear

•Hit You Harder/Skew Siskin

•Blood On Your Hands/Primal Fear

•Heart Of A Brave/Primal Fear

•Blackened Beauty/Marcus Forstbauer

•A Promise From Underneath/DuskMachine

•Cold Blooded/Annihilator (Cover Version)